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.

[10 Gauge]

Thanks CvP, worked here! Hopefully we'll get a fix for that soon, I like the idea of that feature.

[cevo]

Please check that the phrase setting_helpans_neg_title and setting_helpans_neg_desc work for you

I have added the these missing variables. But still don't see any change, error is still existing.

[tpearl5]

Originally Posted by Ted S

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

Great - can't wait to see them.


Has anyone figured out how to put "Did you find this post helpful?" in line with the post title?

[CvP]

ok. this might sound stupid. but how do you remove a vote?

I used to use thanks/groans mod. that one had this easy remove thanks/groans (user could remove his; admin could remove all).

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by CvP

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

The hide bit adds a new layer to hide the post. If you have a background you should not use this option.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by CvP

ok. this might sound stupid. but how do you remove a vote?

I used to use thanks/groans mod. that one had this easy remove thanks/groans (user could remove his; admin could remove all).

There is basic moderation via the admin, more extensive admin options are still in development.

[Ted S]

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.

Are you using the hide negative rated posts option?

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by CvP

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

It sounds like your css template modifications have altered the default collapse behavoir or the behavoir in the postbit pages.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by cevo

I have added the these missing variables. But still don't see any change, error is still existing.

vBulletin does from time to time bug on installing phrases which is what happened here. These are included in the install file so you will either need to add them manually to the admin message phrase group or reinstall.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by tpearl5

Has anyone figured out how to put "Did you find this post helpful?" in line with the post title?

Using a table is the simplest way to do this, just use the manual placement option and edit your postbit / legacy template.