Hi Ted thanks for your reply.....I originally installed the mod on 4.01. Today I upgraded to 4.02, still have the same problem with helpful answers. Do you have any ideas where I should be looking for potential conflicts in the way I may have set up my forums? Is there anymore info I can give you that might make this less of a needle in a haystack? Your effort is much appreciated!

Interesting. Are you running any other large mods or is your board mostly "out of the box"? Was this a new 4.0 install or a 3.x upgrade?

There is a file install.html along with the zip archive. You need to read it before installing as it explains all of the steps.

Hi Ted, the only other mod I'm running is Blackthorn last 30 pm's. Other than that it's the vb blog and vb cms. This was a new install (I came in to the party on 4.01). The only other things I've done other than altering control panel option settings are I've renamed the admin and mod folders, and I've password protected the renamed folders and also password protected the includes and install folders. I assume this has no effect on the mod? Obviously the files were uploaded to the appropriately renamed folder. The "simple" was this answer helpful yes/no works fine, it's only the 10 point system (the one I really want to use!) that has the problem.

Feature suggestion if you're taking them:

When a post reaches a certain # of ratings, it changes background color (to a user defined color preferrably).

For instance, if 5 people vote +Yes to a user's post, it becomes a light platinum shade that makes it stand out from other posts.

Not sure if it's possible on vb4, but on the previous mod I was using in 3.8 (Post Ranking Stats) it was really helpful to skim quickly a thread and figure out the best posts.

Thanks! Willing to donate a few more bucks if you work this in! =)

This can be done now with a template conditional. I will post a few examples this weekend.

very very strange.

I'm not able to duplicate your error but what's really wierd is that the function can_administer isn't used in this script. Is there any more detail in the error like the path or other files which may help me track this down?

Ted, in the settings for this mod there is only a bulk option for threads but not for entire forums. It would be a little hassle for me to change this setting in every forum. It would be cool if you could add a bulk tool for forums too.

Thanks. :)

The bulk feature is for forums. No sense in bulk enabling threads which change every day...

It says "Threads" in the settings that's why I was confused. :) Gonna try it out now.
Thanks for the help.

Sorry Ted I think i've confused things by listing two seperate issues in quick succession. The error message containing "can_administer" has been fixed - I'd uploaded the wrong .php file - my bad! The error I'm left with I raised in a second post (I've uninstalled and re-installed twice since), which is the following: I get the 1 to 10 scale, and I can place a vote on the scale and get the thank you message, but the ranking is displayed like this, "This post has been ranked $post[avgrank] out of 10 with $post[totalrank] votes" Sorry again for the confusion, hopefully this is easier to fix! I've seen reference to this problem in a french vb forum, but couldn't follow the fix!

Ted, I entered the forum ID and it doesn't work, even thread ID's don't work.

Check the forum manager to be sure it's enabled in that forum. Thread IDs have absolutely nothing to do with this mod... it's entirely forum based.

Ahh. This one I know, look for a fix tomorrow.

Here's the version with these variables all fixed up. Since most people don't use the 10 scale I'm going to hold off on an update (which notifies everyone) until there's other changes.

Ted, you're a legend! All working :):) Many, many thanks.

I have 'Enable Profile Voting Stats - I & II' enabled but I am not seeing anything in the user's profile under "About Me". Is that where it's supposed to show the ratings for each user? I can't see it anywhere in their profile and I'm on vB 4.0.1. Other than that, everything else is working okay.

Same problem here. When I disable negative rating after I rate a post this is shown: %1$s members found this post helpful.

Strange. My test site runs this without any issues but I will check more over the weekend.

Thanks dude

Hope this Mod will work also on Blog Entry and Article (CMS).
Thank you!

Not sure why you get this when I don't... And I can't duplicate it yet.

Can you share your settings to help me track this down? Thanks!

Just a reminder of the little update having the receiving usernames listed in helpfulanswers.php instead of the post#
:)

thanks!

Can we make it as www.yoursite.com/forums/popular.php

I would like to use it as members can populate +/- and give reputations, also member can vew a list of top members.

Tagged so far.

Just checked, its not working for blog. :(

Of course not... It's a post rating tool. Blog entries aren't posts.

This is not a reputation module about members, it's a post voting system which can contribute to your reputation setup if you so chose. If there's a way you would like to extend post voting to work with reputation more I am always up for new suggestions but am not really clear on your comments.

I will get back to you soon with the idea, thanks for quick respond mate. :)

Can I disable the text and just have the thumbs up or down image?

Can I turn off the the helpful answer rating for posts made by admins and mods?

Also, can admins mods be exempted from votes per day rules, etc.?

You can edit the phrase and change the display however you like.

Wrap the entire helpful_answers_roll template in a conditional that checks the group of the post user. May require a little edit to the php as well.

I have no idea how to do this.

Is there a way to make a post collapse (be somewhat hidden) when it receives are certain number of negative ratings?

Can this be done with this mod?

I have a weird problem

For some reason I am not allowed to rate the first post in certain threads..

I have checked that "hide on first post" is set to off. In some forums I can rate the first and in others I can't. I have also made sure helpful answers is enabled in all forums.

Example:
http://www.digi-tech.org/news-info/98-change-log.html - This first post you can rate
http://www.digi-tech.org/web-design/...er-design.html - This first post you can't rate

I don't get it.

Any help would be much appreciated.

can i use it like yahoo answer? thread starter only can pick one reply.

hi!
thanks for the upgrade for vb4!

i'm running a vb4 test board, and when i look at the last "helpful ratings" in my settings, the boxes on the left are broken.
please look at the screenshot for the original skin of vb4.0.2.

thank you.

If I need to modify the icon size used in this addon, do I need to modify any temlates other than the "helpful_answers_roll"? as I tried modifying it but didn't see any changes happening.. or this is a cache issue?

When I opt to disallow negative votes, the thumbs up / thumbs down icon changes to a simple "yes" in text, instead of just a thumbs up - even though I have the thumbs-up image option selected, not the text option. Am I the only one having this problem?