I can do some testing.

27,000+ members.
Lots of Trader data

Let me know.

- Alex
www.i-club.com

Okay thanks for all the PMs guys. I think I have enough testers now. I'm going to get back to coding to finish up the hack... Don't feel offended if I didn't reply to your PM, I'm just pressed for time and would like to get this hack posted asap. ;)

I'd like to make one point in anticipation of the forthcoming hack.
Before I installed this hack for vB2, we ran a manual rating system. And after installing the hack I set the user trade ratings to have the number of points brought forward from previous trades.
So if you recalculate the total number of rating points and overwrite this value based on the number of points in the user_rate_trade table, we'll have a problem.
Can you confirm that you do or preferably don't do this?

Spinball - I thought I sent you a PM about this...

Anyhow, to answer your question, you don't have to update the column in the user table, however the rating being displayed on the thread view will not be in sync with the rating on the Trader Ratings display page.

The actual Trader Rating is now based on unique member feedback, however the full TR page breaks it down into all feedback (and over time) so that people can see the bigger picture.

The column in the user table was meant as a means of bypassing TR calculations when users view threads. It is not used for any calculations of the TR page itself.

I'm not sure why, but I can't post any attachments in this thread, otherwise I would show you what the new TR looks like.

Okay everyone, you can find Trader Ratings for vB3 here:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=65730

I know projects tend to get held up but is this still in the works?

has anyone installed this hack in version 3.0.3?

Yes, it works fine at www.avforums.com

Wow, thanks for the link...

The site is really nice and the system seems to work nicely...

regards,

The new name is Trader Rating. Look for it in the VB3 forums.