[biocyberman]

Originally Posted by Ted S

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.

Thanks for your time and your discussion, Ted_S.
Yes you are right. I am looking for a different rating system, which I think hasn't been made yet.
I have been searching and trying several Mods to satisfy following feature but haven't got one:

1. Let reader answer the question: "How helpful do you think of this post?" by giving more informative and qualitative answer rather than "yes" or "no".
2. Add quick search in thread tool to sort posts in a thread according to their sum of score. Add link in member search or forum-wide search to sort members according to their sum of score got in whole forums or a specific forum.
3. Rating moderation by staff members

That's is my dream. The mod actually does above features will do some thing. There will be no need for "post thank you hack", "post groan hack", "post rating system hack", and your
"Helpful answer" hack (sorry). And I am sure a lot of vb forums are using one of these hacks. So a more complete handling would be to have conversion tools for forums using those hack into this "unified" post rating system Upon score from this system, member prestige is more rational.
Nonetheless your mod is the closest one to have potential to fulfill mentioned features.