Bump Threads/Make Threads older

[Andreas]

Bump Threads/Make Threads older

Description
This is a port of "Bump thread and make thread older" by Kentaurus who deserves full credits for the Hack idea.
Bumping a thread is something you eventually need. A thread that has some days
old, it is in the second page of your forum or only a few positions below and you want
attention to be in it again. Posting makes the thread on top, but you don't want
to post in the thread.

Additionally I have added an option called "make thread older" or "debump". This makes
your thread one day older, making room for new threads in the top of the forumdisplay.
Why this? It is useful for closed threads that you don't want to be taking your
user's attention anymore, yet you don't want to delete them. Just send them to the
second page, is takes the same effect as forgetting about them.


Details
1 Product XML (3 Plugins, 4 Phrases)

Currently only single Thread handling (though Thread Tools) is supported; future Versions might support inline moderation as well.

[alzibub]

Awesome!!
Just installed and very initial testing shows a winner!

This is a great addition and very happy you decided to port it - so massive thanks to both you and Kentaurus!

*goes off and bumps till heart is content!*

[SHANE-D-PAIN]

Thanks, been waiting for this, im just going to install it now....

[Mepher]

Works great, thanks.

[gethinoakes]

Thanks!

[Valter]

Works perfect, thanks.

[pipin]

Very nice hack and great work.

an idea for a future version:

you can only bump threads that are older then x days or are on site x or behind of the threadoverview.

[Neutral Singh]

Thanks !! Installed !!

[MentaL]

Awesome added to www.ragezone.com

[Gizmo5h1t3]

kirby...thats excellent mate....i request it, it happens..

[EdQ]

Damn, I was hoping for a slippery hack. :(

[poolking]

/me installed.

[Alrasam]

Thanks installed

[XtremeOffroad]

Another great addition, Thanks

Clicks Install

[Cornolio]

nice!

installed

[ForYou]

Hello ,

Can I make the Thread older than 1 month foe example , not just for one day ,

Regards

[JagFan]

Thank you~ installed :)

[Anette]

Thank you! :D

[thedvs]

thanks a lot, great hack

[Yorixz]

Love you Kirby!

Just wondering; would it be possible (in an easy way) to add a line of code so if you close a topic it automatically gets debumped? (for 48 hours or so) Would be a nice "replacement" for the much requested "move closed topics to the bottom of the page"-hack. Thanks for your response ;)

[dutchbb]

great man, these plugins really rock!

*clicks install*

Just to give you another idea kirby:

What about a feature that allows for autobumping certain threads on a daily basis :)

[silurius]

Thanks! Installed.

[one9er]

Works like a champ. Thank's all.

[SpanishHarlem]

Awesome. I run a freebie and contesting site and contest pages get larger and larger and it's a big pain to bump all the time. This will make a great addition. Thank's.

[Tulsa]

Very nice. :)

Thanks

[Tulsa]

I'm not sure if it's supposed to do this but it appears that once bumped, the thread will stay marked as unread unless you mark it read or post to it.

I just told my users it was the new "force them to post hack". :cool:

[GoNz00]

im getting the same, had to disable until this is resolved, threads just stay up there ? open a hundred times and it still shows unread ??

[silurius]

Bigger issue for me is, the same thread title remains visible on the forums page regardless of bump status.

[GoNz00]

do you others with the problem also run the prevent bumping older threads plugin ?
I wonder if it's a conflict with 'Hook Location : showthread_start'

[optrex]

I'm not sure if it's supposed to do this but it appears that once bumped, the thread will stay marked as unread unless you mark it read or post to it.

I just told my users it was the new "force them to post hack". :cool:

I've got the same problems. I don't have any other hacks installed.

[SpanishHarlem]

Is there any way to get this to bump multiple post's instead of just the one. We have contest's that expire by date and we try and bump the older one's just before they expire. with having so many page's it would make it easier if we could bump more then one post at a time. Thanks.

[GoNz00]

any news on fixing the rather major bug ?

[Andreas]

Not fixable.

[GoNz00]

/ clicks uninstall.

[admin0]

much needed.

installed

[Aeolian_X]

I wasn't sure if I was gonna use this or not, but I find myself using it all the time. Great idea.

[StarBuG]

I wasn't sure if I was gonna use this or not, but I find myself using it all the time. Great idea.

Thank you Kirby

/me clicks install ;)

[Hornstar]

Thanks installed at www.gamerzneeds.net

However there are a few glitches, like you can make the post older by 1 day, but on forum home it will still be the last post etc

but apart from that, a great addition...hopefully the few bugs can be fixed

[Andreas]

The "Bugs" most likely won't be fixed, as this is just a requested port of a vBulletin 3.0 Hack which did not have such features (eg. adjusting last post and such).

[EdQ]

This will do, till someone makes the slippery plugin.

[FROGGYJ]

just curious....can anyone bump the thread? or restricted only to admins?

[funinthesun]

*Installed* Thank you :)

[Bounce]

/me installs :nervous: thanks :squareeyed:

[Vtec44]

just curious....can anyone bump the thread? or restricted only to admins?

I believe only Admins, SuperMods, and Mods of a particular forum can do it.

[FROGGYJ]

well if it's an admin only feature I don't see how useful it is...because registered users are still gonna reply to a thread with the text "bump" to ge it to the top. Andreas is there a simply adjustment in order to make this accessible to all users?

[EdQ]

Thats why I wish there was a slippery hack.

[da420]

installed, seems to work for 3.5.1... thanks Andreas...

[49er]

Very nice

*thx*

[Wifey]

Um, is this compatible with 3.0.0 by any chance? I haven't upgrade yet I am planning on it in the future but if it would work then I'd like to go ahead and get it up. Where does it get uploaded to? That's where I'm a tad confused.

[lucky64]

Andreas,

I noticed you've done several hacks based on 'bumping' on replies. And I was curious, do you know if it would be possible to have some sort of feature that would allow you to have a thread stop being bumped after a specific number of replies? aka an automated version of this hack..

They call it 'saging' on a lot of imageboard (4chan if you've heard of it) and I think it would be a great feature to reduce the amount of spammers.

Anyhow, I appreciate you reading this, and hope you reply.

[Bubble #5]

well if it's an admin only feature I don't see how useful it is...because registered users are still gonna reply to a thread with the text "bump" to ge it to the top.
I agree 110%! This is a good idea gone bad. It would make more sense if only the original poster could bump it since 99.9% of the time only they want to do the bumping. Plus once someone reads the thread it should show up as being read. Hopefully a postbit button will be added for the original poster. Maybe put a timer on the button so it only shows up every 24 hours (to cut down on bumping abuse). Could be a great addition to every forum, but as it sits we sadly won't install it. Close but no cigar :ermm:

[Julie]

Personally, I got a no-bumping policy on my own board, because if this was available to the author of the thread, they would simply be bumping their own threads all the time to make sure they stayed on top. Like, I have fanfictions on my board, and the authors could constantly hit the bumper to make sure it got everyone's attention.

Edit: Any way to make it so that when you choose Make Thread Older, you can enter manually how many days you want it to age? Because if you want it to go to the bottom, you'll have to click many times! :)

[Megareus Rex]

Any way to update the hack so you can choose bump/make older from the inline moderation menu in the forum display? That's make this hack truly awesome.

[brvheart]

Also, is there a way to set it so that an admin can "unbump" so that it goes away from the top of the list? I had a mod bump a thread, and left it for a while, and I as an admin could not unbump it and make it go away.

[Bubble #5]

Also, is there a way to set it so that an admin can "unbump" so that it goes away from the top of the list?
To go one step further, it would be great if an Admin (and ONLY an admin) could send posts to the bottom of a category (instead of just one day away). When an Admin performed this action that particular thread would become unbumpable again and remain at the bottom. It would also be great if the Admin could mark particular threads as being unbumbable by anyone else, even if someone posts again in that thread :classic:

[Djamil]

Any way to make it so that when you choose Make Thread Older, you can enter manually how many days you want it to age? Because if you want it to go to the bottom, you'll have to click many times! :)
Does make sense to me, too. Even in small forums you will have to work hard to get the post disappear from the first page ... any chance you will get your hands on this, Andreas ?

Djamil

[Hawk7173]

I had installed this when we first upgraded. We were hacked and lost about a month of activity from the database, including the upgrade and installation of this mod....sooooo I reupgraded and re-installed this mod. Still works as it did before......

however.... I now have in the moderator dropdown menu.... two choices for bump and 2 choices for make thread older. First set doesn't work, but the second does.

How can I remove the first set?

Thanks in advance!

[Gizmo5h1t3]

Any way to update the hack so you can choose bump/make older from the inline moderation menu in the forum display? That's make this hack truly awesome.

that would be an excellent idea...as then u could "mass bump" certain threads all at once, instead of one at a time.....

this is needed when a section is extremely busy, and threads gert missed by members coming on the board, using a top 10 thread list etc........older threads could be missed

[johnrizz]

Installed! thanks...

[Kihon Kata]

Installed! One problem, I don't see it in the dropdown :(

[blogtorank]

Great Hack! Installed and thank you!

[Bubble #5]

Quick note: this works on 3.6 ;)

[lucky64]

Quick note: this works on 3.6 ;)

Excellent, just installed 3.6 and was going to look into putting this back on.

[Hornstar]

Any ideas on when some new features will be included like, automatic bump on certain posts (hourly/daily/weekly make it x hours/days/week newer)

Make it show up on the forumhome, as I dont think it is, it still shows the old thread on the forumhome.

and inline moderation etc.

Would love for these features, as with my mods.

Thanks.

[G_Man]

Any ideas on when some new features will be included like, automatic bump on certain posts (hourly/daily/weekly make it x hours/days/week newer)



I'd be tickled pink if you could just mark a thread and have it bumped every X amount of days....

[Hornstar]

bump ^^ lol I am really looking at the inline moderation thing being added, anyone know how this could be done?

and of course if any of the other updates could be done, that would be fantastic.


Thanks.

[BMamba]

I need some additional features:
http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=127177

[Barteken]

thanks for this nice hack :-)

[TheBlackPoet]

is there a way to AUTO-bump... some of the threads on my site get overlooked... because of the rate at which they get posted... I could restrict post-rate... but i have an open post policy...

an auto-bump would be cool for me.....

[JD45]

is there a way to AUTO-bump... some of the threads on my site get overlooked... because of the rate at which they get posted... I could restrict post-rate... but i have an open post policy...

an auto-bump would be cool for me.....

/me is looking for the same thing

[dutchbb]

Currently only single Thread handling (though Thread Tools) is supported; future Versions might support inline moderation as well.
Any news on this? I could use that option :D

[dutchbb]

bump for inline moderation, very mutch appreciated!

[Eq4bits]

*installed*
works wonderfully on 3.6.4

[RonanHayes]

Anyway to make it automatically bump edited threads?

[Tralala]

Works fine for me in 3.6.4 with the default vBulletin skin... but it is not showing up in my custom skin. Are there any manual instructions so that I may edit SHOWTHREAD template and get these commands to show up in my custom skin's Thread Tools menu?
Thanks.

[TheMilkCarton]

Any reason this hack doesn't also add the 2 bump options to the "Moderation" dropdown when viewing the forum??

It's impossible to bump more than one thread at a time and I think it would be a great feature.

[Tralala]

Any reason this hack...


Well, in October of 2005, (http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showpost.php?p=816301&postcount=39) the coder Andreas made it clear he wasn't adding or fixing anything for this hack, so there's your reason, I suppose...

[Aclikyano]

well thats real stupid... there goes a perfect hack

[Quantnet]

works perfectly with my 3.6.4 custom style

[FreshFroot]

works perfectly with my 3.6.4 custom style
I hope it works.. for 3.6 cuz the bump one for 3.6 has a bug in it...

[ZomgStuff]

Does this work for 3.6?

[deezelpope]

Beautiful...thank you! Installed.

[Mazinger]

Who will have permission to bump threads?

[jasculs]

Any ideas on when some new features will be included like, automatic bump on certain posts (hourly/daily/weekly make it x hours/days/week newer)

Make it show up on the forumhome, as I dont think it is, it still shows the old thread on the forumhome.

and inline moderation etc.

Would love for these features, as with my mods.

Thanks.

I can use all of these options also

[Mazinger]

Uninstall!

Install: [AJAX] Thread Bumping 1.1 (http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=137796)

[dutchbb]

Uninstall!

Install: [AJAX] Thread Bumping 1.1 (http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=137796)
Installed, removing the pop up for that one would be better imo though...

[PoetJA-1975]

doesn't seem to work on 3.6.8 :(
Invalid Action Specified
Anyway - thanx for the share - had previously worked on 3.5.4

Jacquii.

[misuse]

Works fine for me in 3.6.8 patch 1

[silly rabbit]

Running 3.7.2 and this seems to still be working fine!

Works out of "Thread Tools", not lower "Moderation" bar (which is why I had to install twice!) :up:

thx

[Skitty]

Also works fine for me in 3.7.2 :)

[Keyser Söze]

i like this hack and use it often but one thing i wish is that it would auto update counters *rebuild forum info)

[GreigScott]

Any images of what happens when you press bump thread..

[Keyser Söze]

u dont need an image use ur imagination ;p

u get a redirect message that says ur thread has been moved to back to the thread, and then it takes u to the forum u were in

making it older it gives a different redirect saying thread us now 1 day older

would also be great it u could set # of days like say i want to make something a week older, id have to do it 7 times

[bluesoul]

This works beautifully on 3.7.4, did exactly what I was hoping it would do, I needed a way to update the date of articles created with GARS without an ugly "bump" post. Thanks Andreas, top-notch stuff as always.

[mike2567]

Will this work on 3.8?

[Spooony]

Working on 3.8.1 :)

[Dimoks]

Nice mod but......
but I need mod with time limit (once per 24 h.)

Sample - http://www.freelunchroom.com/board/flr-announcements-news/245016-new-trade-area-changes-important-info.html

I need this mod version. Please help me...

[Keyser Söze]

this still works fine in 3.8.1 pl1, however id love to see an update with a few new features, such as, when making a thread older u can set to what day, like say i want to mae it to 3/18/09

instead of just 1 day

thanks!

[kyrenator]

works perfect at 3.8.2!
thanks!

[andimac]

How do I install this? Where does it go?

[CMFINC]

works sweet.. use
Installed Products from admin CP.

[Markos]

works in 3.8.3

[Markos]

but how come admins can only use it and noone else can :S

[SirHappy]

thx. works in 3.8.3.

[bigcurt]

Installing this, would be very nice if it could be built on a little more though ( usergroup settings, time limit, etc )


Thanks,
Curt

[Anne Lise]

Can this please be changed to be compatibel with the 4.0-version?

[Anne Lise]

*bump* :)

[doopz]

Bump x2!

Indeed working version for vbulletin 4 would be awesome!

[vijayninel]

Thanks working great on 3.8.4 :)

[Hornstar]

Question: If someone goes on a bumping rampage...how do you find out who is doing it?

[mmllc]

You know what would be sweet is if you could do this through checkboxes and moderation menu on forumdisplay :)

[silly rabbit]

ok works on "Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.1"!

[FreshFroot]

Question: If someone goes on a bumping rampage...how do you find out who is doing it?
Only way to know is if the bumps have a log list.

[Valter]

Indeed working version for vbulletin 4 would be awesome!

Here:
http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=239946