how about an "option" to "automatically add the template"? that would be awesome

Wish there was a way to do both; don't think there is.

Feature suggestion:
The post rated most useful in a thread will be highlighted so it stands out.

Maybe sort by most useful/highest rated instead?

A lot of sites do this for comments on news etc..

Thanks for the suggestions. Both are doable and I'll add them next week.

Hello Ted_S,
Could you make it possible to rate answer with stars or numerical values (1~10) and a listing of top 10 (or some number) posts in a thread?
The binary yes-no answer is still not satisfactory, IMO.

Thanks in advance.

The binary ratings are the purpose of this feature; stars or a 5 or 10 point scale was not the idea behind the addon. This addon is meant to show the utility of a post much like how Yahoo Answers or any of the thousands of other Q&A style forums work. A user is asked what posts they like or dislike showing an aggregate rating of how many people found it helpful.

It sounds like the issue isn't about satisfactory rating options but rather about a mismatch in what you're looking to do and what this is intended to do.

While I would love to accommodate and build this option in so both were possible what you're looking for is simply a different addon. Not that I don't like the idea but simply that merging the two systems together would basically mean adding a lot of bad overhead to each that just isn't needed.

Gutting this hack and putting in just a star or 10 point system would seem a lot more logical to me to get your intended functionality.

Great stuff, thanks Ted! This will be handy for more than 'forums' then :)

I really hope it gets tied in with rep somehow, that would be bliss :D or maybe have some other summary on the users profile/postbit? To say how many of their posts are positive/negative and work out a rep for them that way (maybe positive points minus negative ones perhaps) or just a ratio as a percentage? Or how about getting positive points in some sections are somehow 'worth more' (so less value in say off-topic forums?).

Rep system tie-in is coming... Check for version 1.5 next week.

Thanks Ted - you're a star!