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.

[bposner]

Hi, running your system on a couple of sites. very nice.. I want to change the text color for:
See the top rated post in this thread and trying to use basic BB code in the phrase doesn't seem to work, ["COLOR="Lime"]See the top rated post in this thread.[/COLOR"]

NOTE: I added the " at the beginning and ending of COLOR so the code would display in this post, it's not in the phrase I'm trying to change.

Suggestions?
Thanks!

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by bposner

Hi, running your system on a couple of sites. very nice.. I want to change the text color for:
See the top rated post in this thread and trying to use basic BB code in the phrase doesn't seem to work, ["COLOR="Lime"]See the top rated post in this thread.[/COLOR"]

NOTE: I added the " at the beginning and ending of COLOR so the code would display in this post, it's not in the phrase I'm trying to change.

Suggestions?
Thanks!

I don't believe BB code works in phrases. You'll need to use HTML and ideally css attributes.

[bposner]

Well then, that explains it

Thanks

[sportsfroma2]

just upgraded my site from 4.1.10 to 4.1.11, and it still works well.

thanks!

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by sportsfroma2

just upgraded my site from 4.1.10 to 4.1.11, and it still works well.

thanks!

Minor releases have almost no impact on mods which is why most are marked for 4.1.x rather than a specific version.

[sportsfroma2]

Originally Posted by Ted S

Minor releases have almost no impact on mods which is why most are marked for 4.1.x rather than a specific version.

I know, but I figured there are those like myself who are non-coders and they like reading through the latest posts on the threads before updating their vbulletin just to make sure everything is still working right (just because SOMETIMES, things go wrong- not saying often, not saying with your specific mod)...

I know I like it when other users share feedback -both negative and positive- on how the various vbulletin upgrades effect their installed mods... figured I'd return the favor a bit.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by sportsfroma2

I know, but I figured there are those like myself who are non-coders and they like reading through the latest posts on the threads before updating their vbulletin just to make sure everything is still working right (just because SOMETIMES, things go wrong- not saying often, not saying with your specific mod)...

I know I like it when other users share feedback -both negative and positive- on how the various vbulletin upgrades effect their installed mods... figured I'd return the favor a bit.

Don't get me wrong, we appreciate it when people confirm a mod works in an upgrade. I just like to take the time and follow up to other users so they understand that rather than asking if a mod works for .0x minor change, they give it a shot -- 99% of the time it will and asking just slows down their own site [not to mention that most coders will answer without actually testing first on the assumption basis].

[initiald]

It's not working on vBulletin 4.1.11? The thumbup/thumbdown are not showing on the post. I have set it to display on the forum. Every instrument is followed on the install file. Why? please help..

This is my setting..

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/715/part1n.png/
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/41/part2z.png/
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/690/part3vj.png/

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by initiald

It's not working on vBulletin 4.1.11? The thumbup/thumbdown are not showing on the post. Why? please help..

I can't do much with "it's not working"... You'll need to provide some actual details to look into...

Have you enabled the mod in the forum you are viewing?

Do the other options work?

Does anything show up in the voting area?

[iDHKHCM]

Originally Posted by Ted S

I can't do much with "it's not working"... You'll need to provide some actual details to look into...

Have you enabled the mod in the forum you are viewing?

Do the other options work?

Does anything show up in the voting area?

same thing with me absolutely nothing shows up, everything was enabled forums too