Show Thread Enhancements - SAPR: Advanced Post Rating system (ajax)

Seba's Advanced Post Rating (SAPR) system with ajax- beta 2.

What is it?
In short: this is the wet dream of every vb board owner

In big: This is much more!
This adds a thumbs up/down post rating system: youtube style.

But wait there's more!
It not only adds a post rating system that works with and without ajax, but it also adds options to filter posts (on-the-flow with javascript) based on that rating.

That way your users will be able to browse easier trough threads by setting a filter, which collapses posts under a certain rating.
It also will prevent users of flooding you're site with 3 word posts.

AND THERE'S STILL MORE! It also adds a system of 'good posts', you can set a value of what is considered as a good post, and if a post reaches this value, the author gets +1 on his good post score.
So you get to see: this user has 500 posts and 150 good posts.

AND IF THAT ISN'T ENOUGH: it's also completely configurable through the admincp.

And if you download it now you also get a very nice installation guide!!

Reminder / read this
This product is still in beta stage and it can contain bugs, backup every thing you change.

Currently the rating only works with vb 3.7, in the future 3.5 and 3.6 will also be supported, but they will not have ajax rating.

This mod works best if you use the postbit template, for postbit_legacy the filtering has few effect as collapsing still leaves a lot of the post

The good posts system still needs further development, which will be done after this beta testing

This is not a supported product, I'll fix the bugs and continue to work on it, but I'll don't answer questions, never.

Copyright
All heil to seba

Instructions
It's good if you got some basic html knowledge to install this mod
See manual

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Release notes
-13/02/2008: initial version 1.0.0 beta released
-15/02/2008: version 1.0.0 beta 2 released

NEW: option for the rating of first posts in a thread
NEW: option for the rating of own posts
NEW: admincp menu for the postrating with the option to rebuild, prune, reset the system
NEW: a class to prune, rebuild, reset the system
NEW: should work with vb 3.5 and 3.6 (not tested)
SEC FIX: fixed the bypass check bug
BUG FIX: some javascript errors
BUG FIX: some wrong phrases

Known Issues:
As stated: the good posts don't really work as expected in some cases.

Javascript error at some values (reported by stoebi): temporary fix: disable plugin postrate - save at location postdata_postsave.

[rlpartida]

yeah I agree... thanks a lot vhd!!! looking forward for this mod...

Thanks again...

[vhd]

Paul mentioned he would be back in a week.
It would really be good if some of you experiencing problems could let us know what version of vb you are using, and give us details of what is not working and how you expect it to work.

[PaulSonny]

I got back last friday, but I started a new job Monday so i've been settling in here. I'll be working with vhd to get a version working for you. As vha mentions above, the more information you give us the faster we can work on possible fixes.

Thanks, Paul.

[maidos]

Well i run vb 3.7.2 and the post count do not work entirely. when someone gives you a post count one one posts it doesnt update the total post count globally.

And the icons to vote negative and positive is on the same template hook as thank you mods by abe. Appreciate if you can seperate it. And possible assign those icons to a more fitting position

[sockwater]

I think it would make more sense if the thumbsup/down icons were in the post's titlebar (where the reputation scales/post #/report post icons are) AND when the post is collapsed, only show the title bar, instead of showing the postbit user info too. The only change I would do is add the username to the title bar as well.

[SLR722]

I am using it. Problem is guests can vote even with no permissions and you can vote multiple times and a user can vote his own rating, even with ACP config and Permission Config..

???

[glorify]

Nice mod.

My wet dream tho would be to do this for whole threads, and be able to sort thu threads, complete with badges a la Digg.

You are pretty close, but if you did that, I'd imagine it would be one of the most installed hacks here. I know it's been requested almost a million times.

[AzzidReign]

Anyone have the edits done in TMS??

[AzzidReign]

Ok, nevermind about the TMS edits. I'll post mine later but mine might be different since I have a custom skin.

But does anyone know the query line to run if I wanted to change everyone's options so that it's set to -5 to hide the post? Everyone's is set at 0 right now and it's annoying to have to tell everyone to set their's up to -5 since not everyone looks at announcements anyways.

Secondly, I noticed that when the post is collapsed...the area just goes blank. Has anyone edited the code so that it will minimize the post like it does on Digg? That would be absolutely ideal b/c my users are freaking out b/c they don't know why their posts are "blank". If they see it collapsed they would get the idea more so...

[VADOS]

Originally Posted by maidos

thanks paul for taking over, if u release a stable version i will make sure to donate

Yeah, I'll support that too!

But it will be cool to repair all the bugs and integrate it with reputation system, then it will be MOTM 100%!

And any chances to run that mod on 3.6.11 or I can upgrade to 3.7.x already?

P.S. - what's the news of this mod? Paul, talk to us