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.

[domi681]

Originally Posted by domi681

Hi,

I have updated the forum, 4.0.1, I installed VB4 Helpful Answers - 2.1.2.zip.

I do step 1 and 2. In step 3 I go to the forums to activate the option, but to my surprise it shows the option, why? I'm doing wrong?

Please I need your help.

help please...

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by domi681

Hi,

I have updated the forum, 4.0.1, I installed VB4 Helpful Answers - 2.1.2.zip.

I do step 1 and 2. In step 3 I go to the forums to activate the option, but to my surprise it shows the option, why? I'm doing wrong?

Please I need your help.

I'm not following your question... to your surprise it shows the option? So enable the option...

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Beermonster

Had to uninstall this which is a shame I think it's a great idea, tagged for final version.

When I click on the thumbs up it reloads my forum within the post, see attached

Remove the plugin. Delete the files.

Uninstalled. As easy as installing it.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by domi681

help please...

If you want help please be patient, this isn't live support.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by relaxiha

Warning: curl_setopt() expects parameter 2 to be long, string given in [path]/helpfulanswers.php on line 480

Disable the reporting option.

[G-man]

Originally Posted by Ted S

Which version of the addon does your AdminCP show you have installed?

We have 2.1.1 installed.

[domi681]

Hi,

I'm seeing a problem.

It turns out that VB4 Helpful Answers - 2.1.2.zip in the first message that is displayed once, if under the scroll to the second message, VB4 Helpful Answers - 2.1.2.zip, is shown twice, if the page has 10 Posts The VB4 Helpful Answers - 2.1.2.zip, increases until the message 10 and show 10 times.

You can see in the picture ...

Please how to solve this?

[Ted S]

What are your settings for this mod?

[Ranger187]

Originally Posted by G-man

When a memebr clicks on link in dropdown to see what post(s) he or she has that were marked helpful they get a blank area with this in it:

$resultsbits

Post Name Rating

Same thing here.

I installed 2.1.2 but in the plugins it says 2.1.1 (and I just reinstalled it now again)

http://www.ursite.com/profile.php?do=helpfulans =

$resultsbits Post Name Rating Username

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Ranger187

Same thing here.

I installed 2.1.2 but in the plugins it says 2.1.1 (and I just reinstalled it now again)

http://www.ursite.com/profile.php?do=helpfulans =

$resultsbits Post Name Rating Username

Please try this version and be sure the template helpful_answers_top is reverted and not using any customizations which would stop it from updating.