Recently a lot of players have decided that waiting for a queue is beneath them and so they leave the game running and autorun in a back line area into a wall. This causes players who want to play in that BG not to be able to get into the area due to queueing. ArenaNet at one time patched WvW to prevent players from AFKing in spawn to "PIP down". This is the next evolution of that requiring some sort of intervention from ArenaNet. If not, it's possible to have a server with a guild who AFKs in the BG so that they can raid at their time causing casual players or others from getting access to those areas.
Code could be written so that these players don't have to be punished too hard. Perhaps AFK in one spot for so long, even when pushing another button or action, causes you to be moved back to Open World and out of WvW areas. Obviously someone trebbing a T3 keep may just be holding down a single button for a long period of time. This would be allowed, however players will probably exploit this and fire siege into a wall to stay in a BG for as long as they wish. Therefore the best way to solve this is with the participation counter... If a player hits 0 participation for a given amount of time, they should be kicked from battleground.
This is becoming an epidemic on servers. I counted more than 10 players doing this in a keep at one time this week. People in chat were even recommending it (SBI players are terrible to play with for the record), telling players how to avoid the queues by picking a BG, getting there and auto running when they needed to AFK. And it's not just short AFK spells. I've logged in, logged out, then back in again more than 10 hours later and saw the same player in the same spot, still auto running into a wall.
Please address this issue for the good of the game. ArenaNet already has the Mist War meters to help control this.
