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.

[bposner]

Ted, seems to work. Thank you for the quick fix. Nice app.
One thing, the calc for the 10 point scale, when you look at the results is just off by one decimal. See below:

Post 58 in thread: How about this Customer to Customer (800%) 1 07-14-2010 08:35 AM

Don't think it's suppose to be 800%

[maidos]

well i get this error when i updated beta 2

Warning: number_format() expects parameter 1 to be double, string given in [path]/includes/class_postbit.php(321) : eval()'d code on line 172

[CvP]

I planned to install this mod after upgrading to 4.0.4
then 4.0.4 was a mess. decided to skip it.
now it seems it is such a mess that it affects this mod too. really sad.
vB devs need to document these critical changes.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by CvP

I planned to install this mod after upgrading to 4.0.4
then 4.0.4 was a mess. decided to skip it.
now it seems it is such a mess that it affects this mod too. really sad.
vB devs need to document these critical changes.

Not to worry... i'll get it all fixed with the help with all the great users here.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by maidos

well i get this error when i updated beta 2

Warning: number_format() expects parameter 1 to be double, string given in [path]/includes/class_postbit.php(321) : eval()'d code on line 172

What are your options?

[CvP]

Originally Posted by Ted S

Not to worry... i'll get it all fixed with the help with all the great users here.

i'll be upgrading to 4.0.5 this weekend. I'll try out this mod on it and will let you know how it went.

[maidos]

Originally Posted by Ted S

What are your options?

well i havent touchd anything so the settings are on default

[maidos]

even if i select text, thumbs pic or plus pic i cant even view thread
all i get is this error too
Unable to add cookies, header already sent.
File: /forum/includes/class_core.php
Line: 4517

[vivamexico55]

Just to let you know that VBulletin released 4.05. I don't know if I should upgrade to it or just stick with 4.04 and get this mod working.

[high6]

I bulk enabled it (couldn't find the individual option). But it still doesn't show. It does how ever place some html on the page.

<div style="text-align: right;" id="helpfulanswers_box_46377">		
				<br><hr size="1" style="">

Edit: ah, running 4.0.4.