Force comment when giving reputation

[northernstar]

Is there a way to force comments to be entered when someone gives/takes away your reputation? I find it annoying when someone takes away points and doesn't give reason.

[ScottA]

Well, I know I'm replying to a 2 month old post, but this came up in my search and I figured this might be helpful.

I wanted to know the same thing, but didn't find any instructions on how to do this. So I figured it out for myself.

Open reputation.php and look for the following:

PHP Code:

if ($_POST['do'] == 'addreputation') 


Change that to:

PHP Code:

if ($_POST['do'] == 'addreputation' && strlen(trim($_POST['reason'])) > 0) 


Now if someone doesn't enter a comment the reputation will not be added. You may also want to edit the reputationbit template to note that.

[Musicpill]

Just so you dont get stuck on the editing reptuation window, heres a little help:

In your style/Styles open the template reputationbit and do the following (Just my example.)

Find

PHP Code:

[your_comments_on_this_post] 


In same line, after add

PHP Code:

<font size=1 color=red>*</font> 


Find

PHP Code:

<input type="text" class="bginput" size="40" maxlength="250" name="reason" />
                </td>
            </tr> 


Undeneith place

PHP Code:

<tr>
<td>
<font size=1 color=red>*Required</font>
</td>
</tr> 


Screenshot of that working:





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[bi11i]

hey, this is great - thanks for the answer to a question i've been searching on for quite awhile.

[Jamie-UK]

This is great, thank you.

Just one query... How can I not have a radio button selected, so that the user has to select either approve or disapprove when giving reputation ?

At the moment, positive reputation is always selected and this has led people to accidentally approve, when they meant to disapprove.

Regards.

Jamie

[zylstra]

I would guess in reputationbit change:

<div><label for="rb_reputation_pos"><input type="radio" name="reputation" 
value="pos" id="rb_reputation_pos" checked="checked" />
$vbphrase[i_approve]</label></div>

to

<div><label for="rb_reputation_pos"><input type="radio" name="reputation" 
value="pos" id="rb_reputation_pos" />
$vbphrase[i_approve]</label></div>

[alfaowner]

this didnt do the trick for v3.5.4 incase anyone wondered? It still submitted a vote even though neither box was selected.

[BPnet]

Great work!

Very helpful - thanks!

[ballpnet]

Apologies for the bump on an old thread. I've searched the forums for the most part and have yet to find a way to fully implement this feature for 3.6.8. The above hack works in the sense that no reputation gets added/deducted from a user. However, the reputation box just disappears without any notice if the user hits "Add to reputation."

Is there a way to tweak the javascript in the backend to validate the "Comments" field? Thank you very much for any assistance rendered.

[Analogpoint]

Have you seen this?

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=123161