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 CvP

installed on 4.0.5

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

Is this constant (like all 3rd votes, all negatives, all admins)? If not, it sounds like a server connection. Either the code registers or it doesn't...

[CvP]

no, not constant. but never mind that. I have bigger problem.

the collapse post if negative rated is working but kinda broken.
it says to "[...] click expand to view it" but the arrow to the far right is faced upwards instead of downwards.
and clicking it doesn't do anything.

also, the collapse doesn't work on non-legacy post bit and breaks the layout a little.

any idea what could be the problem?

[tpearl5]

Originally Posted by Ted S

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.

Oh okay - good to know. I noticed that $thread[toppost] wasn't working either. Those two features are something I really liked in the 3.8 version.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by CvP

no, not constant. but never mind that. I have bigger problem.

the collapse post if negative rated is working but kinda broken.
it says to "[...] click expand to view it" but the arrow to the far right is faced upwards instead of downwards.
and clicking it doesn't do anything.

also, the collapse doesn't work on non-legacy post bit and breaks the layout a little.

any idea what could be the problem?

Have you modified your postbit templates? Are you using legay or regular? How modified is your site?

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by tpearl5

Oh okay - good to know. I noticed that $thread[toppost] wasn't working either. Those two features are something I really liked in the 3.8 version.

Correct, these were not ported into the vb4 version but are now on the roadmap.

[CvP]

Originally Posted by Ted S

Have you modified your postbit templates? Are you using legay or regular? How modified is your site?

only 3 templates are modified. things like video bbcode fullscreen, one link in header and additional css.

im currently on legacy. post collapses properly, but wont expand.
on regular, it wont even collapse.

you can view it in here: http://banglagamer.com/go/t10230

[10 Gauge]

I am having a problem with this product changing the layout of my forum when it is enabled. When enabled it gets rid of the white background behind the posts, this happens in all forums. I have included screenshots. White background is product disabled, flag background is with product enabled. Please help, I would love to use this product! Thanks.

It seems to be nulling my body_background and postbit_background stylevars.

Running 4.0.5 with most recent release of this product.

[CvP]

Originally Posted by 10 Gauge

I am having a problem with this product changing the layout of my forum when it is enabled. When enabled it gets rid of the white background behind the posts, this happens in all forums. I have included screenshots. White background is product disabled, flag background is with product enabled. Please help, I would love to use this product! Thanks.

It seems to be nulling my body_background and postbit_background stylevars.

Running 4.0.5 with most recent release of this product.

same problem when i use regular post bit + hide neg rated post is enabled.

[10 Gauge]

Originally Posted by CvP

same problem when i use regular post bit + hide neg rated post is enabled.

+1 dude, hope this gets fixed. But ur saying if I disable hide neg rated posts it will work?

[CvP]

Originally Posted by 10 Gauge

+1 dude, hope this gets fixed. But ur saying if I disable hide neg rated posts it will work?

at least it works for me.
or you can switch to legacy postbit, that should work also.

but in my case (legacy postbit), hidden neg rated posts can't be viewed