Cross posting

[sianews]

bump

[mykes]

OK, I'm bumping this thread.

Why do you want cross posting?

Example from the board I operate, basketballboards.net.

We have a Bulls' forum and a Celtics' forum. A poster in the Bulls' forum wants to know if the Celtics would trade player X for player Y. This happens constantly (trade ideas). So the poster in the Bulls' forum makes the post and the thread appears in the Bulls forum. Only if a Celtics forum regular comes to the Bulls' forum will they see the thread and maybe reply.

With cross-posting, the Bulls' poster would create the thread in the Bulls AND Celtics forum. Replies to the thread would be seen in both forums.

The way vBulletin (3.0.6) is now, as an Admin or Community Mod, you can move/copy the thread from the Bulls' forum to the Celtics' one and leave a link in the Bulls' forum. Problem is, it just says "moved" next to the link in the Bulls' forum, but never shows "last poster" and "last post date" and "number of replies" and "number of views" in the Bulls' forum (it does in the Celtics one though).

Seems to me vBulletin has most of what's needed already with the ability to leave the "moved to other forum" bit of information in the original forum.

This hack is HUGELY beneficial, but also has the potential for abuse. For example, someone wants to spam the board, they can do so by cross-posting to every forum. So some limit has to be provided, say in admincp, to the number of forums a thread can be cross-posted to.

While at it, such a hack should allow the cross-posted threads to be made sticky in both forums.

I'm surprised this isn't a built-in feature. It's a pretty important thing for a site manager to be able to cross polonate between his/her forums, or to otherwise drive traffic to lesser traffic forums.