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!

[Marco]

There is a slight problem with this mod. When "closing" the thread, it always shows the icon that says you've posted in the thread, regardless if you actually have done that or not...

[kennethsia]

I cant seem to get well with this at the moment. When i activate it in the acp and test to open an active thread, thread display full blank page..

Any help is greatly appreciated.

[ralle89]

Are you using the newest version of vBulletin?

[kennethsia]

v3.6.5 sir, no immediate plans to update...

[coffee]

Installed and working great!

Thank you.

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Edit:
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when closing a thread that reached the maximum number of replies;
It would be nice to follow the next:

1. Close thread.
2. Create a copy of the first and last posts to be the next part of the thread.
3. Add a last reply with the link of the new part.

[Pocket Aces]

Great hack, i will definitely mark it installed and nominate to MOTM if only an include list is there as an option. On our case, include forum list is better than exclude forum list.

Is it possible to add an option to include forum list on this mod's next update? We only need this hack for auto-closing threads posted on our introduction and request forums. Including 5 forums is way practical than excluding 100+ forums.

[kennethsia]

Any answer from the author please?

[gim]

Hi from Italy!
If I use this plugin for close post, when I unistall or unpublich the plugin, the posts are automatically reopened?

[ralle89]

The threads are actually only virtually closed. So as soon as you disable or uninstall, all closed posts are open.

[ralle89]

I have uploaded the new version 1.60!