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).
Can i get the total given Thank You score on the forum index ??
I mean before or after the subject, so that you don't have to go inside a topic first to see how many thanks there are given to the poster ??
did you mean like my mod. i just coded small mod called "Display Thank Score By thread On Forum Index"
you can view demo. it seem working fine on my board
Question - is there a way to "weigh" the rep points given for a "thanks" in particular forums? For instance, on my message board, a "thanks" is worth 5 rep points given. But there are some forums that are off topic (like a "jokes" forum, etc.) I have some members that have a huge amount of rep points, but they post mainly in off topic areas. I know that one can shut off the "thanks" in selected forums, but I'd still like the "thanks" to be available there. For instance thanks in the "jokes" section are worth 1 rep point, "thanks" in the on-topic areas are worth 5.
Make sense?
Is this possible?
Actually I solved this problem by installing the "groan" mod. I have "thanks" turned off in the off-topic forums, and the groan mod turned on. I renamed the "groan" phrases in the xml file to "Way To Go", replaced the button with a custom one, and disabled the rep points for the mod. Now members can WTG each other without rep points going through the roof
Hello, i installed this hack on my vbulletin(3.7.1) but when i hit thanks button nothing happens.
The button dissappears until the next refresh an nothing is shown below the post.
Could you please help me?
EDIT
I installed the 7.4 version and everything works perfect now!
Did you uninstall the product rather than just overwrite it? If you uninstall it it will remove database tables. As far as I know anyway. You should not have uninstalled the thank you hack if that is what you did.
You could create a new database, install the back up copy of the forum. Then go to the back up page in your adminCP and untick/uncheck all tables except the thank you table. Do a back up of the thank you table. Then go back to your current operational forum and upload the thank you table sql table.
Do another backup of your operational forum just incase to be safe before installing the back up of the thank you table.
Can you tell me what you did by the way, like did you uninstall the thank you program because I was going to do a downgrade to 7.4 thank you hack and your post made me nervous lol.
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05-29-2008, 02:38 AM
