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.

[SurfTalk]

Originally Posted by Ted S

very very strange.

I'm not able to duplicate your error but what's really wierd is that the function can_administer isn't used in this script. Is there any more detail in the error like the path or other files which may help me track this down?

Sorry Ted I think i've confused things by listing two seperate issues in quick succession. The error message containing "can_administer" has been fixed - I'd uploaded the wrong .php file - my bad! The error I'm left with I raised in a second post (I've uninstalled and re-installed twice since), which is the following: I get the 1 to 10 scale, and I can place a vote on the scale and get the thank you message, but the ranking is displayed like this, "This post has been ranked $post[avgrank] out of 10 with $post[totalrank] votes" Sorry again for the confusion, hopefully this is easier to fix! I've seen reference to this problem in a french vb forum, but couldn't follow the fix!

[Pro-eSports.com]

Ted, I entered the forum ID and it doesn't work, even thread ID's don't work.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Pro-eSports.com

Ted, I entered the forum ID and it doesn't work, even thread ID's don't work.

Check the forum manager to be sure it's enabled in that forum. Thread IDs have absolutely nothing to do with this mod... it's entirely forum based.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by SurfTalk

Sorry Ted I think i've confused things by listing two seperate issues in quick succession. The error message containing "can_administer" has been fixed - I'd uploaded the wrong .php file - my bad! The error I'm left with I raised in a second post (I've uninstalled and re-installed twice since), which is the following: I get the 1 to 10 scale, and I can place a vote on the scale and get the thank you message, but the ranking is displayed like this, "This post has been ranked $post[avgrank] out of 10 with $post[totalrank] votes" Sorry again for the confusion, hopefully this is easier to fix! I've seen reference to this problem in a french vb forum, but couldn't follow the fix!

Ahh. This one I know, look for a fix tomorrow.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by SurfTalk

Sorry Ted I think i've confused things by listing two seperate issues in quick succession. The error message containing "can_administer" has been fixed - I'd uploaded the wrong .php file - my bad! The error I'm left with I raised in a second post (I've uninstalled and re-installed twice since), which is the following: I get the 1 to 10 scale, and I can place a vote on the scale and get the thank you message, but the ranking is displayed like this, "This post has been ranked $post[avgrank] out of 10 with $post[totalrank] votes" Sorry again for the confusion, hopefully this is easier to fix! I've seen reference to this problem in a french vb forum, but couldn't follow the fix!

Here's the version with these variables all fixed up. Since most people don't use the 10 scale I'm going to hold off on an update (which notifies everyone) until there's other changes.

[SurfTalk]

Originally Posted by Ted S

Here's the version with these variables all fixed up. Since most people don't use the 10 scale I'm going to hold off on an update (which notifies everyone) until there's other changes.

Ted, you're a legend! All working Many, many thanks.

[KiLLWiT]

I have 'Enable Profile Voting Stats - I & II' enabled but I am not seeing anything in the user's profile under "About Me". Is that where it's supposed to show the ratings for each user? I can't see it anywhere in their profile and I'm on vB 4.0.1. Other than that, everything else is working okay.

[Greight]

Originally Posted by vivamexico55

Possible bug: When I give myself a thumbs up (after allowing this in the settings), I get:

%1$s members found this post helpful

edit: I'm not sure what's wrong but it seems it's not saving my choice on the Rating Display (Select how the rating options should be shown.)

I choose images and it only shows the "Yes" text... this seems to modify whether the bug of %1$s shows or not. In some options it works as intended.

edit again: On further review, the problems seem to originate when I change the "Allow negative responses" setting to "No".

Same problem here. When I disable negative rating after I rate a post this is shown: %1$s members found this post helpful.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Greight

Same problem here. When I disable negative rating after I rate a post this is shown: %1$s members found this post helpful.

Strange. My test site runs this without any issues but I will check more over the weekend.

[Greight]

Originally Posted by Ted S

Strange. My test site runs this without any issues but I will check more over the weekend.

Thanks dude