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 Ed Jobe

Is it possible to use this addon so that the best answer shows up at the top of the thread?

Yes but you would have to modify your showpost.php file to change the order to votes over date. Alternatively the built in feature will show a link to the top rated post.

[Sage Knight]

Originally Posted by Ted S

tab?

To identify and remove abuse a reporting system is included with this addon and can be found in your vBulletin ACP under the Helpful Answers tab


I'm pretty confused as to where is the "tab" as I don't see one.

[TheLastSuperman]

Originally Posted by Sage Knight

To identify and remove abuse a reporting system is included with this addon and can be found in your vBulletin ACP under the Helpful Answers tab


I'm pretty confused as to where is the "tab" as I don't see one.

I believe that would be AdminCP > Settings > Options > Helpful Answer Settings

[Ed Jobe]

Originally Posted by Ted S

Alternatively the built in feature will show a link to the top rated post.

Thanks, is there a screenshot of this feature? or a link to a site using this feature?

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Ed Jobe

Thanks, is there a screenshot of this feature? or a link to a site using this feature?

No screenshots.

Turn it on, see if you like it. If not, turn it off.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by TheLastSuperman

I believe that would be AdminCP > Settings > Options > Helpful Answer Settings

That will do it.

Although to be fair, that system is was not well maintained. Most of the dev has focused on the user-side tools.

[pyd]

Just installed this mod, and feeling a bit stupid right now.
I'm running 4.1.4 PL2. (Default template)
I have enabled the mod, enabled it in "Forum Manager".

But.. how do I use it in a post?
I can't see any new buttons or anything?

Edit: Never mind, I forgot that I couldn't "Like" my own post

[Blocksbox]

Fantastic mod. I have a question, though. Is it possible to close a thread if the opening post receives a certain number of thumbs down?

[FReeSTER]

man no matter what I do according to the instructions I still NOT able to see the rating bar

any ideas?

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by FReeSTER

man no matter what I do according to the instructions I still NOT able to see the rating bar

any ideas?

Have you enabled it in the forum you are viewing?

Have you modified your postbit / postbit_legacy template?

Have you selected a thread with posts you did not make yourself?