Show Thread Enhancements - [AJAX] Post Thank You Hack

Post Thank You Hack

STAFF EDIT:
Note - The mod author has been unreachable for some time, but the vbulletin.org community has stepped up to provide a number of individual fixes over the years. ForceHSS, Hippy, and Seven Skins have all combined many of these fixes into product files.

ALL CREDIT STILL GOES TO ABE1 And this is still 'his' mod. Please still mark the mod as installed if you use any version of it.

That said so you don't need to apply a dozen + small fixes yourself you should consider downloading one of the updated packages below:

Hippy has one in this post.

AND / OR

ForceHSS has one in this post.

AND/OR

Seven Skins has one in this post.


- Original File Specs: post_thanks_7_82.zip (26.4 KB, 24844 downloads) - Original file removed, replaced with patched files including search fix (some admins noticed hackers attempting to use outdated code to exploit search in attempt to gain administrator password or similar).
- There are five total patched versions available, some with and without the search fix - I've replaced the main file with the patched versions... please be sure to download and install the correct version, the main mod post contains links to additional information and patched files!
- If Abe1 returns he can request these packages be removed.


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 guaranteed liking by ALL the members of your forum.


Features:

• Uses vBulletin easy Product installer/updater/uninstaller
• Uses AJAX technology so your users don't have to refresh when they thank.
• Places an easy to use button next to the edit button
• Separate looks for postbit and postbit_legacy
• Places all Thanks into one small box
• Uses only ONE query every time you view a showthread page!
• Users can't thank twice
• Option to not allow users to thank their own post
• Guests don't see 'thanks' button
• Counts how many thanks a user gives
• Counts how many thanks a post gets
• Shows how many thanks a user gave in every post of his
• Shows how many thanks a user gave in profile
• Shows how many thanks a user got
• Shows how many posts or a user are thanked
• Shows info in profile
• Search for a users thanked posts
• Search for all thanked posts
• Administrator can remove all Thanks from a single post
• Users can remove their own Thanks
• Turn on and off hack totally
• Turn on and off hack for only some forums
• Option to turn off hack for all but the first post of a thread
• Option to turn off hack for all but the first post of a thread in specific forums
• Option to turn off hack view of date for specific or all forums
• Option to add to post count when someone clicks 'thanks'.
• Option to give a user who receives thanks reputation points.
• Ban Usergroups
• Ban Users
• Uses Phrases
• Cache Templates
• Guaranteed to be liked by ALL users on your forum!

Installation information on hack:

• Files edited: 0
• Templates edited: 0
• Files to upload: 8
• Time to install: 1 minute max

Updates:


Version 7.80 (12/30/09):

• Release of this hack for vBulletin version 4.0

Version 7.81 (01/02/10):

• Fixed some install and uninstall database errors.
• Made styling for postbit legacy a little better.
• Fixed the "separator" issue.
• Javascript file updated.

Version 7.82 (01/03/10):

• Fixed info alignment issues in the postbit for custom edited phrases.

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[ForceHSS]

Originally Posted by Popa Andrei

Why dont you post the version and post to BIG credits to abe1 and when (if) he returs and he doesent want you can remove it.I am shure no one woud mind that.

it has been already posted by me link in my sig

[Hippy]

Originally Posted by Popa Andrei

Why dont you post the version and post to BIG credits to abe1 and when (if) he returs and he doesent want you can remove it.I am shure no one woud mind that.

it will most likely will get lost in the thread anyway forceHSS has his version,
anyway most pm me and I email them the mod I applied all the fixes and file changes to. (with out my name pasted all over it like it's mine-unless that was something I did or fixed) as I have been..

[Popa Andrei]

i was thinking about makin a new thread (a new release)

[Hippy]

Originally Posted by Popa Andrei

i was thinking about makin a new thread (a new release)

would have to be your own code .. this is not reusable code... other wise Iwould of did it .

[Popa Andrei]

oooo.Aham,and Abe1 doesent responds on email or anything else?

[Videx]

He's probably passed on. But regardless, there are centuries of case law dealing with salvage of unclaimed property, so it still puzzles me why vb.org doesn't have a very clear definition of it, including a way to claim it and improve on it.

[Popa Andrei]

This is really stupid.Maibe he even died(not being rude,simple honest)that doesen mean the mode had to die with it.

Administrators please let the guys that can continue this plugin and want to suport it rereleas it and of course with the given credits to the orignal creator.
It will be a shame a mode like this to die.

[Videx]

Originally Posted by Mark.B

Not going to happen;

They can't and never will - it would be a breach of copyright.

Bzzzt. Wrong. Simply writing a modification to someone else's program does not immediately grant you rights to all similar code for eternity.

Prove me wrong if you can, but we need links to actual laws, not just chatter.

It's this type of nonsense that's curbing invention on a huge scale today. Companies suing each other for silly things like gestures. If you swipe from left to right it's patented by company X, but if you swipe up then down it's patented by company Y. Absurd.

[Popa Andrei]

Like i seed.This is a matter that the vbulletin staff should take kare of.

[BirdOPrey5]

As was said nothing can be done without his permission. I see his last activity here was June 9, 2010.

I see also he listed an AIM username in his profile. If I see him sign onto AIM at some point I will ask him if he would be interested in checking in here and maybe giving permission for the community or a specific developer to take over the mod.

Of course if I bring it up there's always the risk he wants to have the mod removed completely.