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.

[Robb M.]

Hi Ted,

I had a lot of problems getting the mod to display for some reason. Now it displays, and ratings are working, but I keep getting this error:

Warning: curl_setopt() expects parameter 2 to be long, string given in [path]\helpfulanswers.php on line 483

Are you able to shed any light please?

cheers,
robb

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Robb M.

Hi Ted,

I had a lot of problems getting the mod to display for some reason. Now it displays, and ratings are working, but I keep getting this error:


Are you able to shed any light please?

cheers,
robb

Turn off the reporting option

[Robb M.]

Hi Ted,

Thank you very much for the quick response, that did it. :up:

cheers,
robb

[El Orans]

Running Helpful Answers 2.3.3 on vB 4,.0.7.

I disabled the option to give negative ratings, removed all negative ratings through the Helpful Answers tool in the Admin CP.

Now all rated posts display this message:

%1$s members found this post helpful. Did you find this post helpful?

Any ideas?

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by El Orans

Running Helpful Answers 2.3.3 on vB 4,.0.7.

I disabled the option to give negative ratings, removed all negative ratings through the Helpful Answers tool in the Admin CP.

Now all rated posts display this message:


Any ideas?

Try reverting the templates. vBulletin has an issue where data gets "stuck" and needs to be forcefully updated.

[sticky]

Hey Ted, I was hoping I could convince you to add in the "reputation user spread" variable. I know I have asked before, but I would gladly pay you for this. I just really need this check as people continue to abuse the system to negatively rate the same person over and over. It is becoming a big issue on my board.

I just thought since it is your mod it would be best for you to get the money for it as you deserve it.

[Pro-eSports.com]

For some reason this mod ain't showing up in posts. I enabled it and did all the settings.
I disabled manual template placement so it does it automatically. So how can I fix the issue of the mod not appearing in posts?

vB 4.0.7

[sticky]

Originally Posted by Pro-eSports.com

For some reason this mod ain't showing up in posts. I enabled it and did all the settings.
I disabled manual template placement so it does it automatically. So how can I fix the issue of the mod not appearing in posts?

vB 4.0.7

Run the bulk forum enabler.

[Pro-eSports.com]

I forgot to enter the forum ID's that's why it didn't work.
Suggestions for future updates of this mod:

- an option to enable it in all forums (without entering all the ID's)
- an option to enable it in forums by entering the category ID's

Where exactly can I edit the text color of the mod? I want it to be a bit more transparent or something so it doesn't color clash with the post.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Pro-eSports.com

I forgot to enter the forum ID's that's why it didn't work.
Suggestions for future updates of this mod:

- an option to enable it in all forums (without entering all the ID's)
- an option to enable it in forums by entering the category ID's

Where exactly can I edit the text color of the mod? I want it to be a bit more transparent or something so it doesn't color clash with the post.

Thanks!

You can edit color with the template editor, just search for helpful answers