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I run a small sci-fi related CGI forum. I've been looking for a way to duplicate a feature found on both www.scifi-meshes.com/forums/ and forums.cgsociety.org/

Specifically, I'm talking about the featured threads thumbnails that they have displayed near the top of the page. I've been able to create something similar using the notices system in vBulletin and just changing where the notices are shown, but the downsides being a) I have to manually upload each thumnail and put all the html in myself b) I'm the only admin so I'm the only one who can edit the featured threads, I'd like my mods to be able to do it as well c) obviously it messes with my actual notices.

So what I'm asking basically is if there's a mod out there that does this "properly," if not how easy would it be to make one or at least is there a way to create a secondary notices system (as in just copy the whole notices function) so I could separate it from my actual notices.