[Freddie Bingham]

Originally Posted by Revan

Just my $.02:
I honestly did think that developers came here and used our hacks as inspiration (not to steal code, obviously they code their own), and therefore I thought "cool, my soft deleted archive got included. Would be cool to have gotten a PM about it tho." because seriously, how cool wouldnt it be to get an official PM stating that a hack concept you use is being included in the defauly vBulletin ^_^

I also coded the moderated/soft deleted threads feature. I didn't really think it warranted a high placement on the feature list but Kier wanted a global place to manage soft deleted threads. Our original plan was to merge the modcp into the admincp and make it all permissions based. We've since changed that plan to not allow moderators into the admincp to perform actions they currently do from the modcp. We are sure a fair number of complaints would be made about possible security breaches if moderators are allowed in the same code base as administrators.

I've always hated the modcp and thought that all of that stuff should be moved to the front end so the new plan is to merge the modcp into the user cp. The soft deleted feature was to go into the modcp but I suggested that we should put it in the usercp now and avoid having to move it in the future. I also suggested that we should add moderated threads since both features could share code base rather easily. I'm sorry to say but I wasn't aware there was a hack to manage deleted threads already.
So if there exists a hack to add moderator abilities into the mod cp, be forewarned, we aren't stealing it from you when 4.0 is released

Of course, many suggestions made to us at vbulletin.com stem from users using them first as modifications from this site so your code does serve as inspiration in a round about way for many features.