[Ted S]

Originally Posted by biocyberman

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.

Not a bad dream if I do say so myself.

A few comments to you because you should understand what you want, it helps in getting it.


Let reader answer the question. Not difficult to do, heck you could extend this mod to do it fairly easily... Right now I have a column for goodvotes, totalvotes with each post. All you'd need to do is change the rating from 1 point for each to 10 possible. Change the script to record the number value and change the votes table to hold the individual score. Divide the goodscore by the totalvotes and you get an average.

It's not as insane is it sounds.

Add quick search in thread tool to sort posts. Unfortunately there's no hooks in the queries so that means code edits. Users hate code edits so coders hate making hacks with them.

sort members according to their sum of score. Not simple code but not that difficult either. The main issue here is the overhead as you try to break things out (i.e. top user with threads in a category).

Rating moderation by staff members. I'm a huge fan of this myself but haven't figured out a good way to do it in forums. With review scripts (i.e. product reviews) you can do "staff review" but for a post you'd either have to have comments on the post (which doesn't make a ton of sense when the user can just post back) or denote that a staff member ranked it on a star scale.

I wanted to make the post order hack but the code edits stopped that. But I am up for diving into the first and the last feature requests if there's more interest.