Soft deleting threads in forums by users who get removed from a usergroup?

[Ludachris]

We have some forums where only certain usergroups are allowed to post threads. The problem is, some users are removed from those usergroups but their threads remain live in those forums. I'd like to figure out a way to soft delete those threads when the thread author is no longer in a usergroup with permissions to post new threads in a given forum. I'm not sure the best way to go about achieving this.

My first thought is to create a cron job that runs nightly and checks all the threads in...

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