Its a problem that's as old as the game though loramin, there isn't some easy to implement and enforce rule you can come up with to stop human nature. This stuff comes along with open world non-instanced content.
There's already been so many attempts to fix such behavior around raid content, and it just resulted in more and more rule minutiae that starts to feel more ridiculous than the problem behavior you're trying to curb.
The best way to combat any of this is in coding, which none of us expect to happen in the name of classic and that's fine if that's their priority for this project. We've already seen the best suggestions over and over, retroactively nerf the items to not drop from day one, or make them no drop, and/or state clearly from pre-launch that accounts will not move from green to blue ever. That last one is probably our best and most realistic hope right now to address this issue given our expectations about their intentions for the server's classic aspirations.
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