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.

[garretbyrne]

I've copied in {vb:raw helpful_answers} again to underneath signature and put the settings on manual but nothing, lol..

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by garretbyrne

Hi I've an issue I've installed this but can't get it to work, I've gone over all the settings everything looks fine but in the posts theres nothing to do with helpful answers I'm using postbit_legacy. no sign of it at all, I've even gone manual and placed the code under the signature but again nothing...

Can anyone help?
Cheers

Have you enabled it in any forums?

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by mandingo

I'm using legacy as well, but it really shouldnt matter. I think we need to include the variable $helpful_answers but I don't know how. Not sure just putting {vb:raw helpful_answers} is doing what we need it to. Ted will show us the way.

Have you enabled it in the forum you are viewing threads in?

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by mandingo

I tried the thumbs with rollover and that worked,then i tried the +'s and it stayed thumbs.

Thanks. I will look into this for the next beta release.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by gyaronn

nice mod i get this error can you help

Can you tell me which options you have enabled for this mod and when this error shows?

[mandingo]

Originally Posted by Ted S

Have you enabled it in the forum you are viewing threads in?

Yep,it works when I let the mod take care of it.

Originally Posted by Ted S

Thanks. I will look into this for the next beta release.

Thanks man.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by mandingo

I'm using legacy as well, but it really shouldnt matter. I think we need to include the variable $helpful_answers but I don't know how. Not sure just putting {vb:raw helpful_answers} is doing what we need it to. Ted will show us the way.

All you should need is to use that tag {vb:raw helpful_answers}

Try this version of the XML as well

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by mandingo

I tried the thumbs with rollover and that worked,then i tried the +'s and it stayed thumbs.

This has been fixed in 2.1.1 now posted

[Ted S]

Version 2.1.1 has been released which fixes manual template placement and issues with the plus/minus and static voting options.

[mandingo]

Thanks,installing now.