Add-On Releases - [AJAX] Helpful Answers - Allow users to rate individual posts

Helpful Answers has been used to record over 6 MILLION times on more than 2,000 forums. If you're not using HA your users are looking for it!

Every day your users contribute hundreds if not thousands of posts making it hard for new members and guests to separate out the best answers from those that are less helpful. The Helpful Answers System offers your members a quick way to rate individual posts as either helpful or not allowing future visitors to understand the value of each post.

Designed to be flexible, HA has over 30 configurable settings:

• Use image or text ratings AJAX or traditional links.
• Offer yes/no or scaled 1-10 point ranking.
• Turn off negative ratings for a positive only system.
• Decide which forums are open for helpful answer ratings.
• Audit the system and identify top users and potential abusers.
• Ban specific members from using the system.
• Customize the message shown after a post is rated.
• Show a page with the top helpful posts.
• Show rating stats on a user's profile.
• Hide posts that rate "too low"
• Template driven so you can customize it all for your forum.

For advanced users template conditionals and variables let you further extend the functionality to color highlight good or bad posts, include ratings in user?s profiles and much more.

Modification Installation [Must Read]:

Step 1: Upload the addon files found in the upload/ folder to your forum directory
Step 2: Install the plugin through your vB Administration area
Step 3: Configure settings & enable the mod in individual forums

You must configure settings & enable forums before voting will show up.
Anonymous Stats Tracking (optional):

By default this addon will pass basic rating data (positive or negative) to a 3rd party site for statistical purposes. Only the most basic data is captured (the vote and your site name) and no user information or specific forum details are logged, not even an IP address. You can disable this through the admin.

Mod Philosophy -- Drive Your Own Success:

All of my mods are inspired by my work in digital marketing and are designed to drive registrations, interaction or other engagement activities the core platform does not address.

Each is designed to fit a general need by providing a starting point but it's on you to decide how to make things work to their best possible outcome. Feel free to suggest what you'd like to see next but don't wait to have what everyone else has; figure out what your forum needs and customize away.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by klaus

Is there a variable I can use to display the total weight of a post after it got ranked up and down?

Example: 2 plus votes = Weight 2, 4 plus votes and 1 minus vote = weight 3, 6 minus votes weight = -6

To me it makes more sense to display the total weight of posts then how many plus and how many minus voted. Just give me the total as one number.

Thank you in advance and I love this product.

See https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....76&postcount=2 for a list of variables sent to the script. To add a new calculation edit the hook helpfulanswers_showthreadorpost

[klaus]

Originally Posted by Ted S

See https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....76&postcount=2 for a list of variables sent to the script. To add a new calculation edit the hook helpfulanswers_showthreadorpost

Thanks for the quick reply. Isn't the "Hide negative post count" looking at a certain rating value or does it truly count how many negative votes a post gets irregardless of the positives.

If it calculates the "average" or offset then that variable would be useful for my forum. If it truly just counts how many negatives then no offense but it kind of sucks.

I just installed this in a non production forum and haven't tested it enough to know how it works. What I am really looking for is a reddit type experience. Up/down votes. too many down votes post goes away, but can be up voted again by other users. true democracy.

There used to be product that did exactly that but it is discontinued/graveyard and was for vb3.x

Your product is the closest to what I am looking for.

[Ted S]

Looking at the source code [it's been a while] there's nothing fancy computed here, just the number of goodvotes, the number of totalvotes and then you can merge those to build a few different results.

My philosophy on mods is pretty simple -- give people a core feature that works for as many sites as possible and then let each one tweak it to meet their actual needs. One person will say a feature rocks, the next that it sucks, truth is that it "sucks" or "rocks" for you, but the mod isn't made for just just one site. Unfortunately "off the shelf" is as far as most go but let's be honest, if you're the same as the guy next door, that's not good so please, if you think this is close but not quite cutting it, dig into the code and make it do what you want.

By that I mean you've got a tool to vote on posts, now all you have to do is decide how you want to show the votes, hide negative posts, feature others, etc.

[klaus]

Yeah that is awesome and I am stocked for this product. Thank you.

I will mess with it and share what I make out of it with this thread so perhaps someone else can use it.

I like your philosophy.

[Ivan3443]

This is one of the best plugins out there !
I just installed it and it works great, but the voting Buttons are always at the top of posts. I already tried hours to fix this but I just dont have the skills for that. How can I change the postion, so it is bellow the edit buttons?

Thank you!

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Ivan3443

This is one of the best plugins out there !
I just installed it and it works great, but the voting Buttons are always at the top of posts. I already tried hours to fix this but I just dont have the skills for that. How can I change the postion, so it is bellow the edit buttons?

Thank you!

Enable the manual placement option and then add the right variable as explained in the install file.

[bposner]

How do you use this with VB experience, I'd like to add it to the awards and such. I added a category for HA and then added a award, and re calibrated but can't see to make anything show up. Thoughts?

Thanks!!

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by bposner

How do you use this with VB experience, I'd like to add it to the awards and such. I added a category for HA and then added a award, and re calibrated but can't see to make anything show up. Thoughts?

I'm very open to other mods interacting with and extending this functionality but don't support their code.

vB experience is released by a great developer... I'd suggest you reach out to him / his team for help with the integration.

[Edit: Should the mod author(s) see this and need other hook locations / data output to improve the interface, please drop a PM]

[dimitril]

I would like to display the good percentage.
The calculation would be goodrank / totalrank * 100.

How can I display this percentage?

Thanks in advance!

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by dimitril

I would like to display the good percentage.
The calculation would be goodrank / totalrank * 100.

How can I display this percentage?

Thanks in advance!

You will have to hack the plugin source code to edit the ranking output