[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Spinball

Yes I would. But I see you have already altered your core code. I think that's a much more professional approach.

What can I say... When I like an idea, I like it.

One question. I would like to implement this mod into our bargain forums to be able to have a 'hot or not' type system, with some kind of prominent indication of the 'hotness'...

So if I get you right the sum total of "good" posts would be used to determine hotness.... Or would you use the first post's rank only. First post is easier and would just require a JOIN on the existing FORUMDISPLAY page while the sum total would need some edits to the hack.

This could definitely be done although you'd have to decide how a thread is measured as hot. For example, is a thread with the most goodrankings hot or is it more than 100 good ones, 150? Etc...

A simple template conditional would show whatever graphic image you want once you sort out which data you want to use.

Is it possible to have different voting types (i.e. essentially graphics) in different forums?

Yes although the addon does not support this naively. But you could easily use a template conditional to change the images in select forums or to be more efficient and deal with larger numbers of forums, add a new option to the forums to control this.

And is it possible to quickly implement certain voting types into the required forums? E.g. with over 300 forums, I would like to be able to, for example, click a parent forum and specify that I want the hot or not type voting system in it and all its sub forums.

There's a bulk editor that allows you to enable this in all forums, certain forums, or all forums except certain forums. Nothing is in place to deal with forum hierarchy though so you can't pick 3 out of 4 top level categories or anything like that.

Sounds like an interesting feature you're working towards... Can't wait to see it in action!