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.

[dlewisr]

Nice mod. Installed, nominated and rated. Cheers

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by The Rocketeer

Hi, could you help me adding some space between this and the forum postbit border please?

currently its touching it.



edit: would also be nice if you introduced some new and more professional looking thumbs icons

Just add a margin attribute (style="margin-right:10px;") to the div in the helpful_answers template. If this sounds like greek let me know.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Cybertims

Here's a problem I've got.

When someone makes a helpful thread all is fine, if a post inside that thread is marked as unhelpful the entire thread is then hidden, is is possible to only hide the posts that are marked as unhelpful?

Cheers

That's how the feature is designed to work. Have you modified any of your post templates or have other addons that alter posts?

[Cybertims]

Originally Posted by Ted S

That's how the feature is designed to work. Have you modified any of your post templates or have other addons that alter posts?

Not that I know of, which file is likely to be the one changed to cause this? What should I be looking for?

Cheers in advance

[Willy T]

To add to the customization (& ultimately allowing this mod to be used in an alternative fashion), can you add a function to only allow the feedback on the first post?

Example: Used for ranking someones essay or statement.

The built in stars feature doesn't have the same benefits as your mod. That's basically my only reason for the request.

Thanks for your time!

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Cybertims

Not that I know of, which file is likely to be the one changed to cause this? What should I be looking for?

Cheers in advance

postbit or postbit_legacy related changes or templates

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Willy T

To add to the customization (& ultimately allowing this mod to be used in an alternative fashion), can you add a function to only allow the feedback on the first post?

Example: Used for ranking someones essay or statement.

The built in stars feature doesn't have the same benefits as your mod. That's basically my only reason for the request.

Thanks for your time!

Check the options out!

[Britmovie]

Hi not certain if this is a past problem I have searched. When the mod is enabled new posts that should be at the top and older at bottom appear all mixed. When disabled new posts are at the top again?

Anyone have a clue please?

[Willy T]

Originally Posted by Ted S

Check the options out!

Of course I have. Unless it's hidden or rephrased, I only have any option that shows hide first post rating & not the other way around.

I want it so you can only vote on the first post & not the rest. What option would this be under?

Thank you kindly for your quick replies. It is greatly appreciated.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Britmovie

Hi not certain if this is a past problem I have searched. When the mod is enabled new posts that should be at the top and older at bottom appear all mixed. When disabled new posts are at the top again?

Anyone have a clue please?

Are you using the hide negative ranked option? The mod doesn't resort any posts.