We tend to get issues from users who search for items to buy only to come across some player who puts up 1000+ of an item one at a time to sell. This seems to may cause havoc on the buy tab if someone wants to buy and it comes across that player's auctions.

Is it feasible to create a blacklist (much like how shopping lists are right now) of players on servers and exclude their auctions from a search. I do know they have expanded the owner of an auction argument to better be used in code.

I suppose it would go something like using GetAuctionItemInfo's owner return to check against a list. That said list would have to have error checking to just skip if not in the correct format.

I propose this as a rational solution to high pop realm throttling which seems to be plaguing our users.

Secondary option:

Add to blacklist from the buy results. For example... User BadAuctionSellerXXX has 2500 iron ore on the AH. This is completely complicating searching and buying. Auctionator will pick it up but there could be an issue with trying to buy from that source (stuck scanning and never being able to click buy).

Auctionator doesn't currently expose the owner name but if you could either right click or click and press (blacklist) it would add that player to the blacklist name. This would avoid having to add formatting to existing frames.

Tertiary option:

Limit returned buy search results for a given grouping to say 500 of a given owner's list of multiple auctions of the same item. This would ease load on the servers and keep user's from maybe having issues. Flag these truncated results with a color or asterisk or (showing x of xx) result. Not sure if this is feasible or even practical so it is my third option