I don't know anything about options in a forum for something like this, but if possible I would like to see a "self-updating" auction feature. Basically you have an auction and it shows all the items for bid and instead of posting in the thread to bid you just click a box next to the item, type in your bid amount, hit accept, then it shows your name and bid amount next to that item until someone else pops in and bids higher. It could have a button where u can click and see everyone else's past bids, it can have a timer countdown next to each item when the auction ends and will automatically increase that time in a "10 minute rule" scenario based on the auctioneer's choice (no extension rule, 1 min, 2 min, 5 min, 10 min, whatever). I like stratics auctions but it is kinda annoying the way we do now, refreshing screens and scrolling bids and posting... all of which seems to me can be alleviated with this new feature. Be sorta like ebay, in a list form, with a bid button next to each item instead of each item having it's own page. Blah blah blah. Someone make it happen. I'm sure @BrianFreud would thank you.
Personally, I think there's a hundred other things for Stratics to focus on before making auctions easier to run becomes any kind of priority. lol