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.

[faisaly.com]

Great thanx this will let users feel at comfort now... and feel fair...

Is there a way that can hide posts with overall negative ratings? currently there is only an option which hides any post that gets just a negative rate ! if some others rate that post as postive it will still remain hidden. and there is also another setting which we can specify how many negative ratings can cause a post to get hidden! this is useless too , because i need a way to hide only the overall negative posts . what if the now negative posts , get positive later , or what happens to a post which has 40 rates in total , and only lets say 5 votes are negative , this will cause the whole post to get hidden which is undesirable .

[webmajstorinet]

Hi,

i like your plugin but i'd like to replace this:
<div id="helpfulanswers_box_78186" style="text-align:right;"><br>

with this:
<div id="helpfulanswers_box_78186" style="float: right;text-align:right;">

Where do i do that? I can't seem to find the proper file.

Thanks

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by webmajstorinet

Hi,

i like your plugin but i'd like to replace this:
<div id="helpfulanswers_box_78186" style="text-align:right;"><br>

with this:
<div id="helpfulanswers_box_78186" style="float: right;text-align:right;">

Where do i do that? I can't seem to find the proper file.

Thanks

78186 is dynamically added so search your templates on helpfulanswers_box_ and you'll find it.

[Braddock]

Perhaps somebody is able to help me with a little Problem.

Why the postname is not shown right?
This is profile.php?do=helpfulans, under helpfulanswers.php the Name is shown correctly.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Braddock

Perhaps somebody is able to help me with a little Problem.

Why the postname is not shown right?
This is profile.php?do=helpfulans, under helpfulanswers.php the Name is shown correctly.

Revert your PRF templates & language file and see if it persists.

[Braddock]

I think the Problem is that helpfulfans would like to show the posttitle. But this Posts haven`t one. What do i have to change that the Threadtitle is shown?

And btw, i`m not a pro!

[Braddock]

Ok, a friend of mine helped me.

Originally Posted by changes in XML

Row 553 ff:
$helpfulposts = $db->query_read("
SELECT ha.yesno,post.title,post.postid,user.username,thre ad.title as ttitle
FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "helpfulanswer as ha
LEFT JOIN " . TABLE_PREFIX . "post as post ON (ha.postid = post.postid)
LEFT JOIN " . TABLE_PREFIX . "thread AS thread ON(post.threadid = thread.threadid)
LEFT JOIN " . TABLE_PREFIX . "user as user ON (ha.userid = user.userid)
WHERE post.userid = ". $vbulletin->userinfo['userid'] ."
ORDER BY ha.dateline DESC
LIMIT 50
");

and

Row 572:
$templater->register('title', $helpfulpost['ttitle']);

Originally Posted by changes in helpful_answers_notbit

Find in row 3

{vb:raw postid} #{vb:raw postid} -

and delete it

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Braddock

Ok, a friend of mine helped me.

If you've stopped using post titles this mod will have many other issues.

[piratarg]

Very thanks, good mod!

A help please: is possible to move here?

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by piratarg

Very thanks, good mod!

A help please: is possible to move here?

Sure. You can use the manual template placement option as explained in the install file / admin options and put it anywhere in your postbit template you like.