About this hack:
One of the biggest problems on forums as you may know is 'posts boosting'. There are users who LOVE to say 'thanks' when ever they can. How can it hurt? Their post count goes up, they have nothing to loose.
There are also users who really like to express their thanks to post but don't like posting a post that looks like they're post boosting.
Then comes the moderators who have to delete people's thanks yous so a thread can look readable with out the thanks yous thrown around.
Finally comes the posters of these useful posts. They have no idea how many people really likes their posts if only some people say 'thanks'.
What this hack does is fix ALL these problems - except those users who like post boosting. This places a button called 'thanks.' When a user clicks on it, it places his username in a box right under the post saying that so-and-so says 'thanks' for the post. Every-one who clicks is placed in one box.
By giving your users the extra feature, you forum will look allot nice and organized. It is a guaranteed liking by ALL the members of your forum.
New option: Remove User's Thanks Count When Deleting Post
New phrase: post_thanks_search_user_gave
FIX User reputation level now updates. (Thanks to liwo for this one.)
NEW Added option to view all posts a user has thanked.
FIX Fixed Special Action - Delete All of a Users Thanks
FIX Should have fixed some 'foreach()' errors.
Version 7.3 (03/15/08):
Updated file: functions_post_thanks.php
Updated template: post_thanks_memberinfo_block
Deleted template: post_thanks_memberinfo_css
New option: Choice to use Markup Usernames or not. (Thanks to Namaless)
New option: Ban User from Getting Thanks
New option: Max Thanks a User can Give Per Day
FIX Fixed repeating bug on vb 3.6.7 forums.
CHANGE Changed where the post thanks info shows on the Profile Page. Moved to same box as statistics. (This will require a template edit if you are running vb3.7 beta 2-4)
Added securty token check for all thanks added. This will prevent a user from giving out a link or somehow making an image that will get him a lot of thanks.
Should have fixed some 'foreach()' errors.
Fixed Delete All of a Users Thanks bug
vBulletin 3.7.x compatible only
Version 7.6 (06/02/08):
FIX: Fixed Security Check for vb 3.7.1
Updated files: functions_post_thanks.php
Version 7.7 (07/28/08):
FIX: Fixed problem with giving thanks using Blazer (palmOS browser).
Has anyone with a larger forum had problems installing this? I have about 3.5 million posts and about 145k members and when I do a new install into v3.7 rc-2 and hit import (xml) the screen goes blank and seems to hang there until it times out.
I had no problems at all installing it into a beta 3 forum with about 500,000 posts and then upgrading the forum to rc-2. Went very smoothly.
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I am not quite as large as you as we are just under 900k posts but we do have over 2.7 million thanks issued on the board and it runs well since about the v5.x mark. Pre-v5.x was a killer with a lot of thanks.
Without question a great hack. But unfortunately, ever since installed. Internet explorer won't function properly with our VB forum. Won't display gifs posted on the navbar? I am assuming it has to do with this hack. Any ideas as to why this may be the case?
Hello, im using this hack for over 2 months now, and i got a question
most of my members are regular to just reply 'thanks'
or 'thanks man' etc
is there a way to detect these replys and add them to the post thank you count ?
*thank*
something like this?
when posting thanks can you make so a special icon appear on the forum sections thread, since its better if to know who that just used the thank you button
Hi! great add on! will help me tidy up a specific sub forum.
quick question : is there anyway I remove the thank you counts from the user info?
I do not really want this feature as I want the thank u part only for a tiny subforum and doesnt apply for all users. thanks in advance.
Hi! great add on! will help me tidy up a specific sub forum.
quick question : is there anyway I remove the thank you counts from the user info?
I do not really want this feature as I want the thank u part only for a tiny subforum and doesnt apply for all users. thanks in advance.
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04-09-2008, 03:19 AM
