Great mod ;). Surely have to say hats off to you and your good work!

Check out the code, it's not that difficult. if I can do it, you can too!

This is a sad addition.. Very disapointed.

Finally I can make my forum look busy :D

I understand where it could be useful Floris. We both know though that this is just another tool for newbies to jump into the mix and pretend to be larger than they are, thus attracting more members because they look more active than the site actually is.

Many of us have had our sites up for years and everything that went into it was old school. We had to earn the respect of our members and our activity is genuine and has been processed with old fashioned work. lol Nowadays people can just toss a site up, and immediately they are competing with the next guy who has been around for a few years.

One of my smaller sites has roughly 20,000 posts. I could use a feature like this to boost the numbers up to 200,000 and change the cookie as well....but that isn't what I am about. I guess my issue is a moral one. My sites don't have a large number of competitors as I deal in some very specific fields. It will affect those though that have a much broader topic.

Yes, mods that help new site owners to cheat bother me. lol

Thankfully I disagree with you :)

I had a phbb site that ran for 3 years before I upgraded to vbulletin. (notice I said upgraded?)

The database was so big when I moved that I deliberately deleted all threads over a month old. This will make my statistics look closer to what they are supposed to be.

*installs*

Same here. I've pruned over 5 years worth of posts, largely because I previously used UBB. As a result, I don't qualify for Big Boards (admittedly, I'm not real concerned about that either). I won't actually be using this hack but can certainly see the justification behind doing so.

Good feedback people, keep it coming.

I had the same situation with moonclamp a while back, it's a shame this hack wasn't around back then. Nevertheless it's a fab little hack and will no doubt help alot of new forums.