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 CvP

Hi Ted.

Will you consider a feature to list user names (who voted) beside the post like the other "thank you hack"?

Sure.

[CvP]

Originally Posted by Ted S

Sure.

thanks a LOT!

I have held off installing that hack till now on vB 4 that is. Everyone just loved it in vB 3.

so i guess we will eagerly wait for this feature

[Ranger187]

Ted, just noticed this..

If I'm in Admin CP > Plugins & Products > Manage Products and click the Helpfull answers one it takes me to https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?p=233296 instead of this thread.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Ranger187

Ted, just noticed this..

If I'm in Admin CP > Plugins & Products > Manage Products and click the Helpfull answers one it takes me to https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?p=233296 instead of this thread.

Think I'll have to fix that

[James T Brock]

Originally Posted by Ted S

Depends on how easy the code is to port back.

The 3.8 version has something like double the installs, seems like it would be worth giving it at the very least equal consideration.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by James T Brock

The 3.8 version has something like double the installs, seems like it would be worth giving it at the very least equal consideration.

Installs are a misleading stat but I agree, provided that both versions are managable.

[kmohamed]

ok great mod in vb3 i consider this very useful mod
however in vb4 it seem like i lost all of the old data
i have back-up for my data in vb3 do you know if i am able to pull up the old data and put it in vb4? how?
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i tried fresh installtion for vb4 and nothing is showing in the threads i try to put the code manually and is still not working

again thanx for the great mod

[Rafa-el]

Problems with this two variables:
{vb:raw post.rate_helpfulanswer} - True if the user can rate the post (false if they are banned or have rated it).
{vb:raw post.helpfulanswerid} - True if the user has already rated the post.

Not showing up using the 10 point scale.

[kmohamed]

Originally Posted by kmohamed

ok great mod in vb3 i consider this very useful mod
however in vb4 it seem like i lost all of the old data
i have back-up for my data in vb3 do you know if i am able to pull up the old data and put it in vb4? how?
--
i tried fresh installtion for vb4 and nothing is showing in the threads i try to put the code manually and is still not working

again thanx for the great mod

i am sorry is working i only have to enable it from the forum setting i am sorry ..
please if you have a chance
***i have a back-up for my data in vb3 do you know if i am able to pull up the old data for your mod and put it in vb4? how? plz

[wesooby]

Hello!

First - THANK YOU so MUCH for this AWESOME Add On!!

I have someone helping me try to modify it a bit, but we can't quite get it. What we want to do is to tie the Helpful hack with uCash
: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=227910

So, when someone says a post is Helpful, then they get some uCash.

The person who is helping us tried for a few hours... and he says he can't figure it out. He said "I can't find the door..." If you could give us any clues or direction... that would be SO appreciated!

THANKS!!