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.

[Ted S]

That's not the variable field but is of course a bad result.

Is 1 constant or does it change to reflect the number of votes?

[grey_goose]

The '1' is constant.

[Ted S]

and everything in the mod and your postbit template is stock? no code changes?

[grey_goose]

The postbit is heavily modified, and I'm deploying the mod manually, but the only thing I changed on the mod was the images used in the template (from GIF to PNG).

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by grey_goose

The postbit is heavily modified, and I'm deploying the mod manually, but the only thing I changed on the mod was the images used in the template (from GIF to PNG).

The manual placement may have something to do with it but I'm going to have to dig around a bit... Hopefully it's something I can recreate fairly easily but give me a few days

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Ted S

The manual placement may have something to do with it but I'm going to have to dig around a bit... Hopefully it's something I can recreate fairly easily but give me a few days

Can you try changing the voting option to a style other than rollovers? This will help me debug where the issue is coming from...

[TheLastSuperman]

Originally Posted by grey_goose

The postbit is heavily modified, and I'm deploying the mod manually, but the only thing I changed on the mod was the images used in the template (from GIF to PNG).

Do you mind posting a copy of your postbit template code? It's so much easier for us to review it and look for mistakes or conflicts .

[GE-Tom]

Hey,

i have a problem. he shows me "%1$s like that....." if i deaktivate the negativ rating. Can you help me plz? And how can i reset all votings? Is it posible? Thanks a lot.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by GE-Tom

Hey,

i have a problem. he shows me "%1$s like that....." if i deaktivate the negativ rating. Can you help me plz? And how can i reset all votings? Is it posible? Thanks a lot.

What happens if you changing the voting style to an option other than the rollover icons?

[GE-Tom]

With Yes or Now it looks right. But in like the other option.