About this hack:
One of the biggest problems on forums as you may know is 'posts boosting'. There are users who LOVE to say 'thanks' when ever they can. How can it hurt? Their post count goes up, they have nothing to loose.
There are also users who really like to express their thanks to post but don't like posting a post that looks like they're post boosting.
Then comes the moderators who have to delete people's thanks yous so a thread can look readable with out the thanks yous thrown around.
Finally comes the posters of these useful posts. They have no idea how many people really likes their posts if only some people say 'thanks'.
What this hack does is fix ALL these problems - except those users who like post boosting. This places a button called 'thanks.' When a user clicks on it, it places his username in a box right under the post saying that so-and-so says 'thanks' for the post. Every-one who clicks is placed in one box.
By giving your users the extra feature, you forum will look allot nice and organized. It is a granted liking by ALL the members of your forum.
[FIXED] Bug with AJAX if you had the date showing.
Version 4.5 (6/19/06):
[FIXED] Bug with AJAX if you had hacks that added things to your output.
Please post your comments or suggestions for this hack. I read ALL posts.
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Pictures:
Showing the 'thanks' button and stats in Postbit
Showing post after 'thanks' (user view)
Showing post after 'thanks' (admin view)
Showing post after 'thanks' with legacy posts (admin view)
Stats in members profile and link
Link in Search drop down menu
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It's a good idea, but another column in thread table isn't the best thing. Maybe you can make more than one version of this hack (and keep them in the same thread ofcourse).
And maybe you can also keep providing version 3.4 for people who don't like the AJAX feature? I'm using it and I like it a lot, but I can imagine that some people would like to use the original version without AJAX. There aren't any known bugs in it, so I think it would be a good idea to keep it avaiable for download
It's a good idea, but another column in thread table isn't the best thing. Maybe you can make more than one version of this hack (and keep them in the same thread ofcourse).
And maybe you can also keep providing version 3.4 for people who don't like the AJAX feature? I'm using it and I like it a lot, but I can imagine that some people would like to use the original version without AJAX. There aren't any known bugs in it, so I think it would be a good idea to keep it avaiable for download
Next release should have a feature to turn AJAX on and off.
What features does the thanks system have with ajax? and what is the refresh time? is this server intensive on a large forum? and maybe an option for us to set the refresh time to what we like.
What features does the thanks system have with ajax? and what is the refresh time? is this server intensive on a large forum? and maybe an option for us to set the refresh time to what we like.
Thanks
When a user clicks 'thanks', the page does NOT refresh but, it removes the button and adds the user to the thank list.
Hi Abe We have version 2.5 installed. How hard would it be to update to the current version? We're worried mostly about template changes...
If we're reading this right then after 2.7 there are no other template changes, correct? So we would go 2.5 to 2.6, and 2.6 to 2.7 and that should be it correct?