[HydraulicJack]

Originally Posted by JohnBee

I am also looking for this! Can you share if you find a paid hack version as well?
I can't believe this does not exist as default in vbulletin. After you hit new posts it only makes sense to check off the irrelevant posts and choose 'mark as read' or am i just talking crazy here?

No brother, you are not talkin crazy in my book.

This business of the system automatically marking chunks of posts read as soon as I display them is like a runaway train!

...especially when there is likewise no pure date-range search, without requiring either a username or some keyword (thereby "dumbing down" from a full date-range search of ALL posts).

I may need to view a post n times b4 I decide to mark it read. I don't like it at all that that option is not available on the Forum Flagship of the Web (vb! - ??).

IMHO it's an example of overautomation - perhaps to protect against server loads on bigger dbs - but I think the Admin should have that control, not hard-coded OUT of the software.

It might make sense for tech supp forums where posts have a short half life, or are strictly current events, but for a Knowledge Base application, this megasux.

I want this as a feature for vB! Meanwhile if you know of any hacks I'd sure like to know about them.

vB development team: Are you listening???

Many Thanks!
HJ