topicKill - antibump of topic
 

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Installation Time: < 1 mins
Product: 1
File: 1
VB Version: 3.6.X


v1.01

• fixed threads actually getting bumped when killed lol...

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Gives you another option rather than deleting or closing you can kill the topic. Which will leave the topic there and open, but when someone responds to it, it will not bump the topic. So basically it just falls down the list.

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1. Install Product
2. Upload thread_killed.gif to forums/images/statusicons

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also this is a edit free mod :D

Now this is the best idea and hack ever...

im pretty sure i just fixed it, reinstall the product.

cool, looks like this may come in handy. nice work.

Nice work. *Installed*

Awesome! Great idea, CS! :D

doesnt work for me, a reply still bumps the thread to the top.

Hi

Really good idea. :)

I have installed a new unpatched 3.6.7PL1 vBulletin for testing this hack. I can't get this hack to work. I can kill the topic, but if any user answers, the topic get bumped to the top.


A question I have:
What happens if you do a counter update ( Rebuild Thread Information or Rebuild Forum Information )?


Regards,

Stoebi

Does not seem to work for me either. Pity, because this is a modification that really, really needs to be around and working for many forums, simply because typical moron internet culture lets unintelligent spam get popular.

I agree! This is an extremely useful and necessary modification! Really helps for "cleaning house!":)

@ Stoebi: Have you tried that? The rebuilding, I mean.

v1.01 - fixed the error that was letting topics still get bumped...

(lol didn't know that you couldn't use vbulletin settings in the postdata_postsave or the threaddata_start hooks)

Very nice and useful hack.

should work fine, all this does is keep the lastpost time before the thread was killed.

Hi

Thank you for the update, this update works fine. :)

If you are going to do a Rebuild Thread Information, the toptic goes to the top, if the last poster is the actual one of this topic, and all existing threads.

Another little bug:
The FORUMHOME displays this thread as actual if the poster answered to this topic, but the topic was killed before.


Regards, Stoebi

Could you make it a per section option (kill an entire section)? That would be a huge advtange on boards with daily announcements (news, daily image sets etc). Thay way newest threads stay on top!

<i>I did it that way using the moderator column.</i>

Yes, but won't you have to edit each new thread and set it to 'kill"?

Hmm, yea im not sure how i would fix that.

you talking about the whole forum?

very interesting! good stuff

No, just a subforum. But forumwide wouldn't be a bad idea either ;).

Okay, IMHO it is not very important to fix this, because I do a rebuild after a vbulletin update only.

Yes, in FORUMHOME where you see all last actual threads per forum. IMHO a killed topic should not display on FORUMHOME, if a poster answered to a killed topic.

Regards, Stoebi

oh... yea thats an easy fix.

when i have a few ill fix it.

subforum is still a forum, it has a forumid.

testing it and also make it in another lang if it works.....

Thanks for the update, as this seems to finally work now.

*Installed*
by the way i translated it, and i hope you dont mind (DiDNT DELETE ANY THING only change the lang)

as with all my work you are free to change and distribute it only in the release thread.

That's what a member at my forum asked when I tested this out and explained why the topic would not be bumped up the topic list. And I think you should try and make that idea, the idea of giving users the choice to allow their post to count or not count in bumping the topic they're posting in. It would be great for those to then reply to topics they don't agree with and not end up raising the topic.

Where is the GIF?

I don't see it as a download in this thread.

-Raymond

Nevermind, just noticed that it was part of the screen shots.

-Raymond

Thanks for the hack.
I think a useful addition/addon/option would be to have a cron/scheduled task auto-kill based on either date of post or last reply after "X" days. Meaning lets say that a thread that has not had a reply after 30 days would be auto-killed and any further replies would not bump. But before that point would behave like normal. Right now I use an auto close hack that closes threads after 30 days of no replies but this would be better.

Thanks again.

Me say Thanks Too...

I do this the same way... auto close after 30 days... auto kill will be better...
Also, if it would be possible to make the thread become moderated after X days.... so only if mod approve the reply it will bump the thread, othewise mod makes it a kill thread...

great idea

wouldn't that be a bit hard on your mods?

like every response on a past thread the mod gets a message to approve.

currently the only thing i have in mind is to make a whole forum/sub-forum killed. (everything else seems like too much work lol)

huge problem (will with me)

i killed a thred and there are about 17 post in the thred.....
after 10 post there is a new page :confused: the problem is i cant see the second page....

im pretty sure this doesnt have to do with this mod.

i tried it in other forum (appserv) its shows me there is 3 pages in the forumdisplay but when i go inside it there are only 2 pages!!!!!

thanks for the great mod.

one thing i noticed is that anytime anyone posts to a killed thread, the thread still shows up on the forums homepage as the most recent thread. any chance this could be resolved in your next update?

thanks again.

Very interested in mod and its development keep it up!