About this hack:
One of the biggest problems on forums as you may know is 'posts boosting'. There are users who LOVE to say 'thanks' when ever they can. How can it hurt? Their post count goes up, they have nothing to loose.
There are also users who really like to express their thanks to post but don't like posting a post that looks like they're post boosting.
Then comes the moderators who have to delete people's thanks yous so a thread can look readable with out the thanks yous thrown around.
Finally comes the posters of these useful posts. They have no idea how many people really likes their posts if only some people say 'thanks'.
What this hack does is fix ALL these problems - except those users who like post boosting. This places a button called 'thanks.' When a user clicks on it, it places his username in a box right under the post saying that so-and-so says 'thanks' for the post. Every-one who clicks is placed in one box.
By giving your users the extra feature, you forum will look allot nice and organized. It is a guaranteed liking by ALL the members of your forum.
New option: Remove User's Thanks Count When Deleting Post
New phrase: post_thanks_search_user_gave
FIX User reputation level now updates. (Thanks to liwo for this one.)
NEW Added option to view all posts a user has thanked.
FIX Fixed Special Action - Delete All of a Users Thanks
FIX Should have fixed some 'foreach()' errors.
Version 7.3 (03/15/08):
Updated file: functions_post_thanks.php
Updated template: post_thanks_memberinfo_block
Deleted template: post_thanks_memberinfo_css
New option: Choice to use Markup Usernames or not. (Thanks to Namaless)
New option: Ban User from Getting Thanks
New option: Max Thanks a User can Give Per Day
FIX Fixed repeating bug on vb 3.6.7 forums.
CHANGE Changed where the post thanks info shows on the Profile Page. Moved to same box as statistics. (This will require a template edit if you are running vb3.7 beta 2-4)
Version 7.4 (03/21/08):
FIX: Fixed Profile Stats for vb3.7.0 RC1 users.
Please post your comments or suggestions for this hack. I read ALL posts.
MAKE SURE YOU CLICK INSTALL! You will get an email when a new version is released.
Pictures:
Showing the 'thanks' button and stats in Postbit
Showing post after 'thanks' (user view)
Showing post after 'thanks' with legacy posts (admin view)
So far, my only concern is that doing the search for messages with "thanks" takes a long time on my forum: around 45 seconds. Our forum has around 45,000 posts on it. Is there any way that the search time can be made more reasonable?
i cab't reproceed this!
posts on the board: 68.815
time to generate the search: less than one second!
If i install the hide hack.. is there any way for me to have it so that when they click thanks then it shows the hidden content?
This would be a nice idea. Coz Hide hack has its thanks system. I would love it when u thank it either in hide+thanks hack or the thanks button to reflect it to both so the hide content can be shown and the thanks system is updated as well
I can not UNINSTALL this hack -- after uninstalling I get the following error:
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Database error in vBulletin 3.6.0:
Invalid SQL:
SELECT userid, usergroupid, IF(displaygroupid=0, usergroupid, displaygroupid) AS displaygroupid, username, posts, post_thanks_thanked_times
FROM vb_user
ORDER BY post_thanks_thanked_times DESC LIMIT 0, 10;
MySQL Error : Unknown column 'post_thanks_thanked_times' in 'field list'
Error Number : 1054
Date : Tuesday, September 5th 2006 @ 07:20:26 PM
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If I reinstall the hack, my site is fine. As soon as I try to uninstall it again, I get the same error. Please help, this is very frustrating to say the least.
I could just disable the hack, but that's not an option.
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08-31-2006, 08:51 PM
