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.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by 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.

Your post makes no sense. If you haven't disabled the hook how can you know if it helps or not?

[SilverBoy]

I just installed the product and test it

I didn't get any thing according this option "Enable Most Helpful Post Block" is it not working as it says? I used vb4.1.9 !!

[SilverBoy]

another Q, what this option do exactly? "Enable Single Post Voting"??

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by SilverBoy

I just installed the product and test it

I didn't get any thing according this option "Enable Most Helpful Post Block" is it not working as it says? I used vb4.1.9 !!

How is it not working? Is there a post with votes? Does it have enough votes to meet the secondary threshold? Have you configured your templates in a way that may have removed the needed hook? Without being specific I can't help.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by SilverBoy

another Q, what this option do exactly? "Enable Single Post Voting"??

From the admin options page:

If enabled, users will only be able to vote on one post in a single thread. <strong>Adds one query to each SHOWTHREAD page.</strong>

[SilverBoy]

Yes I have posts with votes, I changed the threshold to (2) votes, and I installed it in test board with default style (no changes made).

From the admin options page:

If enabled, users will only be able to vote on one post in a single thread. <strong>Adds one query to each SHOWTHREAD page.</strong>

I don't have description in admin options page for this option that is why I asked .

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by SilverBoy

Yes I have posts with votes, I changed the threshold to (2) votes, and I installed it in test board with default style (no changes made).


I don't have description in admin options page for this option that is why I asked .

Is the cookie lgv getting set?

[SilverBoy]

what do you mean with lgv?

Actually I get confused, is there newer version than what this thread has?

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by SilverBoy

what do you mean with lgv?

My mistake, I'm mixing up mods.

Have you edited your showthread template manually?

Originally Posted by SilverBoy

Actually I get confused, is there newer version than what this thread has?

This is the 4.x version of the mod...

[SilverBoy]

no I don't edit any template it is test board with vb4 default style !!

Actually I get confused, is there newer version than what this thread has?

I mean is there a newer version than 2.4? I asked because of the difference in admin options description and lgv cookies