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.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by 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?

This is coded into the XML file.

[ahmedbehiry]

SO i NEED TO CHANGE IT FROM THE PRODUCT XML FILE BEFORE INSTALLING IT?

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by ahmedbehiry

SO i NEED TO CHANGE IT FROM THE PRODUCT XML FILE BEFORE INSTALLING IT?

If you want to edit the image sizes, sure.

[DarknessDivine]

Originally Posted by vivamexico55

Possible bug: When I give myself a thumbs up (after allowing this in the settings), I get:

%1$s members found this post helpful

edit: I'm not sure what's wrong but it seems it's not saving my choice on the Rating Display (Select how the rating options should be shown.)

I choose images and it only shows the "Yes" text... this seems to modify whether the bug of %1$s shows or not. In some options it works as intended.

edit again: On further review, the problems seem to originate when I change the "Allow negative responses" setting to "No".

Originally Posted by Greight

Same problem here. When I disable negative rating after I rate a post this is shown: %1$s members found this post helpful.

I am having the same issue version 4.02

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by DarknessDivine

I am having the same issue version 4.02

You have negative turned to 'no' but which voting display option are you using?

[DarknessDivine]

Originally Posted by Ted S

You have negative turned to 'no' but which voting display option are you using?

Rollover thumbs which was the only one I could get to actually show up with Negative No checked.

I set it to allow negatives and it works so I guess I can leave it for now.

[Ted S]

Thanks. I'll take another look as this is the same settings one of my sites uses, but without any % issue.

[GONUMBER6]

I am having the same problem with the rollover thumbs and only positive feedback setting as well. Works fine with positive & negative. Using version 4.02

[Wild Bronco]

Installed and working nicely Thanks

I don't know if this has been sugested but, this would be nice for the CMS as well...
10 out of 10 members found this article helpful.

[Wild Bronco]

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