Add-On Releases - [AJAX] Helpful Answers - Allow users to rate individual posts

Helpful Answers has been used to record over 6 MILLION times on more than 2,000 forums. If you're not using HA your users are looking for it!

Every day your users contribute hundreds if not thousands of posts making it hard for new members and guests to separate out the best answers from those that are less helpful. The Helpful Answers System offers your members a quick way to rate individual posts as either helpful or not allowing future visitors to understand the value of each post.

Designed to be flexible, HA has over 30 configurable settings:

• Use image or text ratings AJAX or traditional links.
• Offer yes/no or scaled 1-10 point ranking.
• Turn off negative ratings for a positive only system.
• Decide which forums are open for helpful answer ratings.
• Audit the system and identify top users and potential abusers.
• Ban specific members from using the system.
• Customize the message shown after a post is rated.
• Show a page with the top helpful posts.
• Show rating stats on a user's profile.
• Hide posts that rate "too low"
• Template driven so you can customize it all for your forum.

For advanced users template conditionals and variables let you further extend the functionality to color highlight good or bad posts, include ratings in user?s profiles and much more.

Modification Installation [Must Read]:

Step 1: Upload the addon files found in the upload/ folder to your forum directory
Step 2: Install the plugin through your vB Administration area
Step 3: Configure settings & enable the mod in individual forums

You must configure settings & enable forums before voting will show up.
Anonymous Stats Tracking (optional):

By default this addon will pass basic rating data (positive or negative) to a 3rd party site for statistical purposes. Only the most basic data is captured (the vote and your site name) and no user information or specific forum details are logged, not even an IP address. You can disable this through the admin.

Mod Philosophy -- Drive Your Own Success:

All of my mods are inspired by my work in digital marketing and are designed to drive registrations, interaction or other engagement activities the core platform does not address.

Each is designed to fit a general need by providing a starting point but it's on you to decide how to make things work to their best possible outcome. Feel free to suggest what you'd like to see next but don't wait to have what everyone else has; figure out what your forum needs and customize away.

[qubed]

Is there any way to get this to sit flush and to work in the post bit here:


That is currently where it is residing, I didn't know if there was a way to get it to work there ( preferably to the left of "PM") as I have signatures turned off for certain forums. Thanks!

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by qubed

Is there any way to get this to sit flush and to work in the post bit here:


That is currently where it is residing, I didn't know if there was a way to get it to work there ( preferably to the left of "PM") as I have signatures turned off for certain forums. Thanks!

Just have to tweak the css applied to that div [it's floated right but nothing else is set]

[TheLastSuperman]

Originally Posted by Ted S

Just a little FYI.... 1,000 posts on this thread as of today and 3 million plus logged votes [who knows how many more unlogged ones].

Glad to see the mod working for so many of you!

I've got a major new mod on the way but after that, updates coming!

*TheLastSuperman waits in anticipation!

[qubed]

Might be the wrong place to ask this, but could someone help me with the appropriate css for achieving this (Don't know css myself) and where I would need to put it exactly? I can navigate around the admincp fairly well, just don't know much about design.

Really nice mod.

[rooban12]

I got the following problem after I installed the plugin,

Threads are showing in Ascending Order when I disable the plugin, the threads are showing in Descending Order.

Please someone fix it for me.

Thank you

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by rooban12

I got the following problem after I installed the plugin,

Threads are showing in Ascending Order when I disable the plugin, the threads are showing in Descending Order.

Please someone fix it for me.

Thank you

This thread does not alter thread order or make any long term changes to your database.

There's likely a collision with another mod and you will need to test what you've got installed to find what's hitting what.

[rooban12]

I have disable all the plugin and just enable the helpful answer plugin. The result is same, all the threads are in Ascending Order.

Thank you

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by rooban12

I have disable all the plugin and just enable the helpful answer plugin. The result is same, all the threads are in Ascending Order.

Thank you

And when you disable this plugin, what happens to your threads? Have you changed the thread order setting from the default?

[rooban12]

when I disable the plugin, threads working fine, I have already changed the thread order too.
I love this plugin, please try to solve this problem

THank you

[Ted S]

Disable the option helpfulanswerorderbits in any given forum. If that doesn't work turn off the hook forumdisplay_query_threadid and tell me if that fixes it