"digg" (aka Rate) individual posts

[Hicksatpd]

Hi everyone.

This is a feature I would absolutely LOVE to have on my forum.

I got the idea by browing the website digg.com.

The idea behind that site is members submit articles they think are worthy, and then if other members like it, they click to "digg it", and the site keeps track of how many times the article has been "dugg".

Well, for each article posted, users can leave comments. HERE IS WHERE I WANT TO TIE IN A FEATURE TO VB: Each comment posted can be given a green "thumbs up" or a red "thumbs down" by a user. If a comment has 0 ratings, a single "thumbs down" will give the comment a -1. If the comment reaches -10, the comment is then "hidden" (you see a bar acknowledging the post, but you have to click to read it instead of it being listed). This is what I would love to have made available for my vB forum.

The idea is, any given post can be given a "thumbs up" or "thumbs down". If a post recieves, say, 28 votes, and 18 are bad, while 10 are good, that post would be at "-10". This would mean the post would then be "hidden" to where it's just a strip saying something like:

"posted by JohnDoe X hours ago - [below viewing threshold, show comment ("show comment" would be clickable, when you click, it drops open the post to be read; I would gues that 'AJAX' would be useful for this)] - X diggs *insert clickable thumbsdown here* *insert clickable thumbsup here*"

Here is a good example of what I'm talking about:

http://digg.com/science/Drug_clears_...tter_of_hours_

Thoughts? Is it possible?

I have a community on my board where I am in charge, but it's not like a lot of boards where what the boss says goes, and that's that. It's a very... opinionated group, so my prefered style as head admin is to set up the rules so that there's a lot of self-moderation (I encourage use of the ignore list, for example), and this would be perfect for me.

Tough crowd. =/

[Hicksatpd]

Last time I ask. The least someone could do is tell me:

a) You're dumb, it's already possible, go to AdminCP and.......

or

b) It's too complicated.

or

c) It's been done, click here.

I appreciate any help.

[EricaJoy]

I think it would be possible although I don't know how to do it. I say that it would be possible since there is already a ratings system implemented for all threads.

I imagine this would require the ability to rate a thread outside of the thread itself and the number of options going from 5 (1-5 stars) to 2 (yes/no, thumbs up/down, etc).

[TygerTyger]

Ah, how handy. I was just here looking for this very mod so allow me to add my interest toward something like this. Well, this exactly actually.

As far as having a "Recommend Good Music" thread or a "Hot Girls" thread or a "Best Forum Quotes" thread...or any number of other threads where it would be handy to rate what the post is about instead of what the thread is about it would be very valuable.

[kenji4861]

I want this TOO! I might just hack up the php to do this..

[Adrian.]

Hi Hicksatpd,

I know what you mean.

Lets hope someone can help you.

In the mean time, you could use this VERY basic mod. It will allow you to easily submit posts to Digg/clesto and more.

I know it's not entirely what you want but... : /

See here - https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=123210

Adrian

[davidw]

Are you looking for something like what they do here?
http://rvb.roosterteeth.com/archive/episode.php?id=196

[kafi]

I am also looking for post rating solution .-)
Also current thread rating system is very poor...

[toolblast]

This is exactly what I was about to post to get done as well lol. Can any vb coder step up and code it for us?? Come on!!

[Sssin]

yea please!