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.

[t18ftw]

hi, anyone know how to show only in the first post (the question) ?

[t18ftw]

Originally Posted by t18ftw

hi, anyone know how to show only in the first post (the question) ?

after 4 hours searching...

Originally Posted by Ted S

Actually there's a better way to reduce server load with this...

Open up the XML file and find:

if($this->registry->options['helpans_hidefirst'] AND $this->post['postid'] == $this->thread['firstpostid']){
$show['helpfulanswer'] = false;
$show['rate_helpfulanswer'] = false;
}

Change that to:

if($this->post['postid'] != $this->thread['firstpostid']){
 $show['helpfulanswer'] = false;
 $show['rate_helpfulanswer'] = false;
}

Now only the first post will show ratings.

[t18ftw]

guys, me again.
i need to show only the threads of the last 30 days.

anyone know how to do that?

thanks

[piratenmax]

May i have a Problem with the Add.

Since i have the Add installed, some Thread are mirrored two-, three or four times. What is wrong with me ... :-)

So please ... if some Ideas

Greetings Uli

[fxdigi-cash]

Originally Posted by piratenmax

May i have a Problem with the Add.

Since i have the Add installed, some Thread are mirrored two-, three or four times. What is wrong with me ... :-)

So please ... if some Ideas

Greetings Uli

I believe that there is a conflict with another mod. I had the same issue with this mod conflicting with VSA-admin log in as a user...

so if you have both mods installed on your vb, then you have to drop one of them to make things work fine again...

[piratenmax]

I have stopped all Add's and the Problem is the same ... some Threads are two, three or four times in the forum.

Some other ideas

Regards, Ulrich

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by piratenmax

I have stopped all Add's and the Problem is the same ... some Threads are two, three or four times in the forum.

Some other ideas

Regards, Ulrich

If you've disabled all addons the problem would not seem to be with this addon?

[piratenmax]

Originally Posted by Ted S

If you've disabled all addons the problem would not seem to be with this addon?

Sorry, i have stopped all other add's only this add was running and i have the Problem ...

Regards, Ulrich

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by piratenmax

Sorry, i have stopped all other add's only this add was running and i have the Problem ...

Regards, Ulrich

And when you disable this addon the issue goes away?

[piratenmax]

Originally Posted by Ted S

And when you disable this addon the issue goes away?

Yes ... if it disabled the Problem goes away ...!