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 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?

Yes.
Not at this time.

[Alex@Mk3OC]

Do you have any plans to add the latter?

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Alex@Mk3OC

Do you have any plans to add the latter?

I do although i have not scooped out exactly how it would work and am open to comments.

[chriske]

On 3.8 i used a postrank mod, there was an option to hide negative posts with an X amount of negative votes.

Any chance this would be implemented in the future?

Tagged & thanks for this mod, think ill give it a try

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by chriske

On 3.8 i used a postrank mod, there was an option to hide negative posts with an X amount of negative votes.

Any chance this would be implemented in the future?

Tagged & thanks for this mod, think ill give it a try

This already exists.

[Alex@Mk3OC]

Originally Posted by Ted S

I do although i have not scooped out exactly how it would work and am open to comments.

I'd think that something simple along the line of

Helpful Posts: (number of helpful posts)

Then maybe the option to have unhelpful posts underneath it which would bemincp on whether to display them or not?

[bfdzio]

Couple of issues...first being unless I use the manual placement (which I do anyway) it would show the rating in the first post, then 2 'rating' images in the second...and 3 in the third..4 in the fourth..and so on. So basically you would have 5 or 6 thumbs up/down button sets by the 5th or 6th post..per post.

Also I just was tinkering with the 'hide negative rated posts' to see what it would do...I set it to hide a post with 2 negative ratings that was in the middle of a test thread. It hid the post and then also hid every single post underneath it.

Keep in mind in the screenshot, that the user 'Throwback' only posted once in the thread, and there are several posts after his. It looks fine when I turn it off the hide negative posts part.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by bfdzio

Couple of issues...first being unless I use the manual placement (which I do anyway) it would show the rating in the first post, then 2 'rating' images in the second...and 3 in the third..4 in the fourth..and so on. So basically you would have 5 or 6 thumbs up/down button sets by the 5th or 6th post..per post.

This bug tends to occur when people have modified their templates and duplicated or removed hooks.

Originally Posted by bfdzio

Also I just was tinkering with the 'hide negative rated posts' to see what it would do...I set it to hide a post with 2 negative ratings that was in the middle of a test thread. It hid the post and then also hid every single post underneath it.

Interesting, I'll test this further.

[kmohamed]

thanx again for the mod
there most be a bug in the {Hide Negative Posts}
because every-time i enable this option the background of all post doesn't appear and the thread that has negative rating stile showing
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is it possible to have the highest rated post to be below the thread? for specific forum?!

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by kmohamed

thanx again for the mod
there most be a bug in the {Hide Negative Posts}
because every-time i enable this option the background of all post doesn't appear and the thread that has negative rating stile showing

This is something I am looking into.