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.

[Expertu]

Can anyone help with my question, please ? Did anyone experience anything similar ?

[sticky]

Originally Posted by Vikingant

Thanks Sticky. Where would I find that? I cant find a setting in helpful answers or reputation settings.

You should see the helpful answers settings under admincp > settings > options and scroll down toward the bottom to "helpful answers settings."

Happy to help, I love this mod.

[Expertu]

About my previous question, I tried to debug the problem myself, and after trying various settings, I found the culprit:

Hide Negative Posts
If enabled, negative voted threads will be hidden.

If I enable this setting, I get the problem I explained on the previous page. If I disable it, all is ok. Moreover, when I activate it, it doesn't even hide posts with 6 negative votes, even though I have set it up, to hide posts with 5 negative votes.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Vikingant

This may have already been asked but to save going through 50 pages I will ask now.

I have noticed that users can only rate one post per thread. is there a setting to allow users to rate many posts within a thread?

Users can rate an unlimited number of posts per thread.

[Vikingant]

Thank you Sticky.
For further clarification to others with this issue (took me a moment to work it out) I needed to change the 'Enable Single Post Voting' to no.

[Vikingant]

Double post for some reason? deleted

[Expertu]

Ted, can you give any kind of tip, to help resolve my problem ?

[Pro-eSports.com]

Originally Posted by Ted S

Your code changed a line break... so that wont do much. Are you looking to change the font?

Ted, I still need help with the text color issue.

From last page: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...233296&page=50

I figured out that the text color of your mod is using the text color of posts. How can I make it that the mod text is seperated from post color?

[bposner]

<SOLVED>
this is the third time I've installed this product and still having problems. Installed as requested on 4.07. All installations went fine. This time, when you click on one of the thumbs, or whatever graphic is enabled the system chokes and spits back a 404 not found error in a separate window. Ted I can give you access via PM if you want to see. I've attached a screen shot of the page that comes up, which seems very strange. Again, this happens when a user clicks on one of the graphics I think some relative path is out of whack as it's displaying my host url. But everything else works in vbulletin, no errors, so assuming the relative paths VB is using are correct?

Edit. OK, I reinstalled and THAT error went away, now I'm getting: Warning: curl_setopt() [function.curl-setopt]: Invalid curl configuration option in [path]/helpfulanswers.php on line 483 when clicking on the graphic I don't think the program likes
me.

Edit: Well I searched in this thread and found suggestion "turn of the reporting" so that did it.

Thank you for your help
You are welcome
No problem
Anytime



Thanks

[alfanexus]

Would it be possible to use this on blogs aswell? So users could rate blogs with the same function?