They obviously don't ban people that purchase silk. After all, it does make logical sense... If you had a game, had to pay for servers, wouldn't you want to keep players unbanned if they were buying silk? Why keep non silk buying botters in the game when you could simply add it to the banned list so they can get their "atta-boy" from the silkroad.net forums? Yeah, its obvious what they are doing, I bought silk specifically not to get banned, so either you buy their bot, buy their silk, or get banned and suffer. It is unfortunate this way, but true. These things are the only things they make money from, so you have to concur. 500 Silk FTW! Also, lets face it, you would be really stupid if you banned a source of income, right?