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.

[vietfancy]

Originally Posted by Ted S

Disable the reporting feature and you'll be all set

Thank you it works great.

Here is one more thing. What do i do (what file should i edit) if i want to allow Guests to vote too?

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by vietfancy

Thank you it works great.

Here is one more thing. What do i do (what file should i edit) if i want to allow Guests to vote too?

You would have to pretty much modify everything as the mod uses User IDs to stop double voting and you would have to switch or add an IP address or some other means to check.

[Pvtiste]

Wow thos mod is awsome !
thanks for sharing

[sticky]

Originally Posted by Ted S

Should be pretty simple... Just need to look up the name of the variable, you can find it in the settings table or source code, once you have it I'll tell you where to swap things out (away from the vB source code right now)

I think I found it Ted, I may be wrong but I think this is it:

	// check if they have enough posts
	if($vbulletin->options['helpans_min'] AND $vbulletin->userinfo['posts'] < $vbulletin->options['helpans_minnum']){
		if($using_ajax){ 
			$helpful_answers_error = construct_phrase($vbphrase['helpfulanswer_toofew'],$vbulletin->options['helpans_minnum'],$vbulletin->userinfo['posts']);

			$templater = vB_Template::create('helpful_answers_error');
			$templater->render();
			$templater->register('helpful_answers_error', $helpful_answers_error);
			print_output($templater->render());
			exit;
		} else { eval(standard_error(fetch_error('helpfulanswer_toofew',$vbulletin->options['helpans_minnum'],$vbulletin->userinfo['posts'])));}
	}

[amorosso]

Awesome, it should be part of VB ..

[Wurstteppich]

Hi,

did anyone translate this to German language already and can provide me with his phrases?

[Wurstteppich]

One thing I noticed...when I click "Yes/No" to rate a users post, it takes ages (at least 5 seconds) till it changes to "Thanks for rating blabla". I use Google Chrome (didnt check with other browsers yet), does anyone have the same problem? I mean not the time to wait is the problem, but users don't recognize if the missed the spot and click another 2-3 times on it in the meantime.

[chriske]

Having style issues in 4.0.7.

The first screenshot is how a post normally looks, the second is how the post looks in forums where this mod is activated.

Anyone else experiencing this?

[MyCTaK]

I have the same problem as above (first and second posts are OK, but after them all are wider.
Another think i saw is style problem with background. I think probably it is because of the code below - there is no START, only END (see attached screenshot):

[barakuda]

installed and work ,thanks