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.

[netzwart]

I need this information too! Thanks ...

Originally Posted by The Rocketeer

edit: would also be nice if you introduced some new and more professional looking thumbs icons

You may exchange the corresponding files (e. g. ha_thumbsup.gif) in

forum/images/buttons

in order to have more professional looking thumbs. There are a lot of professional thumb-files in the www ....

Netzwart

[The Rocketeer]

Originally Posted by netzwart

I need this information too! Thanks ...



You may exchange the corresponding files (e. g. ha_thumbsup.gif) in

forum/images/buttons

in order to have more professional looking thumbs. There are a lot of professional thumb-files in the www ....

Netzwart

well I have searched google, nothing much pro...

can you post a few that you think are pro? thanks

[netzwart]

Originally Posted by The Rocketeer

can you post a few that you think are pro? thanks

Sorry, but I don?t know what you think how a professional thumb should look like . Just use the picture search of google. There must be something for you ...

Netzwart

[Silviu]

Hello Ted,

Question: is there a way to hide the "helpfulanswer_x_out_of_y" variable if the user hasn't rated a reply yet?

Right now, the "x out of y members found this post useful" is displayed right next to the thumbs up / down buttons, which we don't really want, because it can bias the opinion of the would-be voter (oh, look, this reply has only 2 positive votes out of 5, i won't bother to read it, just hit minus and be done with it)

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Silviu

Hello Ted,

Question: is there a way to hide the "helpfulanswer_x_out_of_y" variable if the user hasn't rated a reply yet?

Right now, the "x out of y members found this post useful" is displayed right next to the thumbs up / down buttons, which we don't really want, because it can bias the opinion of the would-be voter (oh, look, this reply has only 2 positive votes out of 5, i won't bother to read it, just hit minus and be done with it)

Sure...

Just modify the conditional...

<if condition="$post['totalrank']">
      <phrase 1="$post[goodrank]" 2="$post[totalrank]" 3="$post[badrank]">$vbphrase[helpfulanswer_x_out_of_y]</phrase>
     </if>

To something like

<if condition="$post['totalrank'] AND $post['helpfulanswerid']">
  <phrase 1="$post[goodrank]" 2="$post[totalrank]" 3="$post[badrank]">$vbphrase[helpfulanswer_x_out_of_y]</phrase>
 </if>

[JasonP38]

I installed this mod on my site today and every thing looks good but when I tried to use it I got this message.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by JasonP38

I installed this mod on my site today and every thing looks good but when I tried to use it I got this message.

The helpfulanswers.php script isn't found indicating you either did not upload it to the right folder or your settings do not match your forum directories properly. You can manually adjust the urls by editing the template if you have a custom installation.

[JasonP38]

thanks Ted, I have it working now.

[The Rocketeer]

Hello Ted, Wondering If you could please help us out with this question https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=872

we need some space between this and the forum border

[Cybertims]

Originally Posted by Ted S

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

Here's a problem I've got.

When someone makes a helpful thread all is fine, if a post inside that thread is marked as unhelpful the entire thread is then hidden, is is possible to only hide the posts that are marked as unhelpful?

Cheers