I figured that another perk we could offer to our donors would be a tool that lets their trade threads get auto-bumped, similar to the way TF2Outpost has auto-bumping for donors.
I have no idea how this could be implemented, but I figured that a bot account could automatically post to the donor's thread to bring it back to the top every X minutes. To prevent it from cluttering up a thread, it could also delete its last post in that thread, so you'd only ever see one bump.
Or even maybe just a forum plugin that would somehow move that thread to the top of the list. Maybe by adjusting the timestamp of the last post or something. I dunno.
I realize this would be quite a feat to code, but I figure I'd throw this idea out there. I figure surely somebody out there would be willing to throw a few bucks our way for this feature, alone.
Thoughts? Anybody up for coding such a plugin?
I have no idea how this could be implemented, but I figured that a bot account could automatically post to the donor's thread to bring it back to the top every X minutes. To prevent it from cluttering up a thread, it could also delete its last post in that thread, so you'd only ever see one bump.
Or even maybe just a forum plugin that would somehow move that thread to the top of the list. Maybe by adjusting the timestamp of the last post or something. I dunno.
I realize this would be quite a feat to code, but I figure I'd throw this idea out there. I figure surely somebody out there would be willing to throw a few bucks our way for this feature, alone.
Thoughts? Anybody up for coding such a plugin?
