Can you explain this more? The way I see it is, you're rating individual posts... so if you distort the display order would the conversation/topic at hand not be thrown all out of whack i.e. the post order would be off so when read top to bottom or vice-versa depending on your settings it might not make sense... that's just my thought on it. I do see your point about wanting the most helpful answers at the top, naturally it's quick to find the solution. Perhaps a "This is the correct answer" option "image overlay" on the post an admin deems as such would be best in a situation like this.

Yeah throwing a thread out of whack would just seem like a giant PITA to me. I would go with something like Mike posted above.

That's an option in this addon although you'll want to go further than just enabling it and insure replies are answers, not discussions (best if you have a comment option below reply).

Keep in mind it's a global setting so if you use it in one forum, it will apply anywhere HA is used.

4.2.1

postbit legacy

Does anyone know how to add the "did you find..." sentence in the lower right hand side of the post? No matter where I put the code it always floats to the upper right hand side. I think maybe I need to add something like a div around the code? Thoughts?:confused:

The bit floats... try forcing it around another div.

Hi,

question1: if i delete user and all his posts, will be also his Helpfull answers points he added to other members posts deleted?

question2: what value to add to hide posts with 2 and more negative votes? in "Hide Negative Posts - Count"? .... 0 hides 1+ negatives

question3: are hidden posts visible to google bot / indexable?

idea1: Please allow setting different value for "Hide Negative Posts - Count" and Hide Negative Thread - Count"

idea2: This Mod dont show up on my forum after install, i needed to bulk enable it from main menu: Administration /
Helpful Answers System / Bulk Forum Enabler. It should be noted in first post of this topic... I almost did not found it.

No. His or her posts have nothing to do with his or her posts any more than they have to do with his or her profile, blog comments, etc

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The addon sets the div as hidden using inline css which engines are likely to pick up on. Whether the follow it or not I don't know.

[quote=postcd;2452165]idea1: Please allow setting different value for "Hide Negative Posts - Count" and Hide Negative Thread - Count"

- Thanks for the idea!

It's noted in bold, larger text that's colored red in the main post and again in the install guide. Twice.

q1: how then admin can bulk delete users votes? What if user signup just to bulk fake votes. When i delete seome member i usually want all traces be deleted, so i think it should delete also his Answers.

There's a bulk management tool in the admin.

In my case 1 and also 2 hides all posts, even first post. posts which are even non negative rated. I think its a bug and only negative posts should not be visible..? :eek:

You probably mean "Helpful Answer Statistics" accessible from main vbulletin admin menu (http://internetlifeforum.com/admincp...fulanswers.php).

Typo on my part.

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Logic used:

any screenshots of what a hidden post looks like? Do you click to view?

Right, the entire post contents are replaced with a very short block of text that has a link to expand back the post (we use a hidden div to make it happen).

The default phrase is "The post by {1} is hidden due to low votes. Click expand to view it" but of you can of course change that, add details, images, whatever you like.

When i add -1 it dont hide 1 negative votes posts. why?

It's a greater then statement so > -1 is -2, -3, etc... So you enter whatever the minimum value of posts you want to have show.

Clearly not how the option describes it but we'll probably change the phrase rather than the logic to avoid any adverse impact to forums that already have a value in.

Any thoughts on importing vbseo likes into helpful answers?

The likes system and vbseo in general has going to the toilet.

There's no import feature at this point... not sure how they work exactly if you can explain?

vBSEO Likes is similar to Paul's mod here on vbulletin.org where you click the heart to "like" a post but instead it was a link bottom right of postbit text in each post. Also it's very similar to DB Tech's thanks/likes system they are all very similar in concept.

Thanks!

Obviously if it's just a straight like, importing the data would be rather simple (loop the votes, add a record for each, resync the totals on the post).

The question is of course: why do it and does it match the user's expectation? I like a lot of things but are they helpful? Not sure it's the same...

Dear Ted S,

I would like to install your modification however was wondering if there was a port available from https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=231666?

Thanks.

Nope.

reported answers page url not opening... any idea?
showpost.php?p=123 no opening... profile.php?do=helpfulans this is the page...

showpost.php is part of your core forum, if that's not working, you should check your vBulletin installation (or clarify your message to indicate what this addon is doing that does not work with it).

doesnt work with 4.2.1?..

Sure it does.

Did you read the install guide and/ or first thread of this post?

Hey Ted, did you consider to make the most helpful answer as the second post?
This could be a very great feature..

You can re-order posts by votes with a little hacking or show a message to jump down to the most helpful post. Moving one specific post, not really requested.

doesnt work good with vbulletin 4.2.1

this hack stinks.

Well that's constructive feedback.

I just don't want anyone else to waste their time installing it. :)

Hmmm, 555+ installs, I would say you are a bit late.

Matter of opinion I suppose, most would argue though :p.

This system works fine with many 4.x sites as noted by other members over past posts. If you provided actual details, I'm sure we could figure out what's not happening for your specific forum but it's pretty hard to do much with "doesn't work good."

I'm not understanding if you don't like the concept or the execution. If the former, by all means, don't use what isn't right for you. If the later, perhaps you'll grace us with some details to help insure it gets improved?

And the 4,000,000+ votes that have taken place through those installs (anonymous reporting is an admin option). Suppose that means a few people must like it... maybe, sorta?

[Edit: Make that 6.4 million. Guess they didn't get the memo that it stinks yet :D]

I own several photography forums, and I'm looking for a solution that would let members nominate posts for consideration to be featured on the front page/CMS. This looks like it will work really well for that - I would check the stats daily and see which posts receive multiple nominations - but it has a lot more options/features than I need. Does it affect performance much on a big board?

Everything dynamic impacts performance but this mod is pretty low on the threshold as it's primarily just extending existing queries to call in votes and, on occasion, append them in. It's by no means without it's hit but it was designed thinking about how to avoid new calls (and mark options which require them clearly).

The biggest boards using the mod pull in six figures worth of votes themselves, so you can infer from that what their size is.

One like = one helpful answer vote. There are no down votes. There was an importer for this mod for the likes. This was the query:

Very Cool.

Just remember, there's 3 bits of logging involved in votes:

helpfulpost - which stores the post level totals (so we don't have calculate every load)
helpfulanswer - which records the votes (so we know every detail to report / manage)

and then a record on the user level (for profile views)