Hi, first i would like to say this hack rocks.

I have made the above change to the 3 locations... however i cant find where the postbit_lagacy is displayed in the forum its self??

Cheers

Hey Guys,

Sorry about this, but my trader ratings has broken. :(

I have checked and dbl checked all the templates, re-uploaded traderratings.php in binary and have pulled 3/4 of my hair out.... now i am begging for help.

The main page displays fine - http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/for...ings.php?u=124

But if you want to leave feedback - http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/for...24&do=feedback

The source of that page is 100% empty.... i dont know whats going on.

Thanks for any assistance.

Christian

I would like to make the URL FIELD when submitting feedback a required one.. this is so we can track and moderate the system easier...

Can you please tell me where and what code to add for this...

Cheers.

I had the same problem, and i fixed it by putting the templates of traderratings in the right style. Are you sure there in the right style?

Edit your traderratings.php

In the first bit of the code you will find this option:
Set it to 1 to require url :)

yeah they are.

i can also see the summary page and peoples specific feedback, but just not leave the feedback.

Ah, cheers for that.. very greatfull, all working now :)

Here's a problem I noticed.

I have a user who had some bad deals, so he got some negative feedback. However, he also had some good deals as well. The problem is that he had more good than bad deals, so he still has a +2 rating. If people don't look at his rating in detail, they may think he's good to go and purchase from him, even though he may be committing fraud.

The solution would be to change the way the ratings are calculated. Instead of just +1 or -1, it would be smarter to do it like eBay does - 100% less any negative marks. In this case, he might have 4 good and 2 bad. Instead of having a +2 rating, he would have a 66% rating, where everyone else would have 100%.

How hard would it be to change the way this hack does the math? I would be very interested in seeing it like this.

Besides, people are used to how eBay works, so this would make a lot more sense to more people.

Okay, I tried to make the 100% score thing work by changing the math:

In traderratings.php, on line 460

Old: $tradeall = $userinfo[tradepos] + $userinfo[tradeneu] + $userinfo[tradeneg];

New: $userinfo[tradescore] = 100 / $userinfo[tradepos] + $userinfo[tradeneg] * $userinfo[tradepos];

The problem is that I get a division by zero error on the traderratings.php page. However, I believe the math is correct. Now how can I make this work? I'm no PHP programmer so I'm gonna have a very hard time making that work.

So what is the @$userinfo[tradepcnt] = (1 - ($userinfo[tradeneg] / $tradeall) ) * 100; line for? Does that do what I want already? (line 465)

The percentage certainly seems more informative. I'd prefer it. :thumbsup

I have looked into it a bit more....and now it just tells the # I got from different members. Looking under trader ratings at the top though, every single member has a trader rating higher then the # of different traders that left them feedback. Im just hoping it is a mistake and the trader rating # will be set so its the total # again, not the # of different users

how do I get the postbit to show all positive feedback instead of the calculated score?

What am I missing? The hack works great but when i view my posts the trader rating does not show. I have added the

<if condition="$post['userid']"><div>Trader Rating: (<a href="traderratings.php?$session[sessionurl]u=$post[userid]">$post[ratetradetotal]</a>)</div></if>

to the MEMBERINFO template and to the postbit_legacy but neither made any differnece.

I am a total noob to VB, so i am sure it is something simple i missed, any feedback would be appreciated.

1shotdesign.com/trade

Great Hack BTW
Mark

woot, NVM problem solved. :D

Where in the traderratings.php file do I put the

"<if condition="is_member_of($post, 11)">
(trader ratings row)
</if>"

Code. I do not want to use the template change so that no one can type the URL and go to the feedback page.

What I want is:

ONLY 3 USER GROUPS (for example 1,2,3)CAN VIEW, PROVIDE FEEDBACK, RATE and all the other functionalities of this script. NO other user groups (like 4,5,6) can do anything at all. Can this be done with a simple code in the script file?

ONE MORE QUESTION:

The comment field where feedbacks are written can only take 80 characters max. How do I change it to take 300 character?

I am still looking into this. It turns out that the percent is ALREADY calculated on the trader ratings page for the individual. So the math is ALREADY being done. I put the code into the post bit template, though, and it did not work.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated! :D

Thanks for the code on making the rating link only show up conditionally. I used that. I think a lot of folks might like to do that.

The biggest problem I've heard with rating is abuse; the URL feature is designed to cut down on this.

We have this FINE HACK INSTALLED in test. One of our mods jumped right in and posted a bogus URL in the feedback. We don't want to have to ban people for doing this.

My thought to cut down on that is to make sure the URL is valid. I tried doing some more validation on the URL tested in line 368 of traderratings.php.

such that at least it would have to point to a thread in our domain (we have production and test boards). My code is a flop and I'm out of time to debug it today.

However, it seems like the URL to the board is known to vB. Grabbing this URL would allow both basic validation AND to allow the documentation in the URL box to use the actual board URL in the example. I'm new to vB so I don't know this variable and will have to dig for it.

Also, once the thread is known, one could check the thread starter and thread replies for the users involved in giving/receiving the feedback. Disallow the feedback unless the giver is either the thread starter or one of the posters. Don't know how to catch all 3 of these things: the reviewer, thread starter and thread reply posters.

Anyway, if someone can give me some pointers, I'd appreciate it & when its done will contrib the code back.

wow this is awsome 10 stars :)

Excellent idea and in fact I came here to request the EXACT same thing you already have. I went to buy something and in the post the user had a 0 rating. My first thougth was he didn't have any ratings. When I clicked on his profile he had 2... one good, one bad so they off set.

Great idea and I hope it can be included!

^^ great idea!! makes a lot of sense

I've never had that problem or people complain to me. From what I gather from my users, they do look over a person's trader rating, and also check what previous trades that person had engaged in before.

However, I'll consider adding it in the next version. The biggest issue is just the space that it takes in the postbit template, I just tried to keep it to a minimum.

The % Positive is displayed on the main trader ratings page. Calculating out that number on-the-fly is not advisable when viewing threads. There will need to be an additional column stored in the user table and have the % calculated / updated when the main score is done.

Well, I actually was working on code to validate the URL to ensure that it was a thread that existed in the forum, and that it was in a valid FS/WTB section. However that along with all the other changes have been sitting in limbo as I haven't had time lately to update the hack.

There's a lot of features I was working on, but had to put on hold due to personal circumstances. I'll try to get an update coded, tested, and published within a couple weeks or so.

There have been requests for all sorts of features, some really off-the-wall. My main intention for this hack was to keep it simple and easy to implement. Also to have a minimium amount of changes to the vB templates (and no file changes) as to keep things easier when upgrading vB versions.

Anyhow, as to some of the people posting issues, I've seen them before and they are in this thread, so just read through or do a search. I'm sorry I don't have time to answer everyone's questions individually these days, I'm a very busy person.

Any idea when the rebuttal comments might be added? This hack has been one of the best and that feature would just make it perfect! :)

Mark

Hi im a noob at these sort of things.

I just installed the trader rating hack. What am i suppose to do after that? Do i have to do anything with the templete.txt file?

How do i activate it onto the forums?

[edit] if i type in the full address i can see the trader rating system, but how do i put it on the forum for all memebers to see and click on it and start using it?

*installs*

Good instructions. No hickups with installation. Use not yet tested.

=M=

You need to modify the templates as told in the templates.txt to get proper links etc showing at yer forums. Instructions are quite clear if compared with most other mods.

=M=

i got it going, thanx

Hi guys. this hack certainly sounds interesting.

i run a small gaming website and our trade forum is very popular with a handful of game trades being done every day.

how we have been handling it is that the seller emails me and i update a trade count figure on their profile that only admins can edit. the seller send the email contaning what games were traded/sold to who and the link to the original thread that we then go close.

i would love to install this hack, it wont eliminate the need for an admin to manually update their trade count but the feedback part is interesting as that would take over that.

what i am concerned about are just a few issues i hope can be answered.

1. attached is a screenshot of how my styles are set up. can anyone see any problems or anything i would need to keep in mind during the install.

2. are negative feedbacks moderated at all? what i dont want to see happening is people that have an issue with another user simply adding loads of negative feedback to scare off other traders. you never know... i dont want to see honest traders (of which i have plenty) getting a bad reputation due to one nasty idiot.

3. has anyone with 3.04 installed this? im running 3.03 now and about to upgrade before i install any more hacks.

Will this hack work with vBulletin 3.0.4?

Nevermind, seems to work perfectly!

sbryan:
1. You *might* have to edit the install file to "force" which StyleID you want it to install the templates to.
2. Feedback is not moderated at this time. However, the way the points system work is like eBay. If one person leaves 1,000 negatives, it still only deducts 1 point from their total. The Trader Rating is based on unique members. However, admins/mods can edit/remove any feedback from any user very easily.
3.It should work with 3.0.4 since all the code is independent of any vB files.

thanks Jason.

will try installing it ASAP and give it a test run!

*EDIT* got it all working pretty nicely. trade ratings is appearing in the postbit area under some other custom fields that i put in a while ago and looks quite nice. managed to find alot of the text and edited that (took me a while to find as i was searching in the templates not in the phrases).

it will be a 'tread carefully at first' approach with the forum members but it should compliment our existing system quite nicely. anything that keeps game traders/sellers honest is fine with me.

now to just work out where to put a link in the MEMBERINFO template as well that looks nice and not out of place.

thanks Jason, great hack!

Anyone running this hack with 3.0.5?

I am.

I am too, works fine.

There is no reason it shouldn't work with 3.0.5 (or any other 3.x version for that matter). The Trader Ratings add-on is for the most part a self-contained script that is independent of any vBulletin changes. ;)

*Clicks install* (Works on my vB 3.0.5)

eoc_jason, please PM "Paul M" about his code/hack.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=584793

I like this hack, but was dissapointed to find an error in my who's online. Here is my version (with trader ratings info) of his hack. I don't take credit for it, I simply edited it's words. This works with vB 3.0.5.

In forumdir/includes/functions_online.php find ;

and below it add ;

Then Find ;

and below it add ;

trader ratings who's online, whos online, who online, error

+++++in! Works great on my site!

So, if someone has 10 separate transactions over the space of a month and leaves 10 feedbacks, that only counts as 1 point on their feedback rating? It would be nice if we could customize that ability. My forum only has a few thousand members and out of those, only several dozen are active traders. They have always left multiple feedback for each other - on separate transactions - and I always counted each one as a +1 on their score.

Great hack, but one problem i have found on the stats page -

http://www.tech-arena.co.uk/forum/traderratings.php?

It keeps stating this, so i looked through the instructions which say -

But my code says -

So as it's on 0, shouldn't it be open, any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks :)

Also even though i've updated from 1.1.0 to 1.2.0 on a members trading page it says Trader Ratings v1.1.0 under their feedback.