The New Jokonomy

[Brista]

I just don't see it as a great solution from the perspective of the honest players who are told that, just because some sewage has gotten into their pool they are going to be flushed away to the sewage treatment plant (normal realms) with the crap.

OK, here are the problems:

1) large reserves of dupe items that (presumably) can't all be deleted
2) high level characters that got where they are by cheating resulting in the highest difficulties being populated by people who can't play. This is undesirable and demoralises more earnest players
3) high level builds that only operate in Cows, resulting in a lessened play experience

Here are the objectives:
1) An improved play experience for the earnest players who enjoy playing through the game as opposed to working an exploit
2) Provide legit players with continuity
3) That the service provider should have a method of restoring cheat free status at the touch of a button

Propose an alternative solution

So, I think you are underestimating the effect of ladder items flooding the normal economy.

I think they will drop more often and I think there will be a small amount of duping. But it's a question of scale. There are some 13 million BNet accounts worldwide (Based on the April 1 deletion of 131 000 being 1%). For at least 9 months finding out how to dupe has been easy for anyone who wanted to know and who had basic internet skills or simply asked in Channel
If 20 to 100 professional dupers figure out how to dupe the Ladder items and profit from it on EBay the numbers are tiny by comparison. After all, if they want to make money they can't let many others in on the secret
Is it an unreasonable assumption that duping will only become widespread after the people who figure it out have exploited it in secret for some time?
Depends, I guess, on how easy it is to work out

We shall see, it is of course possible that dupes will be everywhere and Blizzard will not re-set the Ladder, but that is a truly dreary prospect

To be honest I think that the ladder re-sets will settle down to a pattern and that this support will be available for a long time. As the game gets older Ladder re-sets make more sense because it's easier to flush the whole thing once in a while than to maintain an eagle-eyed vigilance 24/7 indefinitely