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 Solarflex

Not edited.
What do I need to do?

Edit: Nvm. I found out. Problem fixed.

Great

[daxitude]

Hi Ted,

Installed with 4.1.0 and so far seems to be working very well! Thank you for this wonderful modification. I'm attaching a few screen shots to illustrate.

FYI on the initial install we encountered an issue some others have had. On click to rate and refresh of the page the rating display reads: "%1$s members found this post helpful." We found it resolved when choosing a non-rollover/javascript display option.

We would like to include an icon on the FORUMDISPLAY view in the icon info area that indicates posts have been rated as helpful in any given thread. Is there a variable that would work at this level (kind of a noob with php)?

Also, we like the idea of a two-tier positive rating, e.g. "helpful answer" and "correct answer." Has this ever been considered, and any preliminary thoughts on how best to go about it?

Finally, a +1 for others' suggestions to make the voting not anonymous in the showthread display.

Again, thank you Ted!

[CvP]

just wanna mention that it works fine on 4.1.

Ted, is the "display usernames who rated" and "removing rating" still planned?

[smirkley]

Really like this mod.

Quick question, how can I add a 1px box around the helpful answers area within posts?

I tried a couple of things but just cant get anything to work.

Using postbit legacy.

Any help appreciated.

Thanks

[chriske]

Uninstalled, breaks my forum style and make the attachments messed up...
tried to reinstall on 4.1 but nothing changed..

To bad, I like this mod.. but can't figure out what's wrong

[lycheepassion]

I get this error in PL2 vb 4 Warning: curl_setopt() [function.curl-setopt]: Invalid curl configuration option in [path]/helpfulanswers.php on line 483

[IndigoSociety]

So I added this but I don't see it anywhere on the forum? I have it enabled.

4.1 PL2

[IndigoSociety]

Fixed with bulk tool. Didn't realize I had to do that. Probably should add that in readme.

Great mod!

[CvP]

Hi Ted.
Is the next version due anytime soon? will it include remove rating by users (usually because of misclick)?

[Wynex]

Since I installed this addon many of my users are getting an error message saying that they have to wait 30 seconds to make the next post. If they do and click again it's a double post. Anyone else having that problem?