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 SilverBoy

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

This thread holds the vB 4 version of this mod. If you run the same version listed in the thread you have the latest version.

[SilverBoy]

Ok ted, what I can do now?

what I suppose to get after enabling "Enable Most Helpful Post Block" option?

Could you please give me screen shot?

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by SilverBoy

Ok ted, what I can do now?

what I suppose to get after enabling "Enable Most Helpful Post Block" option?

Could you please give me screen shot?

Well since you don't know what you're looking for perhaps it's there? The result is nothing fancy... just a single line of text in a colored box near the top of the thread page [nothing shows in the individual thread].

Are there enough votes on the post you are testing to make it show up?

[SilverBoy]

I have enough votes (I put 2 in this option "Minimum Rank to Show Post Block") and actually I have 5 votes in one post but no blocks in the page.

actually I get this message at top of the page "See the top rated post in this thread. Click here" if I enabled this option "Get Top Post per Thread".

another note, when enabled this option "Enable User Points" I didn't get any points in post but I get them in profile page.

[SilverBoy]

another note, in edit forum page the option "Order By Helpful Answers Votes?" doesn't make any changes when enable it or disable it !!

Again I'm using 4.1.9 :|.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by SilverBoy

another note, when enabled this option "Enable User Points" I didn't get any points in post but I get them in profile page.

I don't follow... You don't get the points but you get the points?

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by SilverBoy

another note, in edit forum page the option "Order By Helpful Answers Votes?" doesn't make any changes when enable it or disable it !!

Again I'm using 4.1.9 :|.

Alter the hook forumdisplay_query_threadid and add

echo "option enabled";

after

if($foruminfo['helpfulanswerbits'] AND $foruminfo['helpfulanswerorderbits']){

If the option is properly enabled, this message will show up with you view the page.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by SilverBoy

I have enough votes (I put 2 in this option "Minimum Rank to Show Post Block") and actually I have 5 votes in one post but no blocks in the page.

actually I get this message at top of the page "See the top rated post in this thread. Click here" if I enabled this option "Get Top Post per Thread".

another note, when enabled this option "Enable User Points" I didn't get any points in post but I get them in profile page.

Install this version of the plugin which will show debug outputs.

[SilverBoy]

Originally Posted by Ted S

I don't follow... You don't get the points but you get the points?

as you said in admin option "If enabled, users will have votes on their posts counted to display in the postbit template, their profile, etc" this option will display the total # of votes in postbit template and in profile, for me it displayed only in profile page, but it not appear in postbit.

[SilverBoy]

Originally Posted by Ted S

Install this version of the plugin which will show debug outputs.

I installed it, I get only this line before the header
"debugging...show blockdebugging...show blockdebugging...show blockdebugging...show blockdebugging...show blockdebugging...show blockdebugging...show block "