[Quarterbore]

This is not pretty but it will get you started, there are two templates you need to edit:

forumhome_forumbit_level1_post
forumhome_forumbit_level2_post

In each you need to:

FIND:

PHP Code:

        <td class="alt1">$forum[threadcount]</td> 


REPLACE WITH:

PHP Code:

        <td class="alt1">$forum[threadcount]<if condition="$show['member']"><br /><a href="$vboptions[bburl]/newthread.php?$session[sessionurl_q]do=newthread&f=$forum[forumid]"><img src="$vboptions[bburl]/images/addnew.png" alt="vbphrase[post_new_thread]" /></a></if></td> 


You can see it here:

http://www.vbclassified.com/index.php?

user: testuser1
password: test2_paswrord

No permissions checks but it works fine

I do think you would want to have permissions around this so that obviously would need to be done outside of the template.

I will leave this on my site for a couple days and then expect it to be removed.