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.

[FractalizeR]

Phrasing bug:
Template helpful_statsbit:

There should be something like this:

            <dl class="stats">
                <dt>{vb:rawphrase helpfulanswer_postshavebeen}</dt>
                <dd>{vb:raw helpfulanswer_goodranks} {vb:rawphrase helpfulanswer_from} {vb:raw helpfulanswer_totalranks}</dd>
            </dl>

Because current content is rendered incorrectly. This is not a fix, I am still looking into issue. Can you look also? I can't quite understand, what really should be there.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by FractalizeR

BUG:
With "Hide Negative Posts" enabled and "Hide Negative Posts - Count" > 0 all unvoted posts are hidden.

The cause:

Line 954 in xml: 
if($vbulletin->options['helpans_hidelow'] AND (($post['goodrank'] - $post['totalrank']) < $vbulletin->options['helpans_hidelownum']) ){

The solution:
Change the above line to:

if($vbulletin->options['helpans_hidelow'] AND (($post['totalrank'] - $post['goodrank']) > $vbulletin->options['helpans_hidelownum']) ){

Good catch, although anyone sending this over 0 is setting themselves up for failure...

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by vivamexico55

Ted, do you think uninstalling and reinstalling would fix the fact that it doesn't show on my forum?

It's possible but unlikely to help. The only other solution I can offer is to take a look myself if you are comfertable with me logging in to your site.

[Astyanax]

I will use this MOD but I dont like the look of the thumb up and down. Can you update with more modern thumb icons?

[FractalizeR]

Have you checked options?

[Astyanax]

Originally Posted by FractalizeR

Have you checked options?

Yes, but the thumbs are still ugly. Why not use something like this: http://www.psdgraphics.com/wp-conten...down-icons.jpg

or this: http://static-p3.fotolia.com/jpg/00/...kDrLbNxSJI.jpg

Search results on Google: http://www.google.se/images?um=1&hl=...=&oq=&gs_rfai=

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Astyanax

Yes, but the thumbs are still ugly. Why not use something like this: http://www.psdgraphics.com/wp-conten...down-icons.jpg

or this: http://static-p3.fotolia.com/jpg/00/...kDrLbNxSJI.jpg

Search results on Google: http://www.google.se/images?um=1&hl=...=&oq=&gs_rfai=

You can use whatever images you want for your site. The ones in this mod were created by users for public use; I can not include general images found on the web, they are copyrighted.

[Astyanax]

I thought icons available in icon archives on Internet were free to use? Anyway, I can change this myself I guess?

[FractalizeR]

If you find a good set of icons, please post them here

[Astyanax]

Originally Posted by FractalizeR

If you find a good set of icons, please post them here

Ok!

http://www.freeiconsdownload.com/Fre...ads.asp?id=265

http://www.freeiconsdownload.com/Fre...ads.asp?id=307

Smaller icons:

http://www.freeiconsdownload.com/Fre...ads.asp?id=227

http://www.freeiconsdownload.com/Fre...ads.asp?id=608