Miscellaneous Hacks - [DBTech] vBNominate v1 (vB4) [AJAX]

vBNominate is an advanced nomination system. Several different types of nominations are available and it is fully automated to keep your users engaged and interested in your communities activity while keeping maintenance down.

Uses
As admin you will be able to create several different types of nominations. The nominations can either end with the top nominated items winning or a separate poll will automatically be created with the top items.

Once the poll is completed the nomination is updated automatically with the results. No manual intervention is needed on your part! You can specify the type of nomination to be run or you can let it run on several different types of items like threads, polls, blogs, etc.

The nominations system will make it easy for users to have competitions for the best post, thread and more while browsing the forum. No need to go to a special page to vote, all voting can be done for any post from any thread via AJAX.

Instructions
Here are some basics on how to get the nominations started.
1) Make sure you modify the usergroups that will be allowed to nominate.
ACP->Usergroups->UserGroup Manager
2) Create a rotating nomination
ACP->DBTech - vBNominate-> Create Rotating
An example, if you want a weekly Thread nomination, set Type to Thread, Cycle to Weekly, End Date way far in the future, like Dec 31 2058. After you submit new Nomination go to step 3.
3) Edit new Inactive Nomination
ACP->DBTech - vBNominate-> Current Nominations
You should now have an inactive nomination. Edit it if you need to make any changes then set it to active.

You should now have a Nomination link in your postbit. At the end of the week it will automatically end and start a new one on the day you specified.

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Complete Feature List

Lite

• Forumhome block to display latest completed nominations and current running nominations
• Ajax Nominations for seamless use
• Nomination Types
  • Thread
  • Post
  • Signature
  • Blog
  • Blog Comment
  • Avatar
  • All Previous
• Delete individual Nomination votes
• View/Edit/Delete Nominations
• Nomination Administration
  • Create Rotating Nominations (Automatically created on schedule)
    • Daily
    • Weekly
    • Monthly
    • Auto Score - Most nominated will win
    • Poll Results - Most nominated will be added to a timed poll
    • Start Date
    • End Date
    • Number of Finalists
    • Number of Winners
    • Winning postbit image
    • Nomination Type
• Per Usergroup
  • Can Nominate

Pro

• CMS Widget scrolls display of latest completed nominations
• Forum sidebar block scrolls display of latest completed nominations
• Ability to display winner postbit images
• Create One Time Nomination
  • Auto Score - Most nominated will win
  • Poll Results - Most nominated will be added to a timed poll
  • Start Date
  • End Date
  • Number of Finalists
  • Number of Winners
  • Winning postbit image
  • Nomination Type

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This mod displays a copyright notification in the footer of pages generated by this mod which includes:

• 1 Link to DragonByte Technologies homepage
• 1 Link to Product Description page of this modification

[qpurser]

We all should consider there are some real excellent coders here who provide us with excellent FREE Mod's to make our forums better and more interesting for our users. One of them is DBT for sure.
They deserve a link in the footer to show their hard work but yes I agree it can get a lot overwhelming when using several different mod's.
Maybe one thing coders could consider when they offer several different mod's is to combine the links in one line instead of links for each product.
Example: product1, product2, product3 presented by company/coderX.

[sticky]

Is it possible to give bonus rep points for people that win nominations automatically?

[sticky]

Also, to encourage use of this system, would be nice to give rep to people that nominate things.

[hsoen]

It would be good if the system restricts the user to nominate once for the same thread/post while able to nominate many other threads/posts in a contest. Just like the vBulletin MOTM nomination system.

[hsoen]

Originally Posted by sticky

Also, to encourage use of this system, would be nice to give rep to people that nominate things.

Better to give reputation points to people whose nomination is the winner, else people will anyhow nominate so as to gain more reputation points.

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by sticky

Is it possible to give bonus rep points for people that win nominations automatically?

Originally Posted by sticky

Also, to encourage use of this system, would be nice to give rep to people that nominate things.

Originally Posted by hsoen

It would be good if the system restricts the user to nominate once for the same thread/post while able to nominate many other threads/posts in a contest. Just like the vBulletin MOTM nomination system.

We can look at putting these options in with a future release. Unfortunately it does not do them now.

Dylan

[Davey-UK]

This mod is great for what we want, BUT, how hard would it be to make a fortnightly (two weeks) option to give thread votes more of a chance?
14 days would be a happy medium between the monthly and weekly options.
Thankyou

[Fongool]

I'm hoping this will work to do what I want it to do...I have a forum with about 40 sub-forums that belong to different Vendors...I want to be able to have members nominate their favorite Vendor...Here is a screenshot of what I am talking about,,,
You can also view the live forum here

Will each of these Vendors have the "nominate" text on the thread your looking at?
Also, does this Mod have the ability to let a user from a specific IP vote only once on a specific thread?...for example, the same user can't vote on the same thread multiple times...

Thanks
F

[grey_goose]

Seems like a cool idea, but I can't get the links to show up. I've got heavily modified templates, and tried to deploy them manually with {vb:raw vbnominate.user}, but... nothing.

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by Davey-UK

This mod is great for what we want, BUT, how hard would it be to make a fortnightly (two weeks) option to give thread votes more of a chance?
14 days would be a happy medium between the monthly and weekly options.
Thankyou

I can look into it next time we work on a feature release.

Dylan