"It's not botting, it's AFK training"

It's always been like this;

2006-2007, packet editing introduced, top 5% of players bought as much duped crap as possible

2008-2010, Used duped rare items for MTS, DC hacked for boss monopolies, had botter mules

2011-2012- quest exploits up the ying yang

And I haven't really paid much attention since then, but you get the idea.

oh, I totally agree. The game has always been riddled with cheaters, and probably always will be. It's quite a sad reality. :/
However, there's something about these people being on the official rankings with no repercussions at all that really bothers me. Mostly of the past cases have been rather hidden, or less obvious.
People who don't know any better take a quick look at the rankings and assume that these people are legit... and that's quite annoying.