Official Thread Response.
 

If any of you have used the World of Warcraft forums, you've probably noticed that whenever a WoW staff makes a reply to a thread, a blizz logo icon is placed next to the thread, making it visible to everyone that an official response has been made in that thread.

Why its nice?
For gaming forums in particuler, where you are debating changes, fixes, and upcoming patches, it is very useful and nice to read and find out what the official developers are saying about the game and the user feedback. However it's not very fun reading 20 page threads, only to find out theres not a single official reponse in the thread anywhere...

So I ask... is it possible to make this work for VBulletin?

Easiest would be making it a usergroup option in admin panel, right?
Where you can assign a certain post-icon to certain usergroups, and this icon will be forced to show up on the thread if a member of that usergroup create the thread or replies in a thread.

Possible?

(Example from WoW forums: http://forums.wow-europe.com/board.h...Id=11090&sid=1)

Cheers for reading!

ADD:

VBulletin already use similar code, for example if a thread is popular it changes the statusicon of the thread.

All I want is that it does this if a user from a specified usergroup makes a reply in the thread or starts a thread.