Wrong about what? If you’re using TSM, you’d better know exactly what items to go for and be using the standard interface.
I know all of that. I wasn’t making the case for the outcome intended, though. I was just using that as an example – and relatively recent at that – of a monopolistic large corporation being prosecuted for exhibiting monopolistic behaviour. Nothing more, nothing less.
The situation not changing is immaterial to the fact that the prosecution happened, which is what the post I replied to said never happens.
If nothing happened it’s hardly enforcement.
I’ve got a question. What kind of scan is Auctionator using if it’s not a replicate scan? People claim that sending an empty query isn’t doing what I think it’s doing but they also can’t explain how Auctionator is doing its scans. Either they’re wrong and don’t understand the code or the code isn’t doing what I think it is.
It has to be a blank scan.
Go to Source/Search/Mixins/CachingSearchProviderMixin.lua
Line 28.
Line 72 and 73.
There should be a social services option in game. If you stand at a mailbox and beg for gold long enough in trade an NPC will show up to ask you questions, evaluate your spending habits and put you on a budget along with a monthly standard set amount of gold that you can spend and aren’t allowed to surpass. This NPC will be a rude apathetic Broker who doesn’t care about your excuses or reasons and basically teaches you how to do something in game for the betterment of both community and self that you can translate into real life. And those two things are called earning and budgeting.
Oof. I’m not sure what Auctionator is doing there, at least not fully. What I can tell starting at line 25 is creating variables and tables to cache items, but that’s initializing for data that doesn’t exist yet. It’s defining variables and tables that will have data assigned later. Mostly creating an empty group that will have items added in the future.
Then it appears to handle events as the events are fired, starting on line 40. ... is what is known as a “vararg” or “variable argument” which some APIs and events provide. The code doesn’t know how many arguments (or parameters) could exist, so a vararg is used to catch between 0 and N amount of them.
Line 64 is caching the item results from the event handler at line 40. Line 72 is verifying the number of item results is not equal to 0, meaning there are truly item results from the search, and the results are valid and non-0, which would also include nil or empty, as they are non-0 as well.
Once verified, line 73 adds the item results to Auctionator’s pre-defined group (line 25), named resultsInfo.cache and information about the item(s) being cached. Once all the results are cached, stop hooking and listening to the caching event at line 80. Lines 89-92 are resetting the group if no valid cached results exist.
Lines 95-120 are creating the user input interface on the auction house frame, specifically a search input field. Lines 122-134 are parsing the cached results looking for item matches in the user list of items.
The rest is a little hard to understand, but looks like it is more clean up and validation of the previous data and functions.
In other words, an addon doing addon things 
player housing shouldn’t have access to banks or AH just for the very reason of people camping it.
Never underestimate the dire need some people have to brag about something. The need to brag can make some people really stupid. That’s one of the ways criminals in the real world get caught. 
It’s not hard hitting gold cap if you’re good at what you do. There’s no need to cheat to do it, and once you get a thing going, it becomes easier and easier to hit more gold caps.
I wasn’t necessarily saying they were cheating. Just saying that bragging about something does not mean they aren’t cheating.
Fair point. I like to take the “innocent until proven guilty” path though. It sucks being wrongfully accused.
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You think he’s got a long, hooked nose?
I smell a goblin.
Imagine being the guy holding all of those auction houses right now.
One mortal simply isn’t meant to hold that much power.
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They could though 
Especially if they prey upon dead RP realms. Things like this can start happening when you figure out how to actually make gold, and this is on one realm:
I think they’re just smart and have found a way to abuse something that isn’t intended in the api. If it wasn’t for this bug, they wouldn’t be able to run a sniper at this speed.
They should lower the gold cap to 200k
Life’s not fair. The same thing happens in real life. /shrug
It’s probably a current or former blizz employee with a backdoor into the development team.
That honestly would not fix any problems, perceived or real. All lowering the gold cap would do would lower the numbers. And doing so would create many, many, many, multiple problems compared to any fixes.
If you want an explanation, I’m sure anyone here could break it down for you; suffice to say, take 10 minutes and think about lowering the gold cap would do, its side effects, and issues caused, and you’ll see why lowering the cap is not possible.