Question About Modules

[Lizard King]

I have a problem with my modules. I used to have a news module wich will show 10 threads. These threads were from forumids : x , y , z etc... In this case if there will be a lot of activity in y forum the homepage will be filled with news threads from forum y.
Because of this i created copies of news module and assign them to get just 1 thread from forum x. This way i am not worried about the activity but now i have a problem with module orders. Because the module orders the topics in homepage are always same
news x
thread
news y
thread
news z
thread

Is there a way to get the modules change their location according to latest activity so it can look like this
news z
thread
news x
thread
news y
thread

or
news y
thread
news x
thread
news z
thread

[Brian]

I'm sure something like that would be possible, but would take a bit of work and knowledge about PHP.