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.

[tpearl5]

For anyone interested with the above I also figured out how to highlight the top post...

Here's what it looks like: http://nikonites.com/feedback-sugges...teractive.html

Assuming you're using postbit_legacy:

Edit template postbit.css:
After

PHP Code:

.postbitlegacy .postbody, .eventbit .eventdetails .eventbody {
    margin-{vb:stylevar left}: {vb:stylevar postbitlegacy_userinfo_width};
    border-{vb:stylevar left}: {vb:stylevar postbit_userinfo_border};
    background: {vb:stylevar postbit_background};
    _background-image: none;
    padding-bottom: 1em;
} 


Add

PHP Code:

.postbitlegacy .postbody.toppost {
    background: #F0FFF0;
} 


In postbit_legacy
After

<div class="postbody

Add

<vb:if condition="$post['threadid'] AND $toppost == $post['postid']">toppost</vb:if>

So the line will look like this:

<div class="postbody <vb:if condition="$post['threadid'] AND $toppost == $post['postid']">toppost</vb:if>">

The above must be done for this to work.

[tpearl5]

If anyone ended up using this yesterday, I added a small condition so that private messages would not highlight ($post['threadid'] AND $toppost == $post['postid']) it is included above.

[vivamexico55]

I hope this mod is revamped soon so all these positive changes are integrated, thanks for your contributions

[wefictionjoe]

I'm sure this was asked someone else, but i can't seem to find it.

Is there any way or allowing the user to change their vote?
For example, if I like a post, and then the poster changes the content, I'd like the ability to revoke my like, or at the very least, dislike the new post.

Thanks. Great Mod. Site is almost done.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by wefictionjoe

I'm sure this was asked someone else, but i can't seem to find it.

Is there any way or allowing the user to change their vote?
For example, if I like a post, and then the poster changes the content, I'd like the ability to revoke my like, or at the very least, dislike the new post.

Thanks. Great Mod. Site is almost done.

Not at this time.

[sticky]

For the next version could we get it so that for the minimum post check the helpful answers block does not disappear, it instead shows an error when clicked informing the user that their post count is not yet high enough?

With the minimum post check the way it is, people think there is an error that it does not show.

[sticky]

Originally Posted by tpearl5

For anyone interested with the above I also figured out how to highlight the top post...

Here's what it looks like: http://nikonites.com/feedback-sugges...teractive.html

Assuming you're using postbit_legacy:

Edit template postbit.css:
After

PHP Code:

.postbitlegacy .postbody, .eventbit .eventdetails .eventbody {
    margin-{vb:stylevar left}: {vb:stylevar postbitlegacy_userinfo_width};
    border-{vb:stylevar left}: {vb:stylevar postbit_userinfo_border};
    background: {vb:stylevar postbit_background};
    _background-image: none;
    padding-bottom: 1em;
} 


Add

PHP Code:

.postbitlegacy .postbody.toppost {
    background: #F0FFF0;
} 


In postbit_legacy
After

<div class="postbody

Add

<vb:if condition="$post['threadid'] AND $toppost == $post['postid']">toppost</vb:if>

So the line will look like this:

<div class="postbody <vb:if condition="$post['threadid'] AND $toppost == $post['postid']">toppost</vb:if>">

The above must be done for this to work.

This is pretty cool! Is there any way to do this so that it automatically highlights posts that have say, 5 people who like the post? Basically just have a setting that an admin can edit, "How many users like post before highlightning?"

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by sticky

For the next version could we get it so that for the minimum post check the helpful answers block does not disappear, it instead shows an error when clicked informing the user that their post count is not yet high enough?

With the minimum post check the way it is, people think there is an error that it does not show.

Great idea!

You should be able to do this just by editing out lines:

} else if ($this->registry->options['helpans_min'] AND $this->registry->userinfo['posts'] < $this->registry->options['helpans_minnum']) {
       // might need to have more post count
       $show['rate_helpfulanswer']=false;

The error part is already build in.

[sticky]

Originally Posted by Ted S

Great idea!

You should be able to do this just by editing out lines:

} else if ($this->registry->options['helpans_min'] AND $this->registry->userinfo['posts'] < $this->registry->options['helpans_minnum']) {
       // might need to have more post count
       $show['rate_helpfulanswer']=false;

The error part is already build in.

I can't seem to find those lines to remove in helpfulanswers.php ?

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by sticky

I can't seem to find those lines to remove in helpfulanswers.php ?

Sorry, those are in the XML plugin file.