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.

[brodband]

how to hide low rated threads on forumdisplay ?

just hide low rated threads without showing numbers or voting buttons

[sticky]

Ted, I upgraded to 2.3.1 but the hide posts feature isn't working correctly for me.

It changes the background on all my threads, I'm running 4.0.2.

Is there any way to make it simply collapse a post like the self-delete feature?

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by sticky

Ted, I upgraded to 2.3.1 but the hide posts feature isn't working correctly for me.

It changes the background on all my threads, I'm running 4.0.2.

Is there any way to make it simply collapse a post like the self-delete feature?

It's a different collapse approach, you can modify it if you would like to mimmick other functionality.

[jretzer]

How do I go about integrating the ratings with VB Experience? I enabled reputation add-on. Is there something else I have to do?

[bfdzio]

Is there a simple code to add in the 'thread controls' at the top the option to 'expand all' for collapsed posts?

[compuminus]

Originally Posted by Alex@Mk3OC

- Is there a way of displaying in the users postbit how many helpful posts they have?

Ted: Has this been added/fixed in the latest versions? Any way I can edit the mod to do this? If not, I second a vote for this. Everyone has been requesting that this be shown in their postbit profile...

[SaN-DeeP]

Great modification, installing now.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by compuminus

Ted: Has this been added/fixed in the latest versions? Any way I can edit the mod to do this? If not, I second a vote for this. Everyone has been requesting that this be shown in their postbit profile...

The data gets captured and added to the user profile as $user['hagoodrank'] and $user['hatotalrank']

[sticky]

Hey Ted, just wondering if there has been any progress on having helpful answers follow the reputation limits like "reputation user spread" ?

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by sticky

Hey Ted, just wondering if there has been any progress on having helpful answers follow the reputation limits like "reputation user spread" ?

Nope.