Forum Display Enhancements - [AJAX] Helpful Threads - Thread Rating System

After releasing Helpful Answers, a post rating system, many users commented that they wanted a more interactive way to rank and then sort threads. Helpful Threads is an AJAX based system that does exactly that letting users rate individual threads and then lets you sort by those ratings. The addon also switches from a positive / negative rating to a point system with one admin option.

Designed for maximum flexibility:

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

• The ability to decide which forums are open for helpful answer ratings.
• The ability to customize the AJAX message shown after a post is rated.
• The ability to set a minimum post count for users to avoid abuse.
• The ability to use a rating system and assign points.
• The ability to customize how threads are ranked.
• The ability to auto reset votes for thread rankings.
• Template driven display that can easily be customized to your forum.

Load & Scale:
This addon is designed to work with small to large sites and does not alter any existing tables.

Modification Installation:
This addon requires uploading multiple files, installing a vBulletin product and enabling the feature in any forums you wish. One template modification is 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 made the template change.

Coming Soon:
Like with Helpful Answers, the initial release is intended to get people exposed to this tool. Coming down the road I will be adding in more complex ranking options, the ability to report on threads, better AJAX support and much more.

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.

Updates:
- 08/29/2009 - Release of 1.0.2 stable

Other Versions:
This addon will work with 3.7 and is supported in the same thread.

[kalisekj]

Awesome Mod! Thank You Very Much! I have had an issue on My site where users just did not see the ranking for a thread / Movie Page. I have changed the word from points to Stars for the Rating of a movie or content thread.
Example Here : http://freeonlinemoviesforum.com/200...126.html?f=126

What I would love to see happen is the ability to actually integrate this with the Thread Rating so That when a person chooses the stars rating for a movie it also displays or changes the thread rating stars. So If a Movie is 8 stars on average the 8 stars show up to the right of the thread and within the thread. Then I can get rid of the VB thread rating altogether and your system will serve in its place. For Now I will just change the thread rating stars as I see the rating on the movie change.
By Doing This you can also incorporate points system for this mod easily.

Account to view threads without survey:
Login: testaccount
Password: fomf

[kalisekj]

For some reason it will not let you rate the first thread in any given forum, of course once that thread gets moved down the list you can then rate it.

[reddyink]

Ted,

Are you planning to integrate points into this system? Please help me out here!

Thanks

Originally Posted by Ted S

Got it.

I think helpful threads accomplishes point #2 out of the box and the slick deals mod with a few template conditionals so what's really left for core functionality is the points integration plus styling. Does that sound right to you?

[COL NIL SATIS]

Reserved!!

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by reddyink

Ted,

Are you planning to integrate points into this system? Please help me out here!

Thanks

I'm up for making changes to bring this mod right into your vision but other mods are not my speciality. I'd prefer to let their communities do the modding. If no one comes up with it and find some good downtime, I'll give it my own shot.

[reddyink]

Ted,

Thank you very much. If you can help on Helpful Threads portion , I can work with others to integrate the solution.

many thanks again.

Originally Posted by Ted S

I'm up for making changes to bring this mod right into your vision but other mods are not my speciality. I'd prefer to let their communities do the modding. If no one comes up with it and find some good downtime, I'll give it my own shot.

[Ted S]

What other changes are you looking for to bring it in line with your goals?

[reddyink]

Ted,

Most of the work deals with Helpful threads only. Points systems is critical. Next is, alignment of thumbs in showthread and forum display.

I already have collapsable post done. Once Helpful Threads portion of the the work is done, it will get to my description https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showt...94#post1905694.

Your help will be greatly appreciated and properly acknowledged.

Thanks

Originally Posted by Ted S

What other changes are you looking for to bring it in line with your goals?

[AllinJac]

Is this mod dead?

Also it appears in Experience that Helpful Threads and Helful Posts are supported by Experience... Is this so?

Thanks!

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by AllinJac

Is this mod dead?

Also it appears in Experience that Helpful Threads and Helful Posts are supported by Experience... Is this so?

Thanks!

Not dead, but not a lot of discussion.

I'm not familiar with 'experience'?