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.

[kmohamed]

Originally Posted by Ted S

This is something I am looking into.

thanx

[bfdzio]

Originally Posted by Ted S

This bug tends to occur when people have modified their templates and duplicated or removed hooks.



Interesting, I'll test this further.

Thanks, the first bug isn't an issue though my template is lightly modified...only in the color scheme though so I am not sure what I could have done other than my mods. The second bug is the one that is keeping me from have this feature turned back on (used to have it on my board previous to vb4. Any fix would be great..

[kmohamed]

ted is a great coder and he would fix this bug soon as possible

[MarcAlle]

Originally Posted by Ted S

Tips & Tricks Using Template Variables:

{vb:raw post.totalrank} - The total number of ratings
{vb:raw post.goodrank} - The number of good ratings
{vb:raw post.badrank} - The number of bad ratings
{vb:raw post.helpfulgood} - True if the post is positive overall (more good than bad ratings)
{vb:raw post.rate_helpfulanswer} - True if the user can rate the post (false if they are banned or have rated it).
{vb:raw post.helpfulanswerid} - True if the user has already rated the post.

I cant get these to work. I have them in the postbit template but it only shows {vb:raw post.goodrank} for the post that is currently there. Is there a way to show the entire rating for the entire forum on each post (kind of like the post count)

[riskofficer]

Hello, is there a way to convert "Post Thank You Hack"s "Thanks" to your system? I have had "Post Thank You Hack" for years, and that is why have big statistics of "Thanks". It will be very pitty to lose them all. Sadly thing that there is no more support for "Thanks" another thing is that you have negative ratings, this is plus.

One more question, is there a way to show who rates a post like in "Thanks" mod?

[FractalizeR]

Abe1 is back so I think it some time he will fix bugs in Thanks.
As for conversion, I think it's possible. But... I think if you will ask some coder about it, it may cost around $50-100 (I mean for conversion script).

One more question, is there a way to show who rates a post like in "Thanks" mod?

I think there should be an option what groups may see this info. Because at least on my forum people just look for ones, who downvoted their posts and downvote theirs despite of post's usefulness.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by riskofficer

Hello, is there a way to convert "Post Thank You Hack"s "Thanks" to your system? I have had "Post Thank You Hack" for years, and that is why have big statistics of "Thanks". It will be very pitty to lose them all. Sadly thing that there is no more support for "Thanks" another thing is that you have negative ratings, this is plus.

Had an import script for the 3.8 version, you could try it on 4.0 but I;m not sure if the thanks mod changed.

One more question, is there a way to show who rates a post like in "Thanks" mod?

That's on the roadmap (as an option).

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by FractalizeR

I think there should be an option what groups may see this info. Because at least on my forum people just look for ones, who downvoted their posts and downvote theirs despite of post's usefulness.

This would be an option for mods only, unless enabled for all members.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by bfdzio

Also I just was tinkering with the 'hide negative rated posts' to see what it would do...I set it to hide a post with 2 negative ratings that was in the middle of a test thread. It hid the post and then also hid every single post underneath it.

I'm not able to duplicate this issue. Can you tell me what method of the post bit you are using and what your settings are for this mod? Thank you.

[UnixGeek]

Ted... thanks for publishing this mod. But, unfortunately for me its not working.

I have vb 4.0.3 version and nothing shows up on the posts. I have checked whether its enabled on the forums. I even searched for the word "helpful" all over my templates including my default one. I thing, the mod is not even editing the templates to include the variable. I also tried adding it manually but it seems to be not working. Kindly, provide me any advice what to check for it to work. Thanks again in advance.