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 Greight

Any luck?

This is not on the development roadmap for this mod at this time although you could certainly add it.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Hikikomori

Would this be difficult to do? Is there a simple if statement or something similar I can add to the plugin code? Thanks.

Originally Posted by Hikikomori

Would this be difficult to do? Is there a simple if statement or something similar I can add to the plugin code? Thanks.

Pretty simple...

You can cheat and edit the template helpful_answers_roll

<vb:if condition="$show['rate_helpfulanswer']">

To something like...

<vb:if condition="$show['rate_helpfulanswer'] AND $userinfo['userid'] == post.userid">

You should of course modify the helpfulanswers.php file to insure someone can't cheat a vote as the template just controls the display of voting.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by pete_brady

option to hide low ranked posts would be great - users are really missing the old Post Ranking mod since the upgrade to vb4

This is on the roadmap for this modification and something I hope to have done soon!

[CvP]

Originally Posted by Ted S

This is on the roadmap for this modification and something I hope to have done soon!

Thank you very much :up:

[Verionia]

Originally Posted by Ted S

You will need to compare against the original template to be sure all of the template_hook calls remain in place. This addon uses postbit_messagearea_start

Still no luck, can't get it to work :/

[Greight]

Originally Posted by Ted S

This is not on the development roadmap for this mod at this time although you could certainly add it.

So can you tell me how

[CvP]

Originally Posted by Ted S

This is on the roadmap for this modification and something I hope to have done soon!

Hi Ted S.

Will you add this to 3.8 version too?

[Hikikomori]

Originally Posted by Ted S

Pretty simple...

You can cheat and edit the template helpful_answers_roll

<vb:if condition="$show['rate_helpfulanswer']">

To something like...

<vb:if condition="$show['rate_helpfulanswer'] AND $userinfo['userid'] == post.userid">

You should of course modify the helpfulanswers.php file to insure someone can't cheat a vote as the template just controls the display of voting.

Weird, I tried adding that code, but there wasn't any effect. Although I think have a bigger problem, nothing I do to change the helpful_answers_roll template takes any effect. I tried writing random text in the template, I even tried removing all text from the template, but there was no change. I've tried reinstalling and on different styles, but it was the same. Any idea what could be wrong?

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Verionia

Still no luck, can't get it to work :/

Can you post your current settings & postbit / postbit_legacy template?

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Hikikomori

Weird, I tried adding that code, but there wasn't any effect. Although I think have a bigger problem, nothing I do to change the helpful_answers_roll template takes any effect. I tried writing random text in the template, I even tried removing all text from the template, but there was no change. I've tried reinstalling and on different styles, but it was the same. Any idea what could be wrong?

There are a few templates used depending on your settings.... many people use the _roll option but you may not. Check the other helpful_answers templates.