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 struff

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

Thanks.

thats up to you and how you want to use that mod

[struff]

Originally Posted by 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.

Oh, I didn't realize that was down there before. But anyway, yes, it's checked.

[dtribble]

Hi Ted,

Great mod!

Sorry if this has already been asked. Is there a way to see someone's total helpful points (when using the 10-point scale) on their profile page? Any way to show it in the postbit?

Also, is there any way to show the top 10 most helpful users in a sidebar widget?

-Damon

[struff]

I deleted this because it wasn't working and I wanted to reinstall it. But it did not delete the options in my ACP. How can I manually fully uninstall everything so I can start with a fresh clean slate?

Thanks.

[Chirag patel]

Can users who are not registered rate specific forum posts?

Also I would like to ask you to consider a feature where if a user is not registered and wants to rate a specific post, he/she should use reCaptcha to verify their identity.

Also another things to consider is that allow only up to X number of pposts they can rate.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by struff

I deleted this because it wasn't working and I wanted to reinstall it. But it did not delete the options in my ACP. How can I manually fully uninstall everything so I can start with a fresh clean slate?

Thanks.

Try installing the file again and then removing it, vBulletin gets plugins stuck from time to time and forgets to remove parts

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Chirag patel

Can users who are not registered rate specific forum posts?

Nope

Also I would like to ask you to consider a feature where if a user is not registered and wants to rate a specific post, he/she should use reCaptcha to verify their identity.

Also another things to consider is that allow only up to X number of pposts they can rate.

I'll add them both to the suggestion list.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by dtribble

Hi Ted,

Great mod!

Sorry if this has already been asked. Is there a way to see someone's total helpful points (when using the 10-point scale) on their profile page? Any way to show it in the postbit?

Also, is there any way to show the top 10 most helpful users in a sidebar widget?

-Damon

You can access the variables {vb:raw post.helpfulcnt} and {vb:raw post.hagoodrank}

[struff]

Originally Posted by Ted S

Try installing the file again and then removing it, vBulletin gets plugins stuck from time to time and forgets to remove parts

Got it.

Thanks!

[giraffesyo]

I get a path error when anonymous reporting is on. Would love to help you with the data collection but not if it shows an error message ;P. Any ideas?