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 tpearl5

Hi Ted - that worked - only problem is none of the settings in the admincp seem to be affecting anything - for example, the rating display only displays as text despite the setting in the admincp.

What setting do you have for this?

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by bposner

I have the same issue, the program shows up, the helpfulanswers.php displays database, the profile seems to be updated, but no graphics, nor no 10 point scale when enabled.

We're gettin' closer

So you're just getting the simplified voting option?

[tpearl5]

Originally Posted by Ted S

What setting do you have for this?

I've tried all settings for the rating display and it doesn't change. I also tried turning on 'Manual Template Placement' because I wanted to move it higher anyway, and there was no effect.

[bposner]

Originally Posted by Ted S

So you're just getting the simplified voting option?

Assuming you mean just text, yes.
As stated the AdminCP options don't seem to have an effect, changing to 10 point, or any non default options, don't seem to grab hold.
Thanks for your time.

[Ted S]

Ok, fixed the voting options... looks like 4.0.4 requires all variables to be localized, very strange thing to change without making huge mention but so be it.

Let's give 2.3.2 beta2 a run...

[sticky]

Originally Posted by Ted S

Ok, fixed the voting options... looks like 4.0.4 requires all variables to be localized, very strange thing to change without making huge mention but so be it.

Let's give 2.3.2 beta2 a run...

Is this just a 4.0.4 compatibility update or does it include the proposed updates?

[bposner]

Nice, thanks for the quick turnaround, will try tomorrow morning when in office (I'm on Pacific Time) .

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by sticky

Is this just a 4.0.4 compatibility update or does it include the proposed updates?

Just 4.0.4 at this point. Once that's solved I'll return to updates.

[pete_brady]

looking good, thanks

[tpearl5]

Thanks Ted - Other things are working now, but I still can't get the Post Block to show up.