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.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by alfanexus

Would it be possible to use this on blogs aswell? So users could rate blogs with the same function?

You would have to duplicate the mod files and tweak them, not hard but not simple either

[Alan_SP]

This would be excellent if it could be used for CMS and blog as well. Anyway, excellent add-on. :up:

[sticky]

Originally Posted by Alan_SP

This would be excellent if it could be used for CMS and blog as well. Anyway, excellent add-on. :up:

On the CMS it would be great!

[sticky]

Ted, this mod was recently released that has a cap on how much negative reputation a user can give: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=251044

Just wanted to see if it would be possible to integrate this cap into the mod

[KityKatze]

Nifty mod, my users love it, thank you!

Found a small bug:

When you rate a thread using the 10-point scale it initially adds your rating to the votes total as well as reworking the rating - eg:


Loading the thread: "This post has been ranked 10 out of 10 with 1 vote"

After rating it also adds the score into how many votes have been cast - In this case 9: "This post has been ranked 9.5 out of 10 with 19 votes"

If you then reload the page you get the proper display: "This post has been ranked 9.5 out of 10 with 2 votes. "


(also, minor point which I've changed in my phrase manager but the default says rate this thread instead of post.)

[Seerkan]

thanks, very helpful

just one thing:

text of the option "Hide Negative Posts - Count" shold be "Hide Negative THREADS- Count"

This option "Set how low the vote must be before hiding a thread"

[sticky]

Ted, would you be able to help me modify the "minimum post count" variable to use "minimum rep point" instead?

[vietfancy]

After click on voting (the thumb) I get this code...

PHP Code:

Warning: curl_setopt() [function.curl-setopt]: Invalid curl configuration option in [path]/helpfulanswers.php on line 483 


[Ted S]

Originally Posted by vietfancy

After click on voting (the thumb) I get this code...

PHP Code:

Warning: curl_setopt() [function.curl-setopt]: Invalid curl configuration option in [path]/helpfulanswers.php on line 483 


Disable the reporting feature and you'll be all set

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by sticky

Ted, would you be able to help me modify the "minimum post count" variable to use "minimum rep point" instead?

Should be pretty simple... Just need to look up the name of the variable, you can find it in the settings table or source code, once you have it I'll tell you where to swap things out (away from the vB source code right now)