Trader Ratings v1.2.0

Trader Ratings - A user feedback hack
Copyright ?2004 Jason Rabel, All Rights Reserved.
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Latest TR Verson: 1.2.0
vB Versions: 3.0.0 - 3.0.9
Author: Jason Rabel
Contact: PM me here, I'll respond.
Site: EXTREME Overclocking
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Updates:
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1.2.0 - September 4, 2004
- Added Trader Ratings Stats Page (finally!)
- Added PM notification when someone receives feedback
- Changed how positive feedback percentage score is calculated (bugfix)
- Ability to "close" the Trader Ratings pages (for maintainence or whatever) - TRATING_CLOSED
- Ability to set the URL field when submitting feedback to required or optional - TRATING_REQ_URL

1.1.0 - June 7, 2004
- Added time-based user edit/delete abilities, set via TRATING_UEDIT constant in traderratings.php file
- Userdate field is now an int field to be consistent with vBulletin
- Userrating field changed to tinyint to save space
- Fixed timeframes for showing historical ratings
- Made some various code consolidation
- Added missing ".TABLE_PREFIX." statement
- Templates.txt file shows code for postbit & MEMBERINFO, with conditional examples
- All 3 templates changed heavily
- Added some more phrases & fixed missing phrases

1.0.1 - June 2, 2004
- Fixed a "divide by zero" display error
- Postbit template fixed so guests do not have a trader rating

1.0.0 - June 1, 2004
- Initial Public Release

Description:
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Trader Ratings has evolved from my vB2 Buy/Sell/Trade User Rating System. This is a rating system for when members buy / sell / trade items from each other (presumably on a FS section of your forum). It is based on the honor system since there is no way to truly tell if they did engage in a transaction. (But I'm working on a way to fix that.) Trader Ratings came about because it was a pain to try and maintain a single thread listing good / bad traders and so far has worked out quite well.

Features:
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? Rate another member: Positive / Negative / Neutral
? Specify Buyer, Seller, or Trade
? Leave comments about the deal
? Records date when rating created
? Specify a URL to the deal
? Display ratings over time
? Filter based on Buyer/Seller/Trade/or feedback they left for others
? Users can edit/delete ratings left for others (time based limitation)
? Admins & Mods can edit/delete anyone's ratings (just incase)
? Stats page showing best & worst rated members, and recent ratings
? PM notification when a person is rated

Basic Info:
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I haven't written a FAQ or any real documentation yet, but the way the system works is very simple. The only part that might confuse someone is that the Feedback Score is based only on UNIQUE members. Also, there are simple checks in place to make sure they actually do select proper info and enter a comment. A user is not able to rate themself (obviously). Permissions for viewing / rating are similar to standard forum viewing / posting permissions. Also it checks to make sure users exist and all that good stuff.

Installation Info:
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This hack is very simply to implement requiring only:
? 1 new file
? 5 new templates / 2-3 template changes (navbar, posbit/postbit_legacy, MEMBERINFO, memberlist_resultsbit)
? 52 new phrases
? 1 new DB table / 1 table DB change & index

An install/upgrade PHP file is included to do all the template/phrase/DB stuff, so basically you run that, upload the file, and edit your postbit template. BAM!

Screen Shots / Demos:
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See Screenshots below, or you can view them on my forums: My Trader Rating Page

Standard Disclaimer:
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BACKUP YOUR DATABASE & FILES BEFORE IMPLEMENTING THIS HACK!!!

Forums Using This Hack:
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EXTREME Overclocking Forums
i-Club -- Forums
Accord Tuner
NSX Prime
Honda-Acura.net
Guns Network
PimpRig

(PM me your forum if you want me to add you to the list)

Donations:
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This hack will always be free, however your donations are kindly accepted and will help towards further development. If you donate, please leave me some info (either your forum site or username at vB.org) so that I can thank you.


Plans For Future Releases:
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? rebuttal / followup comments
? item description (possibly instead of thread url)
? button on thread that buyer/seller clicks to tie the transaction to two people

[the wiz]

Having a problem, I left feedback for someone and I selected POSITIVE and it set it as neutral. I left feedback again and selected positive again and it did the same thing. I checked and it did the same when he left me feedback.

http://www.dsites.net/vb/traderratings.php?u=1

Why is it doing this?

[oldfan]

no word on a top 10 list?

[lifesourcerec]

Why is it that some people can't see the hack. Log out and logging in work for some, but not others.

[the wiz]

Originally Posted by the wiz

Having a problem, I left feedback for someone and I selected POSITIVE and it set it as neutral. I left feedback again and selected positive again and it did the same thing. I checked and it did the same when he left me feedback.

http://www.dsites.net/vb/traderratings.php?u=1

Why is it doing this?

Can anyone help me?

[Mephisteus]

I think I have seen this somewhere before, ebay maybe Cool hack, have no use for it, but its cool

[eoc_Jason]

I'm working on the stats page right now actually. Version 1.2.0 should be released hopefully this weekend. Thus far there haven't been any changes to the current templates, everything is new additions.

Originally Posted by oldfan

no word on a top 10 list?

[oldfan]

Originally Posted by eoc_Jason

I'm working on the stats page right now actually. Version 1.2.0 should be released hopefully this weekend. Thus far there haven't been any changes to the current templates, everything is new additions.

sounds great, I can't wait to test it out :banana:

[integra99]

Originally Posted by eoc_Jason

I'm working on the stats page right now actually. Version 1.2.0 should be released hopefully this weekend. Thus far there haven't been any changes to the current templates, everything is new additions.

What kind of changes can we expect?

[eoc_Jason]

You can preview the stats page on my site here: http://forums.extremeoverclocking.co...erratings.php?

I'm still struggling to create some *useful* tables. Obviously the "Top Rated Members" was the main highlight. The "Feedback Left For Others" as you can see mirrors the "Top Rated Members" table pretty closely. The "Feedback Received/Given Past Month" also seem to mirror each other closely. I'm thinking of removing those two because they just aren't that useful.

I thought about having 3 tables, listing the top buyers/sellers/traders, but even that data is semi-iffy. There's the issue of choosing the numbers by how that user rates, or by how other rate that user.

I also thought about creating a "wall of shame", listing buyers with a negative feedback score. Generally though I've noticed that once a person hits -1/-2 they don't visit the forum any more... hehe.

I dunno, any ideas / suggestions for the stats page would be greatly appreciated. There's a fine line though in what can and can't be displayed, also the amount of processing required to display some of the data.

One thing you can't see but I have added is an automated PM notification. After user A rates user B a Private Message is sent automatically letting user B know they have been rated by user A. (The PM also looks like it came from user A, so they can rate / contact them easier).

I also modified the memberlist template, to display the trader rating score next to members. This only required a simple template edit, no files. But it makes the "search" feature on the stats page a little easier to use.

EDIT - Almost forgot, also made some code changes in the PHP file. Just a few cleanup things. I added a flag to where you can "close" the trader rating pages while you work on them, and only admins can view when closed.

[oldfan]

that works for me!!
I don't see it needing much more than what you have there.
Maybe adding worst rating would be a good idea, kinda like a bad trader list.
Besides that, it looks great!
Where can I get my copy