Start new thread from here hack

Often I find that a topic gets a short way through then somene posts something which is nothing at all to do with the original topic and everyone goes off discussing this.

That particular discussion warranting its own thread and effectively killing the original topic. What I would like is an admin fuction to click on a post and make a new thread starting with that post and all the replies which follow it, admin would have to choose a thread title.

yeah i have found this happening too, but it is part of how things go...i mean it's sometimes cause of this tangent discussion that more posts or discussion on the topic occur... i have found threads sometimes come back on topic...

it would be nice to be able to move a particular post from a thread somewhere though...

wandering is fine, just I had a thread where someone posted about the effects on racing at night, and someone replied saying they have some mouse pointers would anyone like to download them and the discussion was then about mouse pointers.

This effectively killed the original topic, I would have liked to have moved the reply out to its own thread.

Actually, I had an extensive hack like this for UBB (licensed and freeware ). You could select each individual post to move or copy to a new thread.

I was planning on writing it for here, just never got around to it.


...yet.

[Edited by Ed Sullivan on 08-12-2000 at 01:06 PM]

Well I've just given you the perfect reason to do it then .

make that 2 reasons for it

something like this could be very useful around these boards...

Mark I had posted on a similar idea about two months ago (http://vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=1411), whereby I asked for a system that allows the admins to merge two threads. Chris also added the idea to split one thread in two. John's reply was:

John
vBulletin Developer

I am planning some more advanced post/thread management features for this next version.

John

07-04-2000 12:18 AM

This was a little over a month ago, and seeing as he's working on this next version now - I am very optimistic. I know it's a feature the admins on my BB are anxiously waiting for.