This is actually in the wrong forum, so I'm moving it to Server Chat.
In any case, a simple forum search should have turned up the answers to your questions, as I've addressed them many times. I even posted something closely related about Chardok AE groups earlier today.
Bard swarming/AoE kiting/Whatever
is allowed so long as it doesn't violate this rule of the PnP:
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Originally Posted by Project 1999 Play Nice Policy (Server Rules)
8. You may not disrupt the normal playability of a zone or area.
Zone/Area Disruption is defined as any activity designed to harm or inconvenience a number of groups rather than a specific player or group of players. This includes, but is not limited to::
-Monopolizing most or all of the kills in an area.
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If you want to get really technical, particularly in dungeons, if another group/player wants to contest something a bard is killing, that bard has to pick one camp and stick to just that camp. In larger zones where "camps" are more loosely defined, if you feel a bard is taking up too much of the zone, not sharing, and not communicating with others, you should absolutely /petition. Normally we will ask the player in question to be more selective about what they are pulling and making sure that all the groups in the zone have enough mobs to pull.If it continues to be an issue that player will be remove from the zone.
It's much more important to us that new or returning players get to experience the content they had fun with 14 years ago, rather than a bard making his 4th alt trying to power level himself or others by AoE kiting everything in the zone. It's not something that's against the rules, however, so long as the bard(s) are being responsible with what they are pulling, and leaving plenty of mobs up for everyone.