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.

[rooban12]

Solved it..... thanks for your time mate

[rhoula]

This is what I m getting:

Database error in vBulletin 4.0.0:

Invalid SQL:
UPDATE forum SET helpfulanswerbits = 1;

MySQL Error : Unknown column 'helpfulanswerbits' in 'field list'
Error Number : 1054
Request Date : Friday, January 6th 2012 @ 08:40:22 AM
Error Date : Friday, January 6th 2012 @ 08:40:22 AM
Script : http://checkthisup.com/admincp/helpf...php?do=do_bulk
Referrer : http://checkthisup.com/admincp/helpf...rs.php?do=bulk
IP Address : 68.12.xxx.xx
Username : rhoula
Classname : vB_Database
MySQL Version : 5.1.56

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by rhoula

This is what I m getting:

Your install did not update the database properly. Run this query:

ALTER TABLE forum ADD 'helpfulanswerorderbits' INT(10) UNSIGNED NOT NULL DEFAULT '0';

If you use prefixes on your database, be sure to add them in (i.e. vb_forum).

[Winter Sonata]

Sorry, this problem happened to be either : 4.1.10

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

I read your fix but can't locate where is : helpfulanswerorderbits and there is no hook called : forumdisplay_query_threadid

Thanks alot!

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Winter Sonata

Sorry, this problem happened to be either : 4.1.10


I read your fix but can't locate where is : helpfulanswerorderbits and there is no hook called : forumdisplay_query_threadid

Thanks alot!

It's in your plugin manager.

[Winter Sonata]

Thankd Ted S

Disable the hook doesn't help and I can't figure out where should I diable this option : helpfulanswerorderbits

Thanks for the support and sorry if bothering.

[howit]

its working on 4.1.9.

Any how to put the "thank" count in the postbit_legacy?

[vAsia]

Could you do one for thread in forumdisplay.php?

It will look like reddit.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by vAsia

Could you do one for thread in forumdisplay.php?

It will look like reddit.

This mod rates posts. If you want something to rate threads it would be an entirely separate codebase or, you could port this addon as you see fit.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by howit

its working on 4.1.9.

Any how to put the "thank" count in the postbit_legacy?

What do you mean?