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.

[SamDelgado]

Anyone know when we can expect the next release?

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by SamDelgado

Anyone know when we can expect the next release?

There is a planned update for the 3.8 version. 4.0 update will come when I have enough useful features and/or correct the profile display bug.

[SamDelgado]

Sounds good

[GONUMBER6]

Ted thank you for this wonderful mod, I have been using it a few months now.

In order to stimulate user activity, I have installed vbactivity and the points market system.

Is there anyway to make it so that my users get points to their reputation in vbactivity? Right now even though I have helpful answers set to give reputation, it does not calculate rep points.

Dragonbyte Tech (maker of vbactivity) said this about the coding:

That applies for when people give eachother reputation using vBulletin's own reputation system.
It will support the Helpful Answers mod only if that mod was coded to add reputation in the same way vBulletin adds reputation.

Can this be achieved somehow?

Thanks

[mad@Max]

Ted S, how about this js

function helpfulanswers_rate(postid, rank)
{	
	var xml = new vB_AJAX_Handler();
	xml.callback = function(o){
		fetch_object('helpfulanswers_box_' + postid).innerHTML = o.responseText;
	};
	xml.send('helpfulanswers.php', '&do=helpfulanswer&using_ajax=1&p=' + postid + '&rank=' + rank);

	return false;
}

that much more laconically

[sticky]

Is there any way to make this work with the "reputation user spread" option? It seems to not pay attention to it and allow someone to neg rep the same user multiple times.

[wesooby]

Hello Ted!

Well - you are AWESOME, of course! This mod IS Mod!

I was wondering if there's any way to add an "Including YOU!" phrase to the Thanks given indicator?

Something like this:

2 out of 2 members found this post helpful. Including YOU! : ) Thank you for rating this post!

and then after

2 out of 2 members found this post helpful. Including YOU! : )

So that users revisiting posts after a while will see what they've already done?

Thanks!!

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by wesooby

Hello Ted!

Well - you are AWESOME, of course! This mod IS Mod!

I was wondering if there's any way to add an "Including YOU!" phrase to the Thanks given indicator?

Something like this:

2 out of 2 members found this post helpful. Including YOU! : ) Thank you for rating this post!

and then after

2 out of 2 members found this post helpful. Including YOU! : )

So that users revisiting posts after a while will see what they've already done?

Thanks!!

Do you know much about template conditionals?

[wesooby]

Hello Ted!!

Don't know too much... but if you could sketch out the basic idea I think I could give it a shot.

T H A N K S ! ! !

[persianpros]

Persian Language For Helpful Answers

By Persian Prince

Good Luck