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.

[anupam_luv]

Originally Posted by Ted S

Are you using a customized or default template?

What version of vb?

I'm also facing this problem, I cant see any message or thumbs up pic to rate .... Im using custom template with only some style vars changed to get custom colors...

Plz help...

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by anupam_luv

I'm also facing this problem, I cant see any message or thumbs up pic to rate .... Im using custom template with only some style vars changed to get custom colors...

Plz help...

First check that you have the mod turned on and enabled for the forum you are viewing threads in.

Copy the postbit / postbit legacy template and try reverting it. If that fixes it you'll know why.

[FractalizeR]

Originally Posted by pc-forum.dk

As I can see, i'm not the only one who experience that nothing shows in the threads. I have both Bulk Enabled it, and checked under forum manager that every single one of them has it enabled. But still, nothing shows up. What to do? What have I missed? What should I be looking for? Sorry for the inconvenience

The first thing you need to check is if your style templates are original or at least if default template hooks are in place there.

[pc-forum.dk]

I have tried with both the default skin and with a customized, neither works. I am pretty sure I have enabled it, but again - I might have misunderstood how to enable it. As I said in my post, I have enabled it under all of my forums under Forum Manager and by Bulk enabling.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by pc-forum.dk

I have tried with both the default skin and with a customized, neither works. I am pretty sure I have enabled it, but again - I might have misunderstood how to enable it. As I said in my post, I have enabled it under all of my forums under Forum Manager and by Bulk enabling.

Check an individual forum to make sure the setting 'stuck'. Also check your overall settings to be sure the modifcation is on and not set to hide its self on the post you are viewing.

[pc-forum.dk]

I have checked it under every single forum - and it is on. And if you mean Bulk by overal settings, then yes. So I'm actually not sure what you mean by "not set to hide its self on the post you are viewing."

[vicelover]

Hi, Ted S

Can I use this mod for Blog Entries and CMS articles? If no, can we add this feature. In that way, not only can user rate the thread/post, but also blog entries and CMS articles.

Best Regards.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by vicelover

Hi, Ted S

Can I use this mod for Blog Entries and CMS articles? If no, can we add this feature. In that way, not only can user rate the thread/post, but also blog entries and CMS articles.

Best Regards.

You would need a seperate mod to do this.

[vivamexico55]

Ted, do you think uninstalling and reinstalling would fix the fact that it doesn't show on my forum?

[FractalizeR]

BUG:
With "Hide Negative Posts" enabled and "Hide Negative Posts - Count" > 0 all unvoted posts are hidden.

The cause:

Line 954 in xml: 
if($vbulletin->options['helpans_hidelow'] AND (($post['goodrank'] - $post['totalrank']) < $vbulletin->options['helpans_hidelownum']) ){

The solution:
Change the above line to:

if($vbulletin->options['helpans_hidelow'] AND (($post['totalrank'] - $post['goodrank']) > $vbulletin->options['helpans_hidelownum']) ){