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 gjc

Is there a way to only allow certain users or usergroups to use this mod. I want only a couple to have access and all others to be able to see the results but not have voting options.

Not at this time, sorry.

[Ted S]

Hello Helpful Answers users,

I know many of you have been concerned about the lack of response and for that I apologize. In all honesty my time is no longer spent on this site and while I am around to help with issues and make updates, I can not promise to give the level of support many of you require to walk through each step of the mod or change. With this in mind I have asked other coders to step in and help with the future of HA until (and even after) I have the time to return to it later this year.

There will be more development of HA, more features and help. And yes, this mod still works just fine with the current version of vBulletin.

[sweetpotato]

Thank you very much for the update. I will try it right now, I am using vb 4.1.1

[Bundle]

Hello,

Hopefully someone can help me with something that's been driving me INSANE!

Basically I use this just as a "like" function (that also adds to reputation) and I eventually achieved the desired effect after a bit of template tinkering... it's just the "plus" button with the number of ratings to the right of it, looks the same whether you've rated the post or not, but is clickable when you can and not otherwise. Everything is working as I wanted EXCEPT for one tiny, endlessly irritating thing.

For the life of me, I can't figure out how to show the "plus" graphic on my own post, next to the rating. That is, when the member who makes the post looks at his own post, which has been rated, it's just the number. No graphic. For anyone else looking at his post, the graphic is there. I know WHY this is: it's because the code for displaying it is built into the "can rate" condition of the mod, and I've added a separate if condition in the template to display it when the post has been rated (helpfulanswerid), but I can't get it to display for "if this is my own post"... if you see what I mean.

I'm probably being really thick. Is there a standard vb conditional for "if this is my post"? That would sort it :/

[smirkley]

Ted,

I noticed the new upgrade and appreciate the support.

Quick question, I have customized the way it displays on my forum and really like the way this mod works. My forum is loving it.

But I was wondering if there is a way to just upload the file changes to overcome the curl issue fixed, without updatin the xml installer. I just want to preserve the changes on my forum for look and functionality that I have added.

tia

[mmackinnon]

Ted, Thanks!

I was wondering if anyone found a way to enable this for EVERY post in a thread as opposed to just one. Sometimes there are many great answers and a number of my users asked about it.

Mike

[smirkley]

I use this setup for every post.
I thought it was in the setup acp.

[mmackinnon]

Hey

I checked through it but didnt see where one could set that. As it stands now you can choose to rate ONE post within any thread but once you have rated that one post in the thread you no longer have the option to rate anymore in that thread. Is it not this way on your forum? Test it out, I only found out when a user asked me about it and then i tested it and found it to be true.

Originally Posted by smirkley

I use this setup for every post.
I thought it was in the setup acp.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by smirkley

Ted,

I noticed the new upgrade and appreciate the support.

Quick question, I have customized the way it displays on my forum and really like the way this mod works. My forum is loving it.

But I was wondering if there is a way to just upload the file changes to overcome the curl issue fixed, without updatin the xml installer. I just want to preserve the changes on my forum for look and functionality that I have added.

tia

xml wasn't changed. post the new .php file and you're set

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by mmackinnon

Ted, Thanks!

I was wondering if anyone found a way to enable this for EVERY post in a thread as opposed to just one. Sometimes there are many great answers and a number of my users asked about it.

Mike

By default this works on every post. You must have changed the options to single rating.