I will first say that I know absolutely nothing about hacking a ubb. I only know most html. But I'm very curious about a feature my website partner told me is available with the newer ubb's. The one where you may change the "status" of your members. For instance I could simply label only certain specific members as "Outstanding" if I choose. Then each time they'd post, it would show this label of "Outstanding" below their name on every single post. Then later if I choose I can change this title back to one that all he regular members hold.
I have a specific reason for needing to do this. As we have scrapbooking swappers on my forums. And some tend to not follow through with their swapping commitments. I'm hoping I can do this instead of making some type of an actual a "black list" on my site. This way I can simply & easily let it be known to the community who is & who is not a flaker (to inform those honest swappers about who is/isn't honest), but in a somewhat nice way (by saying only they are outstanding instead). We're hoping to do this as a last resort to banning them all together. Then maybe this way they'll be less inclined to flake out on sending their goods to others (& they'll send their stuff in the acceptable amount of time without excuses), especially if they know in advance that everyone will know. Hope I've made some sense here?
I know I should just upgrade to the newest version of the ubb... but I just honestly don't have the money to do so at this time. That's why I wondered if there was a hack for this feature. And my next question would be, how easy if this to do? Is this a hack that a person (like me) who's never hacked before could do? Or would this be way over my head? I certainly don't want to crash/ruin my boards. Any guidance or help here would be very appreciated.
Yes, sorry, I had totally meant to post what version I had, but in my excitement I spaced it. Yes, Vipermad you listed it correctly. We're running 5.45c. Today my girlfriend's niece just installed your "Who's Online" hack. Which btw, works beautifully!!! But unfortunately that's the last hack she'll be able to do for us, since she's a full time University student & only home on winter break. We had to really beg to get her to even do this one. So my site partner (& best friend) was the one who suggested I look for a hack like this & see if it was easily doable for us or not. Sorry I'm not very technical & that I don't know what it would be called. Remember, we ourselves have never attempted messing around with ubb code. So we're talking absolute total newbies here. lol So please be gentle with us. 
