Add-On Releases - [AJAX] Helpful Answers - Allow users to rate individual posts

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 (AJAX) to rate individual posts as either helpful or not allowing future visitors to understand the benefits of each post.

Designed for maximum flexibility:



This addon is built to be flexible and offers several customization options including:

• The ability to use image or text ratings.
• The ability to offer yes/no or scaled 1-10 point ranking.
• The ability to turn off negative ratings for a positive only system.
• The ability to decide which forums are open for helpful answer ratings.
• The ability to audit the system and identify top users and potential abusers.
• The ability to ban specific members from using the system.
• The ability to customize the AJAX message shown after a post is rated.
• The ability to edit all text and messages through phrases.
• The ability to show a page with the top helpful posts.
• The ability to show rating stats on a user's profile.
• Integration with the reputation system for ratings.
• Template driven display that can easily be customized to 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:
This addon requires uploading multiple files, installing a vBulletin product and enabling the feature in any forums you wish. No template modifications are required. Please see the included install file for detailed instructions.

If you are not seeing the rating bar double check that you have enabled the feature in the forum you are in and insure the Manual Template override option is not enabled.

Rating Review & Deletion:
To identify and remove abuse a reporting system is included with this addon and can be found in your vBulletin ACP under the Helpful Answers tab. Through this panel you will be able to view a user's overall rating history and individual ratings and can remove either if necessary. Users can also be explicitly banned from the system.

Reputation System Integration:
Helpful Answers can be extended to directly tie into your reputation system giving users positive or negative points based on the ratings of their posts. There are numerous options on how to handle ratings that can be found in a separate Helpful Answers Reputation part of your vBulletin Settings page.

Anonymous Stats Tracking (optional):
vBulletin forums reach millions of consumers around the world yet little is known about their habits and opinions. This addon was released to the public out of requests but also to further the research of forum user's behaviors and actions through collecting the most basic data on thousands of sites.

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.

While you may disable this feature through the administrative options I ask that you consider leaving it in place to help this research effort and insure the continued support of the addon.

The tracking feature uses the php library cURL on a 5 second timeout. If cURL is not installed this option is automatically disabled.

History of this addon:

This addon was originally developed for private use in 2006 for a site of mine but after getting several past clients requested requests and messages I decided to package it up for public release.

[pjkcards]

When I try to import the product into 3.6.7, I get an error saying it isn't compatible. Is there a way to bypass this so I can see if I can get it to work? Cheers.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by pjkcards

When I try to import the product into 3.6.7, I get an error saying it isn't compatible. Is there a way to bypass this so I can see if I can get it to work? Cheers.

Edit the XML file... near the top is the min version.

[pjkcards]

Originally Posted by Ted S

Edit the XML file... near the top is the min version.

Great, thanks.

I installed it, and it appears to work. However, when I rate 1 post in a thread, it refreshed the page, and returns a "1 of 1 members have found this post helpful" under ALL of the posts in that thread. I want it to rate individual posts. Know of a way around this?

Cheers!

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by pjkcards

Great, thanks.

I installed it, and it appears to work. However, when I rate 1 post in a thread, it refreshed the page, and returns a "1 of 1 members have found this post helpful" under ALL of the posts in that thread. I want it to rate individual posts. Know of a way around this?

Cheers!

This mod is for individual posts. Sounds like something is different in 3.6 that's causing the same code to get rendered. You'd have to look at the code strucutre -- I don't offer support for that old of a version although I'm pretty sure others are running this mod on 3.6.

[pjkcards]

Thanks for the info.

If anyone reads this and has discovered the problem, please send me a PM. Thanks in advance.
Cheers.

[nerbert]

I would like to display a net rating equal to (good rating) - ( bad rating). I thought it would be easy to define a new variable in helpfulanswers.php to do that but it doesn't seem to work.

I can do the phrase edits and HTML but I'm no good at PHP.

Thanks.

[SCuN]

whether it would be possible to do something like that in this modification, for example, posts which got 10 negative ratings [or average] , were hidden and you click that you can see them. This would be useful in hiding does not help or do not need posts

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by SCuN

whether it would be possible to do something like that in this modification, for example, posts which got 10 negative ratings [or average] , were hidden and you click that you can see them. This would be useful in hiding does not help or do not need posts

This is already a feature.

[SCuN]

and on what basis it works because I never see this in the options?

I mean something like the image, but that is an example of Polish web page

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by SCuN

and on what basis it works because I never see this in the options?

I mean something like the image, but that is an example of Polish web page

You'll need to use the 3.8 version to get this feature. I do not support 3.7 anymore.