Stale Thread Indication

[DrPinto]

I was wondering if there is a way to somehow indicate that a thread hasn't been responded to for a while (maybe for 6 months). For example, a colored bar could appear after the last post. More than once I've replied to a post with something I thought would add to the conversation without realizing the post was several years old. This is something almost everybody has done accidentally.

[chausman]

Here's a plugin to do just that Dave.

http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=255581

Edit: I lied. When you read the whole thread, it doesn't work.

http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=266246 or
http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=257629 *should*.

[Grog12]

So...where it says Last Post By with a name a time and a date....on the right hand side...maybe something like that?

[ruinexplorer]

Yeah, but I'm thinking that they want something a little more bold. Something perhaps that would pop up when you pressed the reply button, like "Hey, the last post on this thread was over six months ago, do you still want to continue?". After all, pertinent information could still be added to an older thread, even if it may not help the OP.

[derekleffew]

Ruin, I like that idea. dvsDave, would that be difficult to implement? (I suspect it would be.)

[dvsDave]

I like the idea, I'll have to see if I can find/modify code to make that happen!