Miscellaneous Hacks - [DBTech] Random Questions v2 (vB3)

Random Questions: What is it?

DragonByte Technologies is proud to present version 1.0 of [DBTech] Random Questions.


The Random Questions mod is intended to increase activity in your forum, attract back old members, and encourage members to form friendships (and thus stay).

It accomplishes this by allowing/encouraging users to answer random questions about each other. The questions are settable by the admin (5 included in the Lite XML as an example). The questions can be anything from ?What do you think {usernames} favourite game is?? to ?Do you think {username} Wants a pet dinosaur??. These questions usually serve to bring random people closer together, and have people communicate with each other who otherwise might not have. It's a great way to inspire closer bonds in your community (And, of course, having friends is one of the big reason people stay on forums).

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* It helps you to stay on top of updates - members who have installed modifications will be notified by us whenever new updates are available.

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* Marking a modification as installed also helps us know how many people are using our work, giving us extra incentive to provide more features and new modifications.

We appreciate the support!
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Lite Feature List:

v2.0 Features:

Answer Rating: You can rate the answers people have given you via your own profile. Let people know what you think of their answers!


v1.1 Features:

Random Questions: This lets users click on a tab to start answering random questions about other members, anything from should they post more, to what animal would they be. The questions load in realtime AJAX, and after submitting an answer, a new question will fade in.

Notifications: Users are notified whenever a new answer is submitted about them, letting them keep up to date on what people are saying about them!

Profile ?Answers? Tab: Adds a new tab to the profile letting you keep track of what answers have been made about you.

Permissions: Set who can use the mod, exactly what answers they can see and what options are available to them.

Question Manager: Allows admins to add, edit or delete questions to be asked. You can add an Unlimited number of questions in here


Extra Pro Features:

Extra Privacy Options: Set whether your answer is public or private, per answer. This lets you answer a question about someone without the rest of the forum seeing what you said.

Specify who to answer about: This lets you choose who you want to answer questions about ? Everyone, Friends, Online users or even specify a particular person!

User Options: A variety of extra options for users, allowing them to submit questions for consideration, toggle the notification on new answers and more.

Requests: Lets users send PMs requesting specific other users answer questions about them

User Limitations: Require X posts to have questions answered about that member, require X answers to see answers about oneself.


Feature List: Lite
Front-End

• Answer Questions Page
  • Ajax submitting/reloading of questions
  • Log statistics about each answer
  • Send notification for new answers

• Profiles
  • Answers Tab
  • Answer Ratings

AdminCP

• vBulletin Options
  • Global enable/disable
  • Turn statistic tracking on/off
  • Turn request PM's on/off
  • Turn review questions on/off

• Usergroup Permissions
  • Can view own answers
  • Can view all answers
  • Can view private answers
  • Can specify own questions
  • Can submit questions for review
  • Can send request PM

• Edit User
  • Is user banned from viewing/answering questions

• Question Manager
  • Add/Edit/Delete questions
  • View/Approve pending questions for review

Feature List: Pro
Front-End

• Answer Questions Page
  • Set answer as public/private
  • Specify if answering for - random users/specified user/friends/users online
  • Require x posts to be included
  • Require X answers to read answers

• Options
  • Specify own questions page
  • Toggle notification on new answers
  • Define usernames to answer questions about
  • Submit questions for review page

• Profiles
  • Send request PM asking for question to be asked about yourself

• Misc
  • Random Answer Widget/Bar

[DragonByte Tech]

Just uploaded a small maintenance release. The issues with the submit button should be gone now and the request link is gone from profiles.

[FleXy]

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

Just uploaded a small maintenance release. The issues with the submit button should be gone now

yes, sure

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

and the request link is gone from profiles.

why? and how to use it at lite version if its not allow to request users to answer and if random need to answer questions about silets users for years. that does not need anybody.

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by FleXy

why? and how to use it at lite version if its not allow to request users to answer and if random need to answer questions about silets users for years. that does not need anybody.

Because it is a Pro feature only. The link got left in by accident in the last update.

- David

[Abu2]

Hi! i can't delete questions - there is a white page, when click "delete"...

[yotsume]

Great MOD but no WOL? The whos Online shows as Unknown Location! Can you please tell us how to fix that???

[yotsume]

UGGG!!! How can I set it so that the option for receive notifications is set to yes by default please.

[yotsume]

So please tell me how do we submit a quest to be added by the admin? I have the pro version and there seems to be no way to submit a question even though that is stated as an option!?

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by yotsume

So please tell me how do we submit a quest to be added by the admin? I have the pro version and there seems to be no way to submit a question even though that is stated as an option!?

Please keep pro discussions on our site Post a new thread over there.

- David

[Warlord]

I can't figure out how to answer questions about anyone.

I've updated the user permissions, so that's not it. I even added a question just to see if it needed a little kick in the pants to get going.

Attached is a screen shot of the Random Questions tab as seen on my members profiles.

Am I missing something here?

[yotsume]

Well then lets try a lite question then:

The notifications do NOT work on vb3.7x. When a user selects to have notifications and a new question is answered it does not show under the notifications as shown in your screen shot no matter if the option is set to yes or no.

What am I missing here please?