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.

[vivamexico55]

Originally Posted by FractalizeR

Are you sure your style has all template template hooks in place? Check with developer. Plugin is in place, but it seems that template hook which is rendering voting buttons in place does not work.

I don't believe it is the style's problem because browsing with the default style doesn't work either:

http://www.leforo.com/forum.php?styleid=13

The thing is the plugin is there because you can see the ratings some old posts have, but you can't rate posts anymore. I think it's an issue with this plugin. Something happened from upgrade to 4.03 to 4.04.

[Ted S]

I have not had a chance to run 4.0.4 yet and will look into this on the weekend.

[FractalizeR]

I have it working on 4.0.4. Rating icons (pluses in my case) are in place.

[vivamexico55]

Originally Posted by FractalizeR

I have it working on 4.0.4. Rating icons (pluses in my case) are in place.

That sucks (for me). Any idea why it's not showing on my site? I've double checked all the regular options. Should I uninstall and install again?

[FractalizeR]

Originally Posted by vivamexico55

I don't believe it is the style's problem because browsing with the default style doesn't work either:

http://www.leforo.com/forum.php?styleid=13

I don't see any default style on your forum. Default style is like here: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/

In default style there is a style selection box at the bottom of the page. May be your Default style is also changed. But you can revert templates to check, I think.


Ted, did you have a chance to look at my patches? I've sent you private message, but no reply.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by vivamexico55

That sucks (for me). Any idea why it's not showing on my site? I've double checked all the regular options. Should I uninstall and install again?

Let's go through the basics... Are you sure it's enabled in that forum (check again as an update could reset this variable), and that you have the auto placement in place.

[sticky]

Originally Posted by sticky

Ted, would you be able to help with me with this please? I use helpful answers with the rep system but users are abusing the neg reps.

Feeling like my text is invisible

[Ken Sanders]

Thanks for this mod! Goes great with the VBexperience.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by sticky

Feeling like my text is invisible

I have not had a chance to look into this but am very well aware of your post.

[vivamexico55]

Originally Posted by Ted S

Let's go through the basics... Are you sure it's enabled in that forum (check again as an update could reset this variable), and that you have the auto placement in place.

Yep, I've triple checked that & ran the bulk updater again and no dice, but here's an image anyway, thanks for replying: