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[AJAX] Helpful Answers - Post Rating System (plus many sub-features)
Version: 2.0.6, by Ted S Ted S is offline
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Category: Add-On Releases - Version: 3.8.1 Rating:
Released: 02-02-2009 Last Update: 05-12-2011 Installs: 460
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Note: While this modification is updated for compatibility, I am only developing features for the 4.x version. I understand many sites continue to use 3.8 for a variety of reasons but dual developing takes time away from adding anything new. I encourage you to develop out your own change and share them back as no modification is ideal for every forum out of the box.

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 (AJAX) to rate individual posts as either helpful or not allowing future visitors to understand the benefits of each post.

Designed for maximum flexibility:


This addon is built to be flexible and offers several customization options including:
  • The ability to show a user's vote stats in posts
  • The ability to use image or text ratings.
  • The ability to offer yes/no or scaled 1-10 point ranking.
  • The ability to turn off negative ratings for a positive only system.
  • The ability to decide which forums are open for helpful answer ratings.
  • The ability to audit the system and identify top users and potential abusers.
  • The ability to ban specific members from using the system.
  • The ability to customize the AJAX message shown after a post is rated.
  • The ability to edit all text and messages through phrases.
  • The ability to show a page with the top helpful posts.
  • The ability to show rating stats on a user's profile.
  • Integration with the reputation system for ratings.
  • Template driven display that can easily be customized to 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.

Load & Scale:
This addon is designed to work with small to large sites and is currently being used by sites with more than 2 million posts. If you have questions about integrating with your big board please contact me.

Modification Installation:
This addon requires uploading multiple files, installing a vBulletin product and enabling the feature in any forums you wish. No template modifications are required. Please see the included install file for detailed instructions.

If you are not seeing the rating bar double check that you have enabled the feature in the forum you are in and insure the Manual Template override option is not enabled.

Rating Review & Deletion:
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. Through this panel you will be able to view a user's overall rating history and individual ratings and can remove either if necessary. Users can also be explicitly banned from the system.

Reputation System Integration:
Helpful Answers can be extended to directly tie into your reputation system giving users positive or negative points based on the ratings of their posts. There are numerous options on how to handle ratings that can be found in a separate Helpful Answers Reputation part of your vBulletin Settings page.

External Integration:
vB Plaza Modification - http://www.vbplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?p=6359
vB Experience - https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=199556

Anonymous Stats Tracking (optional):
vBulletin forums reach millions of consumers around the world yet little is known about their habits and opinions. This addon was released to the public out of requests but also to further the research of forum user's behaviors and actions through collecting the most basic data on thousands of sites.

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.

While you may disable this feature through the administrative options I ask that you consider leaving it in place to help this research effort and insure the continued support of the addon.

The tracking feature uses the php library cURL on a 5 second timeout. If cURL is not installed this option is automatically disabled.

Updates:
- 5/13/2011 - Release of 2.0.6 minor bug fix
- 08/31/2009 - Release of 2.0.0
- 08/07/2009 - Release of 1.9.5 stable

Other Versions:
This addon will work with 3.7 but to avoid issues with different code versions please see the 3.7 version thread here.

Before you download this modification please remember this is a free tool provided as a courtesy to you and support responses are subject to the availability of the author and other members. If you are looking for a professionally supported system this is not the solution for you.

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File Type: zip Helpful Answers 1.9.5.zip (36.5 KB, 398 views)
File Type: zip Helpful Answers 2.0.6.zip (39.4 KB, 617 views)

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File Type: gif admin-stats2.gif (11.3 KB, 0 views)
File Type: gif admin-stats3.gif (6.1 KB, 0 views)
File Type: gif topanswers.gif (19.6 KB, 0 views)
File Type: jpg settings.jpg (102.6 KB, 0 views)
File Type: gif rating-methods.gif (48.8 KB, 0 views)

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Old 02-05-2009, 07:06 AM
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To clarify on my earlier comment, this was a result of a bug in the script. If you download the latest version (1.3.3) and install it the table should be created. You may need to uninstall the addon before trying to reinstall.
Thanx!:up:

I have one more question if its not too much trouble. Where in posbit or postbit legacy I should add the

PHP Code:
$helpful_answers 
so text will appear before post # & check box? Although i tried multiple combinations, it keeps adding the text above post#, although in the same table.
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Old 02-05-2009, 06:03 PM
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What it is:
PHP Code:
        // yay, we're on. THANK YOU for keeping this feature enabled
    
        // build the url to call up for tracking
        
$tracksitename strip_tags($_SERVER['SERVER_NAME']);
        
$trackurl "http://www.moderninsider.com/helpfulratings.php?do=rate&site="$tracksitename ."&helpful="$helpful;
                
        
$curlHandle curl_init();
        
curl_setopt($curlHandleCURLOPT_URL$trackurl); 
        
curl_setopt($curlHandleCURLOPT_HEADER0); // this is annon. no headers should be sent
        
curl_setopt($curlHandleCURLOPT_TIMEOUT5); // wait 5 seconds for response    
        
curl_setopt($curlHandleCURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER1); // dont show the page
        
curl_setopt($curlHandleCURLOPT_FAILONERROR1); // dont show errors
        
curl_setopt($curlHandleCURLOPT_MUTE1); // dont show output        
        
$content curl_exec($curlHandle); // make the connection
        
curl_close($curlHandle); // close it all down 
This is enabled by default.
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Old 02-05-2009, 06:56 PM
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Originally Posted by mad@Max View Post
What it is:
PHP Code:
        // yay, we're on. THANK YOU for keeping this feature enabled
    
        // build the url to call up for tracking
        
$tracksitename strip_tags($_SERVER['SERVER_NAME']);
        
$trackurl "http://www.moderninsider.com/helpfulratings.php?do=rate&site="$tracksitename ."&helpful="$helpful;
                
        
$curlHandle curl_init();
        
curl_setopt($curlHandleCURLOPT_URL$trackurl); 
        
curl_setopt($curlHandleCURLOPT_HEADER0); // this is annon. no headers should be sent
        
curl_setopt($curlHandleCURLOPT_TIMEOUT5); // wait 5 seconds for response    
        
curl_setopt($curlHandleCURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER1); // dont show the page
        
curl_setopt($curlHandleCURLOPT_FAILONERROR1); // dont show errors
        
curl_setopt($curlHandleCURLOPT_MUTE1); // dont show output        
        
$content curl_exec($curlHandle); // make the connection
        
curl_close($curlHandle); // close it all down 
This is enabled by default.
if you enabled this option to yes that your site rated his site to helpfully

I don't know the main reason why and for what it is?
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How much impact does this mod have on server load/system performance?
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Old 02-05-2009, 08:25 PM
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Yes, but for what it's? I don't want send any info from my site! Yes, you can say "just disable it", but i don't think that this is somebody enjoy.
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^ read the full instruction/notes for this mod, it explains what it is all about.
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Yes, but for what it's? I don't want send any info from my site! Yes, you can say "just disable it", but i don't think that this is somebody enjoy.
Thanks for the question. As stated in the main post, the readme and the admin this is a tracking routine which is used to capture the number of votes and positive votes made.

This feature is entirely optional and sends no data about the post or the user, not even am ip address. The purpose of this is to get basic stars that show forums are positive places for consumers. All results will be freely published for the VJ community.

Again, this is entirely optional ans can be turned off with one click. I've done my best to bold this so there is no confusion on it.
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Old 02-05-2009, 11:15 PM
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Thanx!:up:

I have one more question if its not too much trouble. Where in posbit or postbit legacy I should add the

PHP Code:
$helpful_answers 
so text will appear before post # & check box? Although i tried multiple combinations, it keeps adding the text above post#, although in the same table.
To add this to an existing row you will need to nest it within an table placing the variable in one cell and the other items in another. This will stop the line from breaking.
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Old 02-06-2009, 04:49 AM
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To add this to an existing row you will need to nest it within an table placing the variable in one cell and the other items in another. This will stop the line from breaking.
Thank you! I will try that.
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How much impact does this mod have on server load/system performance?
Please see https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....9&postcount=14 which explains the queries used.
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