Converting community posts into tickets

I really need an easy way to convert forum posts in the community to tickets, or to alert agents when a post has gone un-answered for a certain amount of time. Right now there isn't a method in place to determine whether or not a post has been answered and then fire some sort of trigger action from that not being answered. I know you can get email updates for any new posts by following the thread but i would like something centralised within our ZenDesk account as our support agents cannot always monitor the community posts throughout the day.

Anyone have any ideas or work-arounds?