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temporarily hack i was thinking of was to
1) make a thread prefix of [NR] (no response).
2) Make a admin/mod tool, to add thread prefix [NR] to easily modify posts.
3) Then modify the unanswered post search plugin to search out only threads with no prefixes and 0 responses (currently its ignoring the thread prefix)
4) Then the end result would be the admin/mod would only have to select X threads to [NR] prefix in the mod tool to have it ignored in the unanswered post search result.
The problem with this is
A) modifying the plugin would be certainly more simpler than creating a new plugin, it still might be a bit to figure it out (im not great at php)
B) That would mean we have a bunch of thread prefixes labeling threads that expect no response.
C) If for some reason a new user selected the thread prefix of NR, their post would not go into unanswered post (unlikely, but possible)