Random order of threads in sub forum

[the cynic]

Hi,

If anyone can point me in the right direction for this I would appreciate it.

I am going to use VB4 to showcase artists, and will be linking to the various artists in one of the sub forums. The idea is to have locked threads detailing each particular artist.

However, in order to be fair to the artists I would like to have the threads display in a random order each time somone views that particular forum.

So for example, user clicks on the sub-forum link and it has say 25 threads in that sub-forum, I want those 25 threads to be viewed randomly.

Is this possible ?

Thanks in advance for any advice

[Lynne]

Maybe a plugin using the forumdisplay_query hook location that just sets $sqlsortfield RAND() and $sqlsortorder to ''? (Never tried... try it on a test site.)