I can't speak for the whole playerbase. I'm sure that thread is filled with misinformation. But from what I remember, the real problem with the BDA thing is that there was a whole raid logged in and fighting halfway to Trakanon, and logs showed that a mob relatively close to Trakanon's lair had been killed recently. That's a huge difference from being camped at the zone in waiting for a coth. I think the rules allow for that difference.
Logically the zone in is what makes sense because it's the farthest you can reasonably be away from a raid mob, while still being in the same zone. Maybe, in theory there, are places that you can be which are still not in the vicinity of a raid target, but everyone just wants to play it safe and use zone in as the default. I think that's smart, and we should just make it an unofficial or maybe official rule.
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