Cloning a thread

[Nordinho]

Heya,

I would like to see a hack that allows the cloning of a thread. For example; if a user posts a news items in a forum a moderator can decide to move it to the main news forum (which posts show up at the frontpage). Right now there are only the options to move/copy/leave redirect the thread etc. But if you copy the thread, there are 2 threads created...which is not really usefull for the same newsitem. Leaving a redirect only leaves the url, but not the description, viewcount etc. So it would be better if the thread was cloned so replies will be added to both threads...

[Paul M]

Sorry, maybe I'm not understanding, but how is a copy, using the copy thread feature, different from a "clone" ?

[Nordinho]

Originally Posted by Paul M

Sorry, maybe I'm not understanding, but how is a copy, using the copy thread feature, different from a "clone" ?

Well, if you copy the thread than there are 2 threads and if someone replies to 1 of the threads, the other thread doesn't get updated...so eventually there will 2 totally different threads...The module I'm requesting should add an option to clone the thread, so that if someone replies to a cloned thread, both threads get updated with that reply...hope this is more clear...

[Paul M]

Oh right, you want the same thread to appear in more than one forum.

[Nordinho]

Originally Posted by Paul M

Oh right, you want the same thread to appear in more than one forum.

that would be the easy way to say it

[Nordinho]

Do you think it can be done??