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.
New option: Remove User's Thanks Count When Deleting Post
New phrase: post_thanks_search_user_gave
FIX User reputation level now updates. (Thanks to liwo for this one.)
NEW Added option to view all posts a user has thanked.
FIX Fixed Special Action - Delete All of a Users Thanks
FIX Should have fixed some 'foreach()' errors.
Version 7.3 (03/15/08):
Updated file: functions_post_thanks.php
Updated template: post_thanks_memberinfo_block
Deleted template: post_thanks_memberinfo_css
New option: Choice to use Markup Usernames or not. (Thanks to Namaless)
New option: Ban User from Getting Thanks
New option: Max Thanks a User can Give Per Day
FIX Fixed repeating bug on vb 3.6.7 forums.
CHANGE Changed where the post thanks info shows on the Profile Page. Moved to same box as statistics. (This will require a template edit if you are running vb3.7 beta 2-4)
Added securty token check for all thanks added. This will prevent a user from giving out a link or somehow making an image that will get him a lot of thanks.
Should have fixed some 'foreach()' errors.
Fixed Delete All of a Users Thanks bug
vBulletin 3.7.x compatible only
Version 7.6 (06/02/08):
FIX: Fixed Security Check for vb 3.7.1
Updated files: functions_post_thanks.php
Version 7.7 (07/28/08):
FIX: Fixed problem with giving thanks using Blazer (palmOS browser).
Thanks for thanked me Abe, I have another one suggestion: You have writed "This can slow down a page load slightly.", is good choice to set 0 to default and not to 1
To fix the problem with "Find all thanked posts" in navbar search, set the Execution Order to "4" in Plugin Post Thank You Hack (Hook: global_setup_complete).
Hmm, one more thing I've noticed, this is a relatively easy system to abuse, you can include a hard link in your signature that when visited will bump the thanks count of a particular post. While not exactly disastrous, it means the system can be quite easily made redundant.
Having the link itself hide the functionality using javascript or using an md5 hash (a bit overkill) would be an ideal solution, as it stands I will likely have to remove the mod until I can implement these features myself. Still, thanks for the effort, it's got some neat features and if it weren't for my cynical userbase might have been useful.
Hmm, one more thing I've noticed, this is a relatively easy system to abuse, you can include a hard link in your signature that when visited will bump the thanks count of a particular post. While not exactly disastrous, it means the system can be quite easily made redundant.
Having the link itself hide the functionality using javascript or using an md5 hash (a bit overkill) would be an ideal solution, as it stands I will likely have to remove the mod until I can implement these features myself. Still, thanks for the effort, it's got some neat features and if it weren't for my cynical userbase might have been useful.
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03-16-2008, 06:01 PM
