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.

[Verionia]

Originally Posted by Ted S

Each user? No. The user who is viewing it, yes. Just enabe the 10 point voting scale and add your star images for values 1-5.

Sorry I am running a product review forum. Don't know if you could add some add ons like - only the user who made the post can rate the product with a post once from a scale of 1-5. An option for only the owner of the post to rate with stars. Thx!

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by TimberFloorAu

Just checking error logs, we are getting hundreds of error messages:

Such as:

Database error in vBulletin 4.0.1:
 
Invalid SQL:
 
               SELECT post.postid,post.title as posttile,helpfulpost.goodrank,helpfulpost.totalrank,helpfulpost.lastvote,
                       thread.threadid,thread.title as title,thread.postusername as postusername,forum.title as ftitle ,goodrank as avgrank
 
               FROM yobromofhelpfulpost as helpfulpost
               INNER JOIN yobromofpost AS post ON(helpfulpost.postid = post.postid)
               INNER JOIN yobromofthread AS thread ON(post.threadid = thread.threadid)
               INNER JOIN yobromofforum AS forum ON(thread.forumid = forum.forumid)
               WHERE goodrank > 0
 
 
               ORDER BY avgrank desc
               LIMIT 0, 25;
 
MySQL Error   : Column 'goodrank' in field list is ambiguous
Error Number  : 1052
Request Date  : Friday, February 5th 2010 @ 10:04:32 AM
Error Date    : Friday, February 5th 2010 @ 10:04:32 AM
Script        : http://www.yobromofo.com/forum/helpfulanswers.php
Referrer      :
IP Address    : 67.195.112.247
Username      : Unregistered
Classname     : vB_Database
MySQL Version :

Disable this page, I will have this bug resolved this weekend.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Verionia

Sorry I am running a product review forum. Don't know if you could add some add ons like - only the user who made the post can rate the product with a post once from a scale of 1-5. An option for only the owner of the post to rate with stars. Thx!

Sounds like you need a different modification or to extend this for your specific use...

[TimberFloorAu]

Cheers Ted

[Ted S]

Version 2.1.6 has been released which fixes an SQL query error for some users when viewing the most helpful answers page.

[TimberFloorAu]

Cheers TED will try now :yes: and report back

*installed.

All good at the Mo fingers crossed. No errors to report yet

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by TimberFloorAu

Cheers TED will try now :yes: and report back

*installed.

All good at the Mo fingers crossed. No errors to report yet

No faith

[vivamexico55]

I'm glad this modification is supported, I'm eagerly awaiting vbulletin 4.02 to install it and test it, keep up the good work =)

Originally Posted by tafreeh

good hack...

Suggestion: add a stats in each user info(where username, post counts shows) in post bit or postbil legacy.. and i will replace this with other Thank you hack

Cheers

This might be interesting, yes.

[TimberFloorAu]

Originally Posted by Ted S

No faith

Mate when a coder, like yourself sorts stuff out, faith plays a big part in our trust.

Yet again , great fix. No issues at all. Love it.

Now question for you please.

Is it at all possible to embed a background Image, and sit the Yes/no images on top ?

Similar to this ... ( Just made this graphic so apologies for quality )

[TimberFloorAu]

Also daft question.

Is there a reverse system.

For example.

Thread starter posts really useful stuff. So the Helpful answer system appears just on the very first post, and then viewers can click helpful yes or no, but the graphic does not appear on subsequent replies.

Ste