I was looking for this. After assigning a new person to a resource it looked kind of weird that the discussion thread was started by someone else. This did exactly what we wanted. Thanks Chris.
Thanks for creating this. Been looking for a way to create threads for some members who have issues figuring out how to post on the forum, or for people who post something in the chat area that needs to be in the forum area.
To be completely honest, there is a more feature rich add-on by someone else here. Check out the resources by *******. I believe it might already have a date change option :) Thanks for the view and download.