Promote any thread from any forum to front page?

[acitrano]

Hey all,

I am using vb 3.6.4 with vbPortal.

I am wondering what the simplest, most elegant way is to have a news-type system similar to what you see at http://www.appleinsider.com .. simply put, they seem to create an article, then the visitor opens the article and can click "comments" and is taken into the thread within the proper forum.

I assume they are creating a thread within the relevant forum and somehow flagging it as a news item or promoting it to display as a news article on the front page. I doubt they are creating an article, and separately creating a discussion thread for it, and manually creating the link between the two.

I know it's very simple to specify an announcement or top stories forum and those threads are always displayed on the front page in the relevant box, but in this case the "top news stories" are pulled from a variety of forums, and only a small number of threads from each forum are ever pulled to the front page.

This is probably simple/basic and I am overlooking how to do this. But any help and ideas would be appreciated.

So, in sum, is there a way to "promote" certain threads from wherever they sit - in any forum - to sit together and be displayed on the homepage? As I said I'm using vbPortal + vbulletin, so solutions / ideas with VB alone or with VB + VBP are welcome.

thanks all

Also, there is a thread about this over at the vbPortal site. Nitro doesn't seem to feel it's doable at the moment, but I await your ideas / feedback... thanks.