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

Helpful Answers has been used to record over 6 MILLION times on more than 2,000 forums. If you're not using HA your users are looking for it!

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 to rate individual posts as either helpful or not allowing future visitors to understand the value of each post.

Designed to be flexible, HA has over 30 configurable settings:

• Use image or text ratings AJAX or traditional links.
• Offer yes/no or scaled 1-10 point ranking.
• Turn off negative ratings for a positive only system.
• Decide which forums are open for helpful answer ratings.
• Audit the system and identify top users and potential abusers.
• Ban specific members from using the system.
• Customize the message shown after a post is rated.
• Show a page with the top helpful posts.
• Show rating stats on a user's profile.
• Hide posts that rate "too low"
• Template driven so you can customize it all for 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 [Must Read]:

Step 1: Upload the addon files found in the upload/ folder to your forum directory
Step 2: Install the plugin through your vB Administration area
Step 3: Configure settings & enable the mod in individual forums

You must configure settings & enable forums before voting will show up.
Anonymous Stats Tracking (optional):

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. You can disable this through the admin.

Mod Philosophy -- Drive Your Own Success:

All of my mods are inspired by my work in digital marketing and are designed to drive registrations, interaction or other engagement activities the core platform does not address.

Each is designed to fit a general need by providing a starting point but it's on you to decide how to make things work to their best possible outcome. Feel free to suggest what you'd like to see next but don't wait to have what everyone else has; figure out what your forum needs and customize away.

[sticky]

Can I turn off the the helpful answer rating for posts made by admins and mods?

Also, can admins mods be exempted from votes per day rules, etc.?

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by sticky

Can I disable the text and just have the thumbs up or down image?

You can edit the phrase and change the display however you like.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by sticky

Can I turn off the the helpful answer rating for posts made by admins and mods?

Also, can admins mods be exempted from votes per day rules, etc.?

Wrap the entire helpful_answers_roll template in a conditional that checks the group of the post user. May require a little edit to the php as well.

[sticky]

Originally Posted by Ted S

Wrap the entire helpful_answers_roll template in a conditional that checks the group of the post user. May require a little edit to the php as well.

I have no idea how to do this.

[Sparky McSmith]

Is there a way to make a post collapse (be somewhat hidden) when it receives are certain number of negative ratings?

Can this be done with this mod?

[archet1337]

I have a weird problem

For some reason I am not allowed to rate the first post in certain threads..

I have checked that "hide on first post" is set to off. In some forums I can rate the first and in others I can't. I have also made sure helpful answers is enabled in all forums.

Example:
http://www.digi-tech.org/news-info/98-change-log.html - This first post you can rate
http://www.digi-tech.org/web-design/...er-design.html - This first post you can't rate

I don't get it.

Any help would be much appreciated.

[dinodonk]

can i use it like yahoo answer? thread starter only can pick one reply.

[jGas]

hi!
thanks for the upgrade for vb4!

i'm running a vb4 test board, and when i look at the last "helpful ratings" in my settings, the boxes on the left are broken.
please look at the screenshot for the original skin of vb4.0.2.

thank you.

[ahmedbehiry]

If I need to modify the icon size used in this addon, do I need to modify any temlates other than the "helpful_answers_roll"? as I tried modifying it but didn't see any changes happening.. or this is a cache issue?

[widemind]

When I opt to disallow negative votes, the thumbs up / thumbs down icon changes to a simple "yes" in text, instead of just a thumbs up - even though I have the thumbs-up image option selected, not the text option. Am I the only one having this problem?