Hi Ted,
I'd like to add my voice to a couple of previous suggestions as well.
1. I think this mod would be perfect if it hooked into the rep. points system - but in a simple manner. I'd like to see it be able to award a point(s) for a good suggestion, but I couldn't use it to subtract points - IMHO that would be too harsh to penalize someone for providing an answer that didn't quite work out.
2. I also agree with a previous poster that the mod's options page needs to have a cell which allows us to add a comma separated listing of applicable forums (or the reverse - a list of excluded forums). In my particular setup, I have 78 forums and sub-forums - all but 6 of them needed the mod to be activated. It took me a long time last night to set them all up - granted that was mostly down to browser refresh speeds, but being able to deal with all forums in one go would be sweet.
3. I'm also hoping that your sample (or future) code will include the ability to add a line in the postbit somewhere under the avatar which lists how many helpful posts a member has made? A little like the current "thank you" mod does - i.e. "Thanked 396 times in 329 posts"
4. In helpfulanswers.php, when the link is clicked, I'd like to see it go to the post in question, but in full thread view (for context) instead of just the single post view.
Hope these suggestions are useful because for forums like mine, this is going to be a very popular mod - I've already nominated it for MOTM.
Thanks,
Mike