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.

[Skyrider]

Is there anyway that users can undo their own voting to posts?

[SᴩiDᴇЯ]

This Mod doesn't work has plugin bug and when i asked for help by PM, I got this......Support for this mod is not given via PM, well then i will uninstall the Mod and not even bother with you.

Unstalled.

[TheLastSuperman]

Originally Posted by SᴩiDᴇЯ

This Mod doesn't work has plugin bug and when i asked for help by PM, I got this......Support for this mod is not given via PM, well then i will uninstall the Mod and not even bother with you.

Unstalled.

Not the best attitude to have in regards to a modification, many authors do not wish to be bothered with private messages and some don't mind it's that simple. This mod is very well supported by Ted publicly, whenever someone needs help and they post Ted is very helpful and does provide support.

Simply saying that, your having it installed or not installed is only affecting you .

[SᴩiDᴇЯ]

Originally Posted by TheLastSuperman

Simply saying that, your having it installed or not installed is only affecting you .

And thats why you jumped to put your 2 bits here?

Then you should read my post properly its that simple, Quote " Plugin has a bug in it" Unquote.

I have nothing against the coder, but when he said what he said, i said that i wont bother with him and uninstalled the mod................What's your problem.

[TheLastSuperman]

Originally Posted by SᴩiDᴇЯ

And thats why you jumped to put your 2 bits here?

Then you should read my post properly its that simple, Quote " Plugin has a bug in it" Unquote.

I have nothing against the coder, but when he said what he said, i said that i wont bother with him and uninstalled the mod................What's your problem.

Sure, it informs everyone else that sharing is caring and in a sense that you need to post more than "This mod is broken blah blah blah" so with that being said, what's the bug? If you posted anything other than a short rant we could possibly help, that's what was meant to be conveyed by my message, after all despite Ted being very supportive I'm also listed as a Supporter and don't mind being helpful if someone has posted something useful and if the person asking for help is cordial about it .

[radiofranky]

Hi,
I was wondering how to register {vb:raw post.totalrank} to use in the SHOWTHREAD template? I would like to show next to google +

https://tmpdmp.com/cc9a7a1a4a1d89ab/234b887664ea7db2

thanks

Originally Posted by Ted S

Moving this mod to below the signature line:

1. Enable Manual Template Placement
2. Find the code:

{vb:raw template_hook.postbit_signature_end}
</div>
</vb:if>

3. Add {vb:raw helpful_answers} below this line

Tips & Tricks Using Template Variables:

{vb:raw post.totalrank} - The total number of ratings
{vb:raw post.goodrank} - The number of good ratings
{vb:raw post.badrank} - The number of bad ratings
{vb:raw post.helpfulgood} - True if the post is positive overall (more good than bad ratings)
{vb:raw post.rate_helpfulanswer} - True if the user can rate the post (false if they are banned or have rated it).
{vb:raw post.helpfulanswerid} - True if the user has already rated the post.

Top Helpful Answers Page:

This is disabled by default. Once enabled you can find it at www.yoursite.com/forums/helpfulanswers.php

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by SᴩiDᴇЯ

This Mod doesn't work has plugin bug and when i asked for help by PM, I got this......Support for this mod is not given via PM, well then i will uninstall the Mod and not even bother with you.

Unstalled.

Like I said in my PM, I only provide support in the official thread. If that doesn't work for you, removing the mod is clearly the right decision.

Best of luck with your site.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by SᴩiDᴇЯ

Then you should read my post properly its that simple, Quote " Plugin has a bug in it" Unquote.

There are no known bugs with the mod displaying and with a few thousand active sites running it, if you have details on one that no one else has caught we're all eager to hear about it so it can be fixed!

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by radiofranky

Hi,
I was wondering how to register {vb:raw post.totalrank} to use in the SHOWTHREAD template? I would like to show next to google +

https://tmpdmp.com/cc9a7a1a4a1d89ab/234b887664ea7db2

thanks

{vb:raw post.totalrank} is a post related variable, so it won't work in SHOWTHREAD which only grabs the total thread variables.

What are you hoping to show? The total number of votes for a thread?

[SᴩiDᴇЯ]

Firstly i will publicly apologize to ted so i am sorry ted i got up set, but i do need help.
Secondly to the lastsuperman i will ask the questions in a correct and proper manner from now of on, i apologize for my bad manners.