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 postcd

In my case 1 and also 2 hides all posts, even first post. posts which are even non negative rated. I think its a bug and only negative posts should not be visible..? .

Typo on my part.

-2

Logic used:

($post['goodrank'] - $post['totalrank']) < $this->registry->options['helpans_hidelownum']

[dougdirac]

any screenshots of what a hidden post looks like? Do you click to view?

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by dougdirac

any screenshots of what a hidden post looks like? Do you click to view?

Right, the entire post contents are replaced with a very short block of text that has a link to expand back the post (we use a hidden div to make it happen).

The default phrase is "The post by {1} is hidden due to low votes. Click expand to view it" but of you can of course change that, add details, images, whatever you like.

[postcd]

When i add -1 it dont hide 1 negative votes posts. why?

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by postcd

When i add -1 it dont hide 1 negative votes posts. why?

It's a greater then statement so > -1 is -2, -3, etc... So you enter whatever the minimum value of posts you want to have show.

Clearly not how the option describes it but we'll probably change the phrase rather than the logic to avoid any adverse impact to forums that already have a value in.

[tpearl5]

Any thoughts on importing vbseo likes into helpful answers?

The likes system and vbseo in general has going to the toilet.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by tpearl5

Any thoughts on importing vbseo likes into helpful answers?

The likes system and vbseo in general has going to the toilet.

There's no import feature at this point... not sure how they work exactly if you can explain?

[TheLastSuperman]

Originally Posted by Ted S

There's no import feature at this point... not sure how they work exactly if you can explain?

vBSEO Likes is similar to Paul's mod here on vbulletin.org where you click the heart to "like" a post but instead it was a link bottom right of postbit text in each post. Also it's very similar to DB Tech's thanks/likes system they are all very similar in concept.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by TheLastSuperman

vBSEO Likes is similar to Paul's mod here on vbulletin.org where you click the heart to "like" a post but instead it was a link bottom right of postbit text in each post. Also it's very similar to DB Tech's thanks/likes system they are all very similar in concept.

Thanks!

Obviously if it's just a straight like, importing the data would be rather simple (loop the votes, add a record for each, resync the totals on the post).

The question is of course: why do it and does it match the user's expectation? I like a lot of things but are they helpful? Not sure it's the same...

[Loget]

Dear Ted S,

I would like to install your modification however was wondering if there was a port available from https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=231666?

Thanks.