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.

[Solarflex]

Ok I'm having a problem here and I can't find the answer anywhere..

I'm a total noob when it comes to coding and stuff like this, so I need some explanation..

I have installed this plugin the way it was instructed but it's not showing. I have enabled it on all forums..

What I can't find anywhere in my ACP, however, are the following (emphasis on the bold):
"the Bulk Forum Enabler located in the Helpful Answers Tab."
and I haven't found any option anywhere saying
"manual template override"
So.. where do I find these options?

[Wurstteppich]

Does anyone else have the problem, that it takes 5-6 seconds till the display changes when you rate a post?

[Solarflex]

Ok the helpful answers tab is fixed. I see it now. But I still don't see the manual template override..?

[KProjects]

So - i've been using this and liked it.. then we had some jackass come in and voting thumbs down on a bunch.. I cleared his using the admin panel and now it says:

1 out of 4294967295 members found this post helpful. Did you find this post helpful?

is there a way to recount votes?

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by KProjects

So - i've been using this and liked it.. then we had some jackass come in and voting thumbs down on a bunch.. I cleared his using the admin panel and now it says:

1 out of 4294967295 members found this post helpful. Did you find this post helpful?

is there a way to recount votes?

There are utility scripts inthe first post which can recount votes for you.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Wurstteppich

Does anyone else have the problem, that it takes 5-6 seconds till the display changes when you rate a post?

Sounds like your database is bogged down. How long does it take to submit a thread?

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Solarflex

Ok the helpful answers tab is fixed. I see it now. But I still don't see the manual template override..?

It's one of the first options in the Helpful Answers settings...

[Solarflex]

Originally Posted by Ted S

It's one of the first options in the Helpful Answers settings...

Ah I see. I thought it was that one, but it didn't say "(...) override" but "Manual Template Placement"

But anyway, I have that one set to NO, and all forums have this hack enabled, but I still don't see it...

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Solarflex

Ah I see. I thought it was that one, but it didn't say "(...) override" but "Manual Template Placement"

But anyway, I have that one set to NO, and all forums have this hack enabled, but I still don't see it...

Have you modified your postbit / postbit_legacy templates?

[Wurstteppich]

Originally Posted by Ted S

Sounds like your database is bogged down. How long does it take to submit a thread?

Hi Ted,

database is fine, posting itself is done in a second.