Version: 2.4.2, by Ted S
Developer Last Online: Nov 2020
Category: Add-On Releases -
Version: 4.x.x
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Released: 01-15-2010
Last Update: 08-11-2012
Installs: 592
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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.
This system works fine with many 4.x sites as noted by other members over past posts. If you provided actual details, I'm sure we could figure out what's not happening for your specific forum but it's pretty hard to do much with "doesn't work good."
I'm not understanding if you don't like the concept or the execution. If the former, by all means, don't use what isn't right for you. If the later, perhaps you'll grace us with some details to help insure it gets improved?
Hmmm, 555+ installs, I would say you are a bit late.
And the 4,000,000+ votes that have taken place through those installs (anonymous reporting is an admin option). Suppose that means a few people must like it... maybe, sorta?
[Edit: Make that 6.4 million. Guess they didn't get the memo that it stinks yet ]
I own several photography forums, and I'm looking for a solution that would let members nominate posts for consideration to be featured on the front page/CMS. This looks like it will work really well for that - I would check the stats daily and see which posts receive multiple nominations - but it has a lot more options/features than I need. Does it affect performance much on a big board?
I own several photography forums, and I'm looking for a solution that would let members nominate posts for consideration to be featured on the front page/CMS. This looks like it will work really well for that - I would check the stats daily and see which posts receive multiple nominations - but it has a lot more options/features than I need. Does it affect performance much on a big board?
Everything dynamic impacts performance but this mod is pretty low on the threshold as it's primarily just extending existing queries to call in votes and, on occasion, append them in. It's by no means without it's hit but it was designed thinking about how to avoid new calls (and mark options which require them clearly).
The biggest boards using the mod pull in six figures worth of votes themselves, so you can infer from that what their size is.
There's no import feature at this point... not sure how they work exactly if you can explain?
One like = one helpful answer vote. There are no down votes. There was an importer for this mod for the likes. This was the query:
PHP Code:
"select p.postid,p.userid,ha.dateline as date,ha.userid as whoadded,hp.threadid,u.username,l.l_contentid ".
"from ".vbseo_tbl_prefix('helpfulanswer')." ha inner join ".vbseo_tbl_prefix('post')." p on (ha.postid = p.postid) ".
"inner join ".vbseo_tbl_prefix('helpfulpost')." hp on (ha.postid = hp.postid) ".
"inner join ".vbseo_tbl_prefix('user')." u on (ha.userid = u.userid) ".
"left join ".vbseo_tbl_prefix('vbseo_likes')." l on l_ctype=1 and l_contentid=p.postid and l_from_userid=ha.userid ".
"where ha.yesno = 1";
One like = one helpful answer vote. There are no down votes. There was an importer for this mod for the likes. This was the query:
PHP Code:
"select p.postid,p.userid,ha.dateline as date,ha.userid as whoadded,hp.threadid,u.username,l.l_contentid ". "from ".vbseo_tbl_prefix('helpfulanswer')." ha inner join ".vbseo_tbl_prefix('post')." p on (ha.postid = p.postid) ". "inner join ".vbseo_tbl_prefix('helpfulpost')." hp on (ha.postid = hp.postid) ". "inner join ".vbseo_tbl_prefix('user')." u on (ha.userid = u.userid) ". "left join ".vbseo_tbl_prefix('vbseo_likes')." l on l_ctype=1 and l_contentid=p.postid and l_from_userid=ha.userid ". "where ha.yesno = 1";
Very Cool.
Just remember, there's 3 bits of logging involved in votes:
helpfulpost - which stores the post level totals (so we don't have calculate every load)
helpfulanswer - which records the votes (so we know every detail to report / manage)
and then a record on the user level (for profile views)
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