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.

[mandingo]

Originally Posted by rammieone

Top Helpful Answers Page:

This is disabled by default. Once enabled you can find it at www.yoursite.com/forums/helpfulanswers.php
how do i enable this option??

In settings:
Enable Most Helpful Answers
Displays a page of the top answers (posts) based on overall votes.

[Dr.osamA]

ander testing

thanxxxx

installed
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[AzzidReign]

This is an amazing mod! Thank you!

[Dr.osamA]

opsssssss

Many of the problems

Waiting ...........

[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

[Ted S]

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 has been discussed before but poses load issues. I will be adding a similar feature in the future.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Dr.osamA

opsssssss

Many of the problems

Waiting ...........

???

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by mandingo

What would be the variable to show how many total votes a user has?

The user? This variable does not exist at this time... You could run a query to fetch it.

[relaxiha]

Hello. Any place that I did not! Please see updates because apparently does not work well and does not show the form!

[KevinGupta]

Installed and works great
Waiting for more updates etc

Do you reckon it will be a good idea to allow some usergroups for this?