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.

[SCuN]

I used version 3.8 but still can not find this option ... whenever I click minus the post and so have estimation of +0 ... When I click on + everything is okay +1

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by SCuN

I used version 3.8 but still can not find this option ... whenever I click minus the post and so have estimation of +0 ... When I click on + everything is okay +1

The option is in the Helpful Answers configuration, you must enable the feature and set a threshold for posts to be hidden, they must then have a number below that threshold for it to work.

[SCuN]

uninstalled version 2.0.0b, installed version 2.0.5 , really not find this option, I attach a screen with the setup on my vB

[toolblast]

Installed on 3.6 and getting the same issue as other posters in this thread where it is showing ONLY on the FIRST POST of each page in the thread. For example, it shows on the OP but then none of the other posts on that thread page, but when you go to page 2 of the thread, its on the first post of that page.... but not on any others. Very strange.

Other than that the plugin works, when I click it the votes are cast and it works... but only on the first post which isnt what I need.. I want it showing on all posts!!!

Anyone find a solution????

[toolblast]

Found the solution, for those running 3.6 go into the plugin that renders the postbit start, and remove the 'hook' code that appears somewhere in the middle... it doesn't seem to affect anything and now the ratings will appear on all posts instead of just the first one.

[toolblast]

AJAX still appears to not be working... when I click the thumbs it refreshes the page and I lose where I was. However, the function does work and shows 1 of 1 members found helpful, etc. But it isn't ajax which is annoying as it refreshes the page and scrolls back to the top.

Any solutions to this??? I've added in the yahoo ajax js libraries... still nothing

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by toolblast

AJAX still appears to not be working... when I click the thumbs it refreshes the page and I lose where I was. However, the function does work and shows 1 of 1 members found helpful, etc. But it isn't ajax which is annoying as it refreshes the page and scrolls back to the top.

Any solutions to this??? I've added in the yahoo ajax js libraries... still nothing

This mod is for 3.7... I would expect some issues on 3.6