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.

[tpearl5]

Hey Ted - I installed the update - I'm still not seeing the post block though. Am I missing something?

Edit: Now that I look at it, helpful_answers_mosthelp_post doesn't exist anymore. Is it not used in this version?

[TF4U]

Hi TED..I have successfully installed the mod in 4.0.4 with only one complain...user profile is not showing the rating... actually "http://yourdomainname.com/profile.php?do=helpfulans" link is showing the rating for the user.But normally the link is not available to the users in the user profile. I have to let them know about the link for checking their own rating. Moreover, the other users won't be able to see any other user's rating. Sorry!! but the above mentioned link will show only for the current user. Please fix this out or tell me if i m missing out something...

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by giorgino

How can we make a translations file to share for italian users?

use the phrase manager to translate as you see fit

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by TF4U

Hi TED..I have successfully installed the mod in 4.0.4 with only one complain...user profile is not showing the rating... actually "http://yourdomainname.com/profile.php?do=helpfulans" link is showing the rating for the user.But normally the link is not available to the users in the user profile. I have to let them know about the link for checking their own rating. Moreover, the other users won't be able to see any other user's rating. Sorry!! but the above mentioned link will show only for the current user. Please fix this out or tell me if i m missing out something...

I'm not sure what you mean... the page helpfulans shows the top helpful answers, it does not show individual users or votes.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by tpearl5

Hey Ted - I installed the update - I'm still not seeing the post block though. Am I missing something?

Edit: Now that I look at it, helpful_answers_mosthelp_post doesn't exist anymore. Is it not used in this version?

This is something I'm working on... doesn't look like it made it to the 4.0 version, you were the first to point it out.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by fulviods

Thanks for your nice mod!
I have a question. I would like to use this mod that affects reputation system on some sub-forums , but dont want that users can use the reputation system.
Reputation should be used only with helpful answers on some forums

How can i do that ? Thanks

This mod uses the reputation system so you need to leave it on, but could disable the output by removing it from templates or set to 0 reps per day.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by cevo

I am using vb 4.0.4 PL1 and I have successfully upgrade this mod to 2.3.2.
How I noticed 2 two

1. Some configuration label are missing

2. Once clicked to vote any useful post I got this error

Warning: curl_setopt() expects parameter 2 to be long, string given in [path]/helpfulanswers.php on line 483

I'll get the phrases fixed up in the next release.

Disable the annonymous tracking to solve the error.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by cevo

I am using vb 4.0.4 PL1 and I have successfully upgrade this mod to 2.3.2.
How I noticed 2 two

1. Some configuration label are missing

2. Once clicked to vote any useful post I got this error

Warning: curl_setopt() expects parameter 2 to be long, string given in [path]/helpfulanswers.php on line 483

Please check that the phrase setting_helpans_neg_title and setting_helpans_neg_desc work for you

[giorgino]

Originally Posted by Ted S

use the phrase manager to translate as you see fit

Sure Ted, but i would to share my translations with other users making an modname_it.xml

[CvP]

installed on 4.0.5

clicking the tup/tdown button works, but it often fails to ajax-update >.<