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.

[Naijasite]

I have install and enable the Mode but can not see the icon or rate mode on post.

Please what could be the problem?

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by felixkomo

I have install and enable the Mode but can not see the icon or rate mode on post.

Please what could be the problem?

Have you enabled it in the forum you are viewing? Have you changed other settings which would impact who sees the voting options such as usergroup restrictions?

[socialteenz]

First of all thank you for this mod.

But i am facing a strange problem, when this mod is enabled in the forumdisplay page, threads are not sorted properly by the last post date.

When disabled everything works fine.

Any idea?

[Ted S]

Voting features work with vB 4.2. Should you find anything broken please report it back to this thread.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by socialteenz

First of all thank you for this mod.

But i am facing a strange problem, when this mod is enabled in the forumdisplay page, threads are not sorted properly by the last post date.

When disabled everything works fine.

Any idea?

What, if any, settings have you changed? How are threads ranked by default?

[socialteenz]

Originally Posted by Ted S

What, if any, settings have you changed? How are threads ranked by default?

By default they are ranked by descending order. I tried disabling your mod, everything looked fine. If you want, i can pm you the screen shots.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by socialteenz

By default they are ranked by descending order. I tried disabling your mod, everything looked fine. If you want, i can pm you the screen shots.

And your settings for the mod....?

[Eole]

Hi,

When someone vote on a post, the thread appears as many time as there are posts that have been voted (+ or -). Who to avoid this duplicates ?

Thanks.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Eole

Hi,

When someone vote on a post, the thread appears as many time as there are posts that have been voted (+ or -). Who to avoid this duplicates ?

Thanks.

That's certainly not something that should be happening... It sounds like something is going wrong with your mySQL records...

Take a look at the table helpfulpost and a post that shows up multiple times. There should be just one entry per postid.

I.E. SELECT COUNT(*) FROM helpfulpost WHERE postid = '12345';

[bfdzio]

Originally Posted by bfdzio

Anyone interested in building a file like the helpfulanswers.php but that would display 'most helpful' posts from the past 24 hours?

Originally Posted by bfdzio

Got it working, now I just need to make it show a preview of the post (or the whole post).

Probably more work involved in that though.

Ted S...do you have any idea on how I might do this (the second quote)? I got it working thanks to your help but just saw this post was bumped and recalled I never did figure out how to make it preview the posts.

I can probably handle the design part of it but is that a specific code I am looking for or anything?