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.

[marr]

> I'm also facing this problem, I cant see any message or thumbs up pic to rate

same here. vb 4.0.4 Patch Level 1, double checked notice in red. unregistered users see links tho.
when user signed in - there is empty div per post:

<div id="helpfulanswers_box_16" style="text-align:right;">		
   <br><hr size="1" style="color:$stylevar[tborder_bgcolor]">
</div>

thanks

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Astyanax

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

Not at all. An image is copyrighted unless stated otherwise. This mod includes a few sites that most people like; if you want to use your own, the mod fully supports that.

[fulviods]

I would like to use helpful answers only on some forums and not all. I also would like that this system increase reputation, but i dont want to activate/show the reputation system. It is possible? If I dont activate the reputation system in vb but inside the helpful answers setting i activate reputation will it work? Thanks!

[TF4U]

I am using vbulletin 4.0.4 and tried my level best to get this mod work for my forum. But I failed. For unregistered user it shows but not for registered users. I have enabled the helpful ans in vbulletin options as well as in forums.

[bposner]

Originally Posted by TF4U

I am using vbulletin 4.0.4 and tried my level best to get this mod work for my forum. But I failed. For unregistered user it shows but not for registered users. I have enabled the helpful ans in vbulletin options as well as in forums.

I just tried this, and it works the same way for my install too (had the guest access on) which is as it should be and requests I register, but users that are logged in can't see the little question.

[bposner]

I had posted this in the wrong version of the forum.. (3.8) so I'll re post here in the correct version forum.

Installed this, see nothing.. ?? no errors on install, using version 2.3.1 of this product.
forum is enabled and went through the posts here and no suggestion seemed to work. simple install. I do see that if I check the ability for guests to see it, the question does show up, so I know the forum is activated, but other users, even ADMIN can't see it. I've tried different browsers sill no question, only guests and only if the guest option is checked.
Thanks

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by bposner

I had posted this in the wrong version of the forum.. (3.8) so I'll re post here in the correct version forum.

Installed this, see nothing.. ?? no errors on install, using version 2.3.1 of this product.
forum is enabled and went through the posts here and no suggestion seemed to work. simple install. I do see that if I check the ability for guests to see it, the question does show up, so I know the forum is activated, but other users, even ADMIN can't see it. I've tried different browsers sill no question, only guests and only if the guest option is checked.
Thanks

What version of vBulletin are you running?

[bposner]

Originally Posted by Ted S

What version of vBulletin are you running?

thank you for your reply.
4.0.4

[bposner]

Here are my settings

[TF4U]

@TED
have u tested ur mod in vbulletin 4.0.4? asking u this becoz..i have had a hell of time and energy in process of making this mod work for me..nothing happend..