New Posting Features - [DBTech] Advanced Post Thanks / Like v3 (vB5) [AJAX]

What it is: Advanced Thanks/Like mod is designed to cut down on spam and increase useful content in your forum by using a peer encouragement system - users thank/like each others posts, which can encourage the thanked person to post more great content.

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Priority support & Product Demos available at: http://www.dragonbyte-tech.com/forum.php

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Feature List: Lite

Postbit stats: Shows how many button clicks a person has given, received etc in the postbit. Admins can determine what statistics can show in the postbit to control sizes etc.

Admin Permissions: Control things such as who can click buttons, require button clicks, what shows in postbit, what options can run concurrently, per forum permisions etc.

Notifications: Receive alerts when a member clicked on one of the buttons for one of your posts.

Feature List: Pro

Infinite Buttons: Ability to create new buttons to press! No longer do you need to be limited by Thanks / Like / Dislike.

User Postbit Config: Lets users decide what postbit stats they want to see.

Additional permissions: Un-click a button. Control how many stats show on the statistics page, set permissions per subforum.

Buttons in First Post Only: This allows you to only make the first post thankable. If you forum is based around news, releases or anything similar this will allow your users to easily see the quality of the thread in question.

Button Click Anonymity: This feature will be extremely helpful to forums who like the idea of a "dislike" button, but don't like the drama it brings. Now you can set certain buttons to be anonymous - no one will see who clicked.

Missing Feature List: Lite

Require a Button Click: Allows you to hide the content of a post, or hie an attachment, until the person clicks a button on the post.

Statistics: Shows the top 5 people for; Giving / Receiving button clicks.

Import Thanks: Import script to import "thanks" from Abe's [AJAX] Post Thank You Hack on vBulletin.org. It will work with both vB3 and vB4 versions of this mod.

Missing Feature List: Pro

Auto Collapse Posts: Collapses a post so it doesnt show up by using a formulae for button clicks of your choosing.

Post Colour Thresholds: Ever wanted an easy way for members to tell if a post is helpful or trash? Colour thresholds let you change the colour of posts depending on how many clicks of a button they receive. Members can now see at a glance whether or not a post is helpful, interesting or pointless.


Complete Feature List
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Thanks / Like / Dislike Buttons

• Fully integrated into the vBulletin 5 postbit footer
• Same style / functionality as the vBulletin Reputation / "Like" controls
• On-demand list of people who clicked a certain button
• Fully AJAX driven

Button Control

• Edit name and action text
• Turn off "Given" stats
• Turn off "Received" stats
• Ability to turn off buttons per Category

Notifications

• Forum notification
• Notifications contain direct link to the post in question

Maintenance

• Cleanup, removes any thanks / likes / dislikes from posts that no longer exists
• Recalculate, recalculates how many thanks / likes / dislikes a user should have
• Rebuild Statistics, ensures the Statistics table is correctly populated and its values are correct.

Search

• Filter entries by username, button, start date, end date
• Change number of entries per page
• Change sort order

Repair Cache

• Ensures the button / page router caches are updated

Front-End

• Profile tabs integration

Pro

UserCP Settings

• Hide postbit items per-button
• Turn off notifications

Button Control

• Create unlimited buttons to click
• Minimum posts required to click a button
• Per-usergroup setting to become immune to clicks of a button
• Per-usergroup setting whether who clicked a button is displayed
• Per-usergroup setting to allow disabling clicks of a specific button for a post
• Per-usergroup setting to allow removing a click of a button
• Limit button clicks per day
• Per-forum ability to set each button to only display in the first post
• Per-forum toggle of what buttons are enabled
• Turn off "Given" and "Received stats on a per-button basis

Search

• Ability to delete entries found in the Search interface
• Change number of entries per page
• Change sort order

Notifications

• Email notification, respects the receiving user's email settings
• Can be disabled on a per-button basis

Missing Feature List
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• Front-End
  • Require button clicks to see content (whole post is hidden)
  • Require button clicks to see attachments
  • Each button can be set as "Default" for Attachments and Content. When posting via Quick Reply, the default button(s) will be set as Required
  • Top 5 Given / Received statistics for each button
  • Widget for recent Button Clicks
  • Hottest Threads / Posts page showing most clicked posts and threads

Pro

• Front-End
  • "Entry List" page; a browseable list of all button clicks
  • Hottest Threads / Posts has a date range filter
• AdminCP
  • Set more / less than 5 for the Given / Received statistics
  • Ability to auto-collapse posts using provided formula or input for your own using your custom buttons
  • Ability to create Post Colour Thresholds to highlight posts in different colours
  • (vB4) Choose what portions of the postbit should be coloured via the post colour thresholds.
  • Individual users now be excluded from using the mod

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This mod displays a copyright notification in the footer of all pages which includes:

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

[jkotlowski]

So... Does this not work with 5.1.7? I tried installing it and got an error partially through the installation.

It says

"That action could not be completed. Please try again, and if this occurs again please contact the system administrator and tell them how you got this message."

Right after this part.

"Altered Table: vb_node
Updating Version Number To: 3.0.4a5

Altered Table: vb_dbtech_thanks_button"

[jkotlowski]

Is this still being supported? Any chance you'll take suggestions on improvements to the system that can be ported to all the versions for VB3, 4, and 5?

If so...

1. There should be an option to allow the user to type a comment for a like or a dislike. Maybe it can appear on their profile page like a visitor message? Or maybe when you hover over the like or dislike number on the post it can display the names of those who liked/disliked it and hovering over the name can display their comment.

2. An option to limit the amount or likes/dislikes that be given per day. I just managed to get this implemented on VB 5.1.9 and within an hour somebody had went around and gave over 150 dislikes... A lot to the same users. It kind of ruins the value of the system when there's no option for limiting it.

3. Allow the options "given/recieved" to be view able on the profile under their information.(location and such) This would allow for the posbit to be uncluttered some and still allow members to view the information.

4. I don't know if "notifications" exist in VB3 and VB4 like they do in VB5. But in VB5, it's a bit annoying that the "notification" for likes/dislikes is done through a personal message (that you can't customize?) instead of an actual notification that you can dismiss easily. And the option to allow members to disables these notifications altogether would definitely be nice.

[JohnPBee]

I don't think this works with latest vbBulltin however.

[mdawg]

It does not work with vb 5.1.9 as far as I know, I installed but ended up removing it completely.

[hienntp]

Hello,
I Integrated post thank to my forum. But, button thanks, like, dislike not display.

[qoshka]

getting "access denied" in admincp mod submenu, vb 5.1.10, how to fix?

[DragonByte Tech]

This mod has not been tested with vB 5.1.10 yet, sorry


Fillip

[Bridgette]

5.2 definitely out then. Bummed. :erm:

[bigbear83]

This looks like a pretty nifty little mod and a missing feature in vB5 ... I just took the chance and installed this on 5.2.1 and lo and behold it seems to be working, no errors or nothing ... But as someone mentioned 2 posts up, the buttons are not showing up in the post view. However we can see everything from "Thanks, Likes, Dislikes Received, etc..." But I suppose what good is that if no one can see the actual like, dislike buttons.

And also as with all of your other mods @DragonByte Tech the admincp settings are out of whack and do not save ... we keep getting hit with a message that goes something like this -> "Invalid Page URL. If this is an error and the page should exist, please contact the system administrator and tell them how you got this message."

Anyway, I realize you are busy B with other projects, and this is the least of your concern or priority. But, a very nice mod idea nonetheless.

[shimei]

I'd like to see this work in 5.2.1 +. Definitely a mod I'd consider purchasing!