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.

[TheLastSuperman]

Originally Posted by postcd

I need plugin which will allow sorting of replies according to rating. the best are on top in thread view. Anyone know plugin which will do this?

Can you explain this more? The way I see it is, you're rating individual posts... so if you distort the display order would the conversation/topic at hand not be thrown all out of whack i.e. the post order would be off so when read top to bottom or vice-versa depending on your settings it might not make sense... that's just my thought on it. I do see your point about wanting the most helpful answers at the top, naturally it's quick to find the solution. Perhaps a "This is the correct answer" option "image overlay" on the post an admin deems as such would be best in a situation like this.

[ozzy47]

Yeah throwing a thread out of whack would just seem like a giant PITA to me. I would go with something like Mike posted above.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by postcd

I need plugin which will allow sorting of replies according to rating. the best are on top in thread view. Anyone know plugin which will do this?

That's an option in this addon although you'll want to go further than just enabling it and insure replies are answers, not discussions (best if you have a comment option below reply).

Keep in mind it's a global setting so if you use it in one forum, it will apply anywhere HA is used.

[Bubble #5]

4.2.1

postbit legacy

Does anyone know how to add the "did you find..." sentence in the lower right hand side of the post? No matter where I put the code it always floats to the upper right hand side. I think maybe I need to add something like a div around the code? Thoughts?

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Bubble #5

4.2.1

postbit legacy

Does anyone know how to add the "did you find..." sentence in the lower right hand side of the post? No matter where I put the code it always floats to the upper right hand side. I think maybe I need to add something like a div around the code? Thoughts?

The bit floats... try forcing it around another div.

[postcd]

Hi,

question1: if i delete user and all his posts, will be also his Helpfull answers points he added to other members posts deleted?

question2: what value to add to hide posts with 2 and more negative votes? in "Hide Negative Posts - Count"? .... 0 hides 1+ negatives

question3: are hidden posts visible to google bot / indexable?

idea1: Please allow setting different value for "Hide Negative Posts - Count" and Hide Negative Thread - Count"

idea2: This Mod dont show up on my forum after install, i needed to bulk enable it from main menu: Administration /
Helpful Answers System / Bulk Forum Enabler. It should be noted in first post of this topic... I almost did not found it.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by postcd

question1: if i delete user and all his posts, will be also his Helpfull answers points he added to other members posts deleted?

No. His or her posts have nothing to do with his or her posts any more than they have to do with his or her profile, blog comments, etc

Originally Posted by postcd

question2: what value to add to hide posts with 2 and more negative votes? in "Hide Negative Posts - Count"? .... 0 hides 1+ negatives

2

Originally Posted by postcd

question3: are hidden posts visible to google bot / indexable?

The addon sets the div as hidden using inline css which engines are likely to pick up on. Whether the follow it or not I don't know.

[quote=postcd;2452165]idea1: Please allow setting different value for "Hide Negative Posts - Count" and Hide Negative Thread - Count"

- Thanks for the idea!

Originally Posted by postcd

idea2: This Mod dont show up on my forum after install, i needed to bulk enable it from main menu: Administration /
Helpful Answers System / Bulk Forum Enabler. It should be noted in first post of this topic... I almost did not found it.

It's noted in bold, larger text that's colored red in the main post and again in the install guide. Twice.

[postcd]

q1: how then admin can bulk delete users votes? What if user signup just to bulk fake votes. When i delete seome member i usually want all traces be deleted, so i think it should delete also his Answers.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by postcd

q1: how then admin can bulk delete users votes? What if user signup just to bulk fake votes. When i delete seome member i usually want all traces be deleted, so i think it should delete also his Answers.

There's a bulk management tool in the admin.

[postcd]

Originally Posted by Ted S

2

In my case 1 and also 2 hides all posts, even first post. posts which are even non negative rated. I think its a bug and only negative posts should not be visible..?

Originally Posted by Ted S

There's a bulk management tool in the admin.

You probably mean "Helpful Answer Statistics" accessible from main vbulletin admin menu (http://internetlifeforum.com/admincp...fulanswers.php).