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.

[Shill360]

Probably a long shot and it might have been asked before but: Is it possible to make this add-on work with Tapatalk?

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Shill360

Probably a long shot and it might have been asked before but: Is it possible to make this add-on work with Tapatalk?

That's something they'd have to develop at the app level.

[snakedevil]

Hello,

I want only the posts with five negative votes is hidden, how?

Thank you.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by snakedevil

Hello,

I want only the posts with five negative votes is hidden, how?

Thank you.

Build an extension to the mod or hack it to use votes to alter the template, activating a hidden style.

[Randhal007]

why i found this when i click yes for Rate ??

Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@my_domain and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

Additionally, a 500 Internal Server Error error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

thanks

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by idnews

why i found this when i click yes for Rate ??



thanks

That's not an error I can do much with. What do your server logs show happened?

[DemOnstar]

I installed it, then uninstalled it but the option (Helpful Answers still lingers in my admin cp.

How to get rid?

Thanks...

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by DemOnstar

I installed it, then uninstalled it but the option (Helpful Answers still lingers in my admin cp.

How to get rid?

Thanks...

Remove the files you uploaded.

[Bubble #5]

Works great. Love ALL of your hacks Ted!

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Bubble #5

Works great. Love ALL of your hacks Ted!

Thanks! :up: