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.

[vivamexico55]

BTW this works fine with 4.06, except for that particular bug I had with the images, but I solved it using text mode.

[ascott]

I get this when someone selects a thread.

%1$s members found this post helpful

[Bigj85]

any possibility to do a feature in a future release where you can set a different help topic for different threads and forums.
For example you could set helpful answers to work on forums or threads you have dedicated to music,movies,games or whatever and set separate topics and questions per forum instead of just "Did you find this post helpful".
So you could do something like "Did you like this movie" for a movie thread or forum and "Did you like this game or review" for a gaming thread/forum.

I think that a feature like that could make this the ultimate rating system,especially if the helpfulanswers.php page was divided into those categories and instead of post# of top posts like you have now maybe you could use the post title if the user made one,so a user could make their post the movie or game or whatever title and helpfulanswers.php would say something like

Movie - Get Him to the Greek - in thread: Rate This Movie Thread - forum title - rating blah blah
instead of
post - 55342 - in thread: Rate This Movie Thread - forum title - rating blah blah
like it does now

I tried to explain that as best I could and here's an image of the forum manager where helpful answers enabler setting are, to give you a better idea what I mean I added a bit to the image.

http://img412.imageshack.us/f/helpansexample.png/

Hope you like the idea,been using this mod since 3.8x and always thought it would be the ultimate rating system with this option
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[Ted S]

Originally Posted by ascott

I get this when someone selects a thread.

%1$s members found this post helpful

Is this a new install or an upgrade?

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Bigj85

any possibility to do a feature in a future release where you can set a different help topic for different threads and forums.
For example you could set helpful answers to work on forums or threads you have dedicated to music,movies,games or whatever and set separate topics and questions per forum instead of just "Did you find this post helpful".
So you could do something like "Did you like this movie" for a movie thread or forum and "Did you like this game or review" for a gaming thread/forum.

Hum. If all you wanted to change was the question and not the style (i.e. always have pos & neg votes or just pos) you could tweak things fairly easily to localize the questions to forums either with conditionals (for a few forums) or a new variable (for lots of forums).

[lazyseller]

Awesome hack as always

How would i go about only allow a users to rate 1 post per thread?

We are having a most helpful answer contest but a vote could go to multiples answers.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by lazyseller

Awesome hack as always

How would i go about only allow a users to rate 1 post per thread?

We are having a most helpful answer contest but a vote could go to multiples answers.

You would have to modify the addon a bit to check if they already voted in the thread (pretty much clone the check if they voted on the post but change postid to threadid).

[bfdzio]

Some members are requesting the ability to disable having posts collapsed. I don't care personally, but if it isn't hard to have the option on a per member basis (default to collapse), that would be nice.

[Bigj85]

Originally Posted by Ted S

Hum. If all you wanted to change was the question and not the style (i.e. always have pos & neg votes or just pos) you could tweak things fairly easily to localize the questions to forums either with conditionals (for a few forums) or a new variable (for lots of forums).

by chance do you know the conditional for certain threads? something like

<if condition="$thread['threadid']==x">different question<else />{vb:rawphrase helpfulanswer_didyoufind}</if>

I thought that was it but its not working

[sticky]

Originally Posted by Ted S

Yup, remove it all.

It works great! Thank you

Now members won't be pm'ing me asking why they can't rate posts.