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.

[gjc]

Is there a way to only allow certain users or usergroups to use this mod. I want only a couple to have access and all others to be able to see the results but not have voting options.

[Filgga]

Originally Posted by lycheepassion

I get this error in PL2 vb 4 Warning: curl_setopt() [function.curl-setopt]: Invalid curl configuration option in [path]/helpfulanswers.php on line 483

Same error here... Unistalled! No response means no solution

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

[The_____KinG]

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

same error here help appreciated

[ShadowStalker]

Should be changed to no longer supported if the dev doesn't reply.

[mmackinnon]

same problem. Hope this gets resolved.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by YZFRydn

Should be changed to no longer supported if the dev doesn't reply.

Still around, just not as frequently as some would like.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by The_____KinG

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

same error here help appreciated

Disable the annonoymous report option and this will go away.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Filgga

Same error here... Unistalled! No response means no solution

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

Actually the solution has been posted many times before, and involves toggling one setting (turning off anonymous reporting). As much as it's up to dev to respond it's also a great idea to search the thread.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by CvP

Hi Ted.
Is the next version due anytime soon? will it include remove rating by users (usually because of misclick)?

I'm looking to bring other coders in to help develop this, if not I'll make some updates later in Q1 including removing a vote.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by IndigoSociety

Fixed with bulk tool. Didn't realize I had to do that. Probably should add that in readme.

Great mod!

It's the last step of the instructions and bolded. Also in the settings page.