Reporting AFK fishers and sea miners.

[iamreallysquall]

Here's how it should be:

You report
Staff comes.
Staff confirms that the person is afk gathering.
Staff asks if you had planned on killing/looting the offender.
You say "yes"
Staff takes any resource on the offender that he might have gotten afk at that location. (if the offender is fishing, for example, he would take all fish, fish steaks, footwear, leather, magic fish, maps, and mibs)
Staff allows you to kill and loot the offender as you would have had they not been there. (except for the resources, of course)
Once you are finished, Staff takes the offender's ghost, boat, and all that's left to wherever.

Simple.

The whistle-blower still gets to kill and loot, but you are not allowing the offender to damage the economy.

exactly what should happen

[Spitfire]

Agree with Atraxi's approach. It's true, if a pirate gets the illegal loot that it still comes into the economy, but it only happens once, and the afk macroer is gone. It gives pirates an incentive to do the right thing, and the economy can certainly handle a couple hours worth of fishing loot.