About this hack:
One of the biggest problems on forums as you may know is 'posts boosting'. There are users who LOVE to say 'thanks' when ever they can. How can it hurt? Their post count goes up, they have nothing to loose.
There are also users who really like to express their thanks to post but don't like posting a post that looks like they're post boosting.
Then comes the moderators who have to delete people's thanks yous so a thread can look readable with out the thanks yous thrown around.
Finally comes the posters of these useful posts. They have no idea how many people really likes their posts if only some people say 'thanks'.
What this hack does is fix ALL these problems - except those users who like post boosting. This places a button called 'thanks.' When a user clicks on it, it places his username in a box right under the post saying that so-and-so says 'thanks' for the post. Every-one who clicks is placed in one box.
By giving your users the extra feature, you forum will look allot nice and organized. It is a guaranteed liking by ALL the members of your forum.
New option: Remove User's Thanks Count When Deleting Post
New phrase: post_thanks_search_user_gave
FIX User reputation level now updates. (Thanks to liwo for this one.)
NEW Added option to view all posts a user has thanked.
FIX Fixed Special Action - Delete All of a Users Thanks
FIX Should have fixed some 'foreach()' errors.
Version 7.3 (03/15/08):
Updated file: functions_post_thanks.php
Updated template: post_thanks_memberinfo_block
Deleted template: post_thanks_memberinfo_css
New option: Choice to use Markup Usernames or not. (Thanks to Namaless)
New option: Ban User from Getting Thanks
New option: Max Thanks a User can Give Per Day
FIX Fixed repeating bug on vb 3.6.7 forums.
CHANGE Changed where the post thanks info shows on the Profile Page. Moved to same box as statistics. (This will require a template edit if you are running vb3.7 beta 2-4)
Version 7.4 (03/21/08):
FIX: Fixed Profile Stats for vb3.7.0 RC1 users.
Please post your comments or suggestions for this hack. I read ALL posts.
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Pictures:
Showing the 'thanks' button and stats in Postbit
Showing post after 'thanks' (user view)
Showing post after 'thanks' with legacy posts (admin view)
an idea, for consideration: allowing an option to sort threads (aside from stickies) by number of thanks. this would allow the mod to become sort of like the idea behind digg.com, but internalized for your own community.
Nice idea but thanks are given per post and not per thread.
For some reason vb3.6 wont import the xml document. Any suggestions?
I have the same problem. I moved the file to where it should be (post_thanks.gif), then went to install the product like the instructions said and got an "No file uploaded and no local file found." of which it didn't import the xml file.
Any solutions or suggestions? should we be performing the postbit changes first then import the xml?
an idea, for consideration: allowing an option to sort threads (aside from stickies) by number of thanks. this would allow the mod to become sort of like the idea behind digg.com, but internalized for your own community.
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Originally Posted by Abe1
Nice idea but thanks are given per post and not per thread.
there is an option to turn off thanks for all but the first post, right? that essentially makes it a thanks per thread.
i am probably going to work on getting a "internal digg" vb extension put together. if any coders are interested in doing this, please PM me (i'm happy to pay and share mod here at vb.org ).
So far, my only concern is that doing the search for messages with "thanks" takes a long time on my forum: around 45 seconds. Our forum has around 45,000 posts on it. Is there any way that the search time can be made more reasonable?
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08-27-2006, 12:18 AM
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