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!

[white_2kgt]

Originally Posted by 2meplie

GREAT mod but I only want to enable it in my for sale and wanted section (about 10 forums) on over 180 forums. Would it be possible to have an include forum section instead of exclude?

Thanks!

Agreed. I want to use it for the same reason but I'm not going to sit there and enter in all but 2 form IDs. Also I'd probably forget about it and create a new forum down the road and bam, all of a sudden threads start getting closed.

I'll 'Install' when exclude is changed to include.

Thanks!
chad

[Marco]

Working great for me (3.6.7 PL1)! Awesome mod and just what I needed.

[patrickstar]

any way i could change the code and make it to hard delete the thread. i really could use something like this for my classifieds forum.

thanks for any help. very nice mod also.

[Feckie (Roger)]

Originally Posted by white_2kgt

Agreed. I want to use it for the same reason but I'm not going to sit there and enter in all but 2 form IDs. Also I'd probably forget about it and create a new forum down the road and bam, all of a sudden threads start getting closed.

I'll 'Install' when exclude is changed to include.

Thanks!
chad

Samo

[Gixxer33]

Very Great!!!!

Greets from Germany!

www.gsxr-freaks.de

[kyokushin4life]

Originally Posted by white_2kgt

Agreed. I want to use it for the same reason but I'm not going to sit there and enter in all but 2 form IDs. Also I'd probably forget about it and create a new forum down the road and bam, all of a sudden threads start getting closed.

I'll 'Install' when exclude is changed to include.

Thanks!
chad

agreed. include feature will help.

[kyokushin4life]

my another suggestion would be to add this feature for each forum so that each forum can have different settings.

[mgurain]

Hi ralle89,,
Could you add in settings: "include forums" field?
Because I would like to apply it only to certain forums, and now I need to exclude all other forums!

[Hostboard]

This is almost perfect (for me) Would you be able to include a move to forum option? For example auto close thread in 90 days if no posts are made and move to an "Archive" forum?

[ralle89]

It's an easy thing to implement. I just can't do it right now. I will do it when I get the time!