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.

[initiald]

Originally Posted by Ted S

I can't do much with "it's not working"... You'll need to provide some actual details to look into...

Have you enabled the mod in the forum you are viewing?

Do the other options work?

Does anything show up in the voting area?

Sorry. I re-edit the post.

It's not working on vBulletin 4.1.11? The thumbup/thumbdown are not showing on the post. I have set it to display on the forum. Every instruction is followed on the install file. When I test the hide function of post with 10 negative posts, it did work and hide , so something is working there. But the thumbup/thumbdown or any other image vote is simply not showing up. please help..

This is my setting..

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/715/part1n.png/
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/41/part2z.png/
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/690/part3vj.png/

[Ted S]

Since multiple sites have the issue we'll definitely take a look and see what changed in 4.1.11

In the mean time you may want to try the manual template placement to see if the hook location was shifted around. It requires a template edit but may be a work around.... assuming that was the issue of course.

For anyone else reading this: there appears to be a compatibility bug with 4.1.11 which will be looked into. As the reason for this bug isn't known there's no ETA but this does not have any documented impact to the forum [other than causing the mod not to show].

[initiald]

Originally Posted by Ted S

Since multiple sites have the issue we'll definitely take a look and see what changed in 4.1.11

In the mean time you may want to try the manual template placement to see if the hook location was shifted around. It requires a template edit but may be a work around.... assuming that was the issue of course.

For anyone else reading this: there appears to be a compatibility bug with 4.1.11 which will be looked into. As the reason for this bug isn't known there's no ETA but this does not have any documented impact to the forum [other than causing the mod not to show].

Could you please explain how to edit the template (the postbit_legacy right?). Can you post an instruction how to manual do template editing. This might be the cause. I will test it.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by initiald

Could you please explain how to edit the template (the postbit_legacy right?). Can you post an instruction how to manual do template editing. This might be the cause. I will test it.

It's explained in the install guide but assumes you have inserted mods into templates before. If not, we'll be looking at things soon.

[initiald]

The install guide didn't include how to edit template. I guess I'll wait for your fix soon. Thanks

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by initiald

The install guide didn't include how to edit template. I guess I'll wait for your fix soon. Thanks

We've tested the mod on both our custom style and a stock vBulletin 4.1.11 style with the exact same settings you had [thanks for posting the screen shots] and it loads fine.

Does your postbit / legacy template have any customizations that may be altering how it shows?

The attached version of the mod will print debug code [not pretty so you'll want to disable it after getting a screenshot].

[initiald]

Originally Posted by Ted S

We've tested the mod on both our custom style and a stock vBulletin 4.1.11 style with the exact same settings you had [thanks for posting the screen shots] and it loads fine.

Does your postbit / legacy template have any customizations that may be altering how it shows?

The attached version of the mod will print debug code [not pretty so you'll want to disable it after getting a screenshot].

It still doesn't show up for whatever reason.

I'm using a customize style from Digitalvb.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=233338

If it works on that, it should work on mine. I follow instruction but no icon image is shown in the post.

[GE-Tom]

Very nice mod. I have 1 question.

How can i activate or deaktivate it in some forums? I only find the option to activate it in threads but for a forum.

plz help me

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by GE-Tom

Very nice mod. I have 1 question.

How can i activate or deaktivate it in some forums? I only find the option to activate it in threads but for a forum.

plz help me

I'm not sure what you mean. The mod is enabled forum by forum only via the forum manager...

[grey_goose]

This is probably a user error, but is hard to do a Search for "%1$"

I get:
%1$s members found this post helpful. Did you find this post helpful?

Why is it giving me the variable instead of the number?