Auto Close Old Topics after x period of time

[Snowhog]

vB 4 had MODs for this. Here is one: https://www.vbulletin.org/forum/show...=243402&page=4

The ability to automatically close topics to new posts attempted by other than the original poster, moderator, or administrator, is useful. The occasional spammer who makes it into a forum, often targets 'old' topics in which to post spam.

Can something along this line be created for vB 5?

[glennrocksvb]

I'll see if that is feasible with vB5. It looks like the mod you linked auto-closes topics after a user attempts to post a reply? The act of posting triggers the auto-close instead of having a Scheduled Task to auto-close a topic after a period of time so the users would never have a chance to attempt to reply.

[Snowhog]

The MOD we used to have in vB4 allowed for setting an amount of time (# of days) after last post was made and would then close the topic. It didn't require an attempt by someone to post. It was a custom MOD IIRC. It took an Admin to reopen it (and possibly a Moderator; I don't remember).

The MOD we had was written by MarkFL at vbulletin.org. My old notes said the MOD was called: Auto-Close Old Threads v1.0

This was written for me by MarkFL on vBulletin.org after my request for a MOD that would auto-close threads after a specified period of time (days), so as to stop the occasional necro-posting (posting to very old threads). I don't see it on vbulletin.org however; just checked.

[oldfan]

Thanks I somehow miss this addon.

[Snowhog]

I'll see if that is feasible with vB5.

Did you forget about this (sorry), or ....

It is really annoying to have posts made to really old threads.

[Eolesen]

I wrote a database routine that does this in VB4 by modifing the Threads table on anything that hasn't seen a post in 5 years + 1 month old. Probably not too different from whatever a mod would do as a Cron job.

[glennrocksvb]

Starting to work on it now. Thanks for the reminder.

[Snowhog]

👍 Thanks!

[glennrocksvb]

This mod is now available at:

https://vbmods.rocks/forum/vbulletin-5-modifications/vbulletin-5-products-and-extensions/26963-auto-close-old-topics-cron