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).
Is there a way to check monthly thanked of each member? The reason I'd like to do it is because our forum has an Award that the member who is thanked the most will receive a present.
I've recently upgraded to 3.7.1 PL 1, PostThanks 7.6, vBadvanced CMPS v3.0.1, all albums 2.3, and Tag Cloud 1.0.
Since then, some of the thanked posts (High Fived on our board, due to a phrase change) are now showing up with a N/A rather than a link to the post that was given the thanks.
Code:
Thread Date Posted By Comment
N/A 06-15-2008 11:45 PM Tned High Fived Post
Thanks for this great hack, it's very useful for my forum.
But it still miss 3 stuffs very useful (and well , necessary for my use)
1) That the "thanks" button doesn't appears on the messages of the author of the thread (inside the thread)
2) We should have the possibility to set that Only the creator of the thread should be able to give a thanks via the button.
3) We should be able to restrict to "thanks" just one person in a specific thread and just one time. Once the author has given a "thanks" to one person on his thread, all the thanks buttons disapear of every posts of the threads, like it does when you give a thanks to a post...except that the "thanks" button disappears only on the thanked post
Do you think those functions could be integrated soon?
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06-16-2008, 08:50 AM
