Miscellaneous Hacks - Automatic Thread Closing

A new version is available from here. It is 3.7 but also works with 3.6 (and probably 3.8).

Hello guys this is my first mod!

Features:

• Forum immunity
• Option to close sticky threads or not
• Enable/disable hack
• Set timelimit
• All settings can be set in ACP
• Option to close thread after X amount of thread

Why?
I was getting tired of all those people necro-posting, posting in threads that are up to three years old. This is my solution

Time to install:
Less than one minute

History:
1.00 release
1.10 threadbit display closed
1.20 all settings through ACP
1.30 close thread after reply-count
1.40 bugfix
1.50 dunno what I did
1.60 added the feature to select whether you want the list of forum ids to either be the forums which's threads that should not be closed or the forums which's threads that should be closed

After billions of requests, I have finally done what you did!

Note
Don't forget to click Mark as Installed!

[ralle89]

I updated it now. Studied some hacks and I have now made a settings entry. You can edit everything through ACP now.

[stwilson]

Does this mod allow for identification of specific forums to apply the auto close to or is it the whole board?

[YabbaDabba]

Hi,

I'm looking for an auto-close after N posts.

Any plans to support such a feature?

[dope15gd]

Originally Posted by ralle89

I updated it now. Studied some hacks and I have now made a settings entry. You can edit everything through ACP now.

very cool. I'm gonna check this out

edit//

The time unit is from when I start the hack or from when the thread was started?

[dope15gd]

Originally Posted by stwilson

Does this mod allow for identification of specific forums to apply the auto close to or is it the whole board?

It applies to the whole forum, but you can select forums to exclude.

[ralle89]

Originally Posted by dope15gd

The time unit is from when I start the hack or from when the thread was started?

let's say I select months and 3 = 3 months. The thread will be closed 3 months after the last reply to it.

Originally Posted by YabbaDabba

Hi,

I'm looking for an auto-close after N posts.

Any plans to support such a feature?

I can easily add it to the mod.

EDIT: I added that now

[EdQ]

Been waiting for this. Does it notify the members the thread was auto-locked?

[ralle89]

you mean PM? No,
And they can't see that it was autolocked or normally locked

[giovannicosta]

This is not nice...I thought it would close thats 1 month after the last post, but it closes threads 1 month after they were created, anyway to get this to work for x time after last post?
Also can you get it to posta message saying this thread was auto-locked and the reason?

[EdQ]

Originally Posted by ralle89

you mean PM? No,
And they can't see that it was autolocked or normally locked

Not in a PM. But in the last post.

On another forum I use, the last post says

This thread has been Auto Locked for exceeding its limit for number of replies. Please start a part 2.

Without some notification, I will get bombarded with "why was the thread locked"