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]

Phew that's a long list. I think we can start cutting into it though...

How about the ability to set daily voting limits (done now) + groups that are excluded... then the ability for mods to open a window and see who voted what... and the ability to remove said vote... and the ability to remove all votes from a user.

Working on the profile stats. That hook is being very unhelpful, not sure why why.

[Verionia]

Updated one still doesnt work for me, please help me!!

[kmohamed]

is great new feature it looks great but is not working at all
thanx for the hard work

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Verionia

Updated one still doesnt work for me, please help me!!

Let's review.

1.... Do you have modified or original postbit templates?
2.... Have you enabled the mod in the forum you're viewing?
3.... Have you changed any of the options?

[FractalizeR]

How about the ability to set daily voting limits (done now) + groups that are excluded... then the ability for mods to open a window and see who voted what... and the ability to remove said vote... and the ability to remove all votes from a user.

Thanks, Ted. That would be excellent.

[sevenmix]

Waiting for the update in the profile stats, i didnt mark the negative votes as possible.

Great mod,

[FractalizeR]

I think, the data in profile should be separated into new tab. The code is here.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by FractalizeR

I think, the data in profile should be separated into new tab. The code is here.

Thanks!!!

[FractalizeR]

Welcome Your addon is GREAT!

[Alex@Mk3OC]

I'm thinking about using this to replace our current post thanks mod, but I have a couple of questions.

- Is it possible to only use this in certain forums?
- Is there a way of displaying in the users postbit how many helpful posts they have?