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.

[dianna]

Can anyone help me with the above situation?! I would really like to start using this on my site!

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by dianna

Can anyone help me with the above situation?! I would really like to start using this on my site!

What's the URL on the link and the URL for your forums? The page isn't getting found which would imply one of your settings in vBulletin is off causing the mod to link wrong

[dianna]

The url to my forums is www.militarywifecentral.com I didn't set up any link url when installing this mod was I suppose to? I didn't see that in the install instructions

[dianna]

Ok so I fiddled with it, reinstalled everything overwritting what I already had and after a little tinkering I got it to work YAY now the only thing is how/where do I go to change the verbage from "was this helpfull" to say something else?

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by dianna

Ok so I fiddled with it, reinstalled everything overwritting what I already had and after a little tinkering I got it to work YAY now the only thing is how/where do I go to change the verbage from "was this helpfull" to say something else?

Just search your Phrase Manager!

[dianna]

Thanks got it

[struff]

I installed this but I don't see anything on my site. I verified that it is turned on in the ACP.

I am using vB 4 default style and v 4.0.6.

Thanks.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by struff

I installed this but I don't see anything on my site. I verified that it is turned on in the ACP.

I am using vB 4 default style and v 4.0.6.

Thanks.

Is it turned on in the forum you are viewing?

[struff]

Originally Posted by Ted S

Is it turned on in the forum you are viewing?

I left those boxes empty. Is that correct if I want it on everywhere?

Thanks.

[dianna]

I think what he means is go to your forum manager and click on the forum section you are trying to view it on click edit and scroll down to very bottom and make sure you have use helpful answers enabled.