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 bfdzio

Yeah I understand that part clearly...I think you missed the main problem though Any time a post is voted negatively and it collapses, every single post below it in the thread disappears as well/collapses, and there is no way to view them then because if you click the button to view the post, it only shows you the original collapsed post.


edit: I should say, none of this matters if we can get the 'top post block' back and running in this version I just want to have either my members be able to find what they need quickly, or to not have to see the crap. How is this coming along?

Have you customized your postbit / legacy template in a way that may have removed the last template hook or added a spare div? It sounds like the first <div> to hide the post is working, but the second one to tell the page when to stop hiding isn't there...

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by orok

Hello,
I would like to ask if i could make it for a negative only system (turn off positive ratings)
Thank you for this great job

Just use the positive only system and change the phrase and image.

[GAMENAO]

Working on 4.0.5?

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by GAMENAO

Working on 4.0.5?

Yes

[bfdzio]

Originally Posted by Ted S

Have you customized your postbit / legacy template in a way that may have removed the last template hook or added a spare div? It sounds like the first <div> to hide the post is working, but the second one to tell the page when to stop hiding isn't there...

Nope, haven't..but I'll tinker with that now that I have a general idea. Thank you.

Any update on the top rated posts block?

[bfdzio]

Originally Posted by Ted S

Have you customized your postbit / legacy template in a way that may have removed the last template hook or added a spare div? It sounds like the first <div> to hide the post is working, but the second one to tell the page when to stop hiding isn't there...

edit: I'm an idiot. See post 602.

[Jack Black]

Ok...just installed this mod on a new 4.0.5 upgrade and it doesn't appear to be working?

Cannot see any icons on posts?

[Jack Black]

Ok...working now.

[CvP]

no, that div tag is closed later. that's not the problem.

[bfdzio]

Fixed it!

I thought I had no plugins that had anything to do with the postbit but totally forgot about one of them (Add Ignore User to Postbit dropdown). Real amateur mistake by me not disabling that then trying it. I just assumed it couldn't be anything because my postbit_legacy was 100% default. Works fine now.

I'll pay for the top post block now