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

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

This weekend...

[bfdzio]

Originally Posted by Ted S

This weekend...

Awesome, set me up with a donation link and i'll gladly help you out. This rating system literally calms my board. They are rabid football fans.

How hard would it be to code the collapsing of posts based on a NET total for votes? Reason I ask is because some people just are idiots and don't like certain people, and will always rate them down. I have one poster who could post a really good write up and he would have +40/-10. I can set it to -9 to collapse at -10...but I don't want a post with +40 and a net of +30 to be hidden.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by bfdzio

Awesome, set me up with a donation link and i'll gladly help you out. This rating system literally calms my board. They are rabid football fans.

How hard would it be to code the collapsing of posts based on a NET total for votes? Reason I ask is because some people just are idiots and don't like certain people, and will always rate them down. I have one poster who could post a really good write up and he would have +40/-10. I can set it to -9 to collapse at -10...but I don't want a post with +40 and a net of +30 to be hidden.

Not hard.. I'll add it in

[11133]

is it posible to restrict the member based on helpfull answers

i have mod with who members below xx cant view link/images/attachments

byt spammers make it fast,... and can i integrate this so if they have xx helpfull answers to can gave the permision

thanks

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by 11133

is it posible to restrict the member based on helpfull answers

i have mod with who members below xx cant view link/images/attachments

byt spammers make it fast,... and can i integrate this so if they have xx helpfull answers to can gave the permision

thanks

It is not.

[11133]

any other hack where i can limit member permision (view attachment, links images)
based on helpfull answers

[CvP]

Originally Posted by 11133

any other hack where i can limit member permision (view attachment, links images)
based on helpfull answers

no.
however, you can take a mod that limits attachment/images based on anything....then go and change that "anything" to helpful ans variables.

[11133]

Originally Posted by CvP

no.
however, you can take a mod that limits attachment/images based on anything....then go and change that "anything" to helpful ans variables.

i use Advanced Permissions Based on User's Post Count
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...27s+Post+Count

how can integrate it instead post count to grab from helpfull answers number

thanks in advanced

[Britmovie]

Hi I installed as directed on www.britmovie.net/britforum but nothing shows. Using the latest of your mod and vb and default theme? Am I missing permissions somewhere?

[CvP]

Originally Posted by 11133

i use Advanced Permissions Based on User's Post Count
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...27s+Post+Count

how can integrate it instead post count to grab from helpfull answers number

thanks in advanced

I'll take a look into it but it'll take time. I'll be busy for next few days.