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 Trevor Matthews

It has been sorted, I had to modify the template.
Details are Here, should be sorted in later releases.

Removing template hooks will definitely impact mods (and not just this one)... Glad they sorted it out and are returning those as options.

[wilford brimley]

i dont know alot about editing vbulletin, ive only used phpbb/

how cna i remove the "did you find this helpful" phrase.

and two, how can i move the plus/minus to beside the post number.

this is a good mod but its ugly so i dont think ill use it.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by wilford brimley

i dont know alot about editing vbulletin, ive only used phpbb/

how cna i remove the "did you find this helpful" phrase.

and two, how can i move the plus/minus to beside the post number.

this is a good mod but its ugly so i dont think ill use it.

As you don't like the mod don't use it.

[wilford brimley]

Originally Posted by Ted S

As you don't like the mod don't use it.

i dont like the way it looks because when it is in the thread text box it jumbles up close to the post when the skin is fluid and compressed. i was asking if it can be made to look good for me up beside the number of the post on thread (logical placement)

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by wilford brimley

i dont like the way it looks because when it is in the thread text box it jumbles up close to the post when the skin is fluid and compressed. i was asking if it can be made to look good for me up beside the number of the post on thread (logical placement)

With templates you can move elements wherever you want, however you want. Mods are merely a starting point to serve the general community.

[blacklynx]

when ranked , appears a error:

<div id="helpfulanswers_box_" style="text-align:right;">
<br /><hr size="1" style="color:$stylevar[tborder_bgcolor]" />



<i> <font size="2" color="green">+ 3 </font><font size="1" color="green">Galletas </i></font>
<br><br>








<strong><font size="1" color="green">thank you!</font></strong>

</div>


What´s going on?

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by blacklynx

What?s going on?

Have you modified any of the templates from the addon or your post/ post legacy style?

[blacklynx]

nope. Im using a vbulleting generated style.

[michaelbang]

Resolved (disabled negative voting): When members vote, and the "1 out of 1 members..." come up, the icons (the red/green hands) disappear. What to do?

Resolved (edited helpful-answers template): And when giving thumbs up or down in post (not the first one) the text "1 out of 1 members..." is RIGHT above the posts text. Can I do so that the post text is one line lower? It seems a bit cramped up.

I use v. 4.1.11.

Thanks.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by michaelbang

Resolved (disabled negative voting): When members vote, and the "1 out of 1 members..." come up, the icons (the red/green hands) disappear. What to do?

Resolved (edited helpful-answers template): And when giving thumbs up or down in post (not the first one) the text "1 out of 1 members..." is RIGHT above the posts text. Can I do so that the post text is one line lower? It seems a bit cramped up.

I use v. 4.1.11.

Thanks.

All good or is there anything still outstanding you want to do?