Add-On Releases - [AJAX] Helpful Answers - Allow users to rate individual posts

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 (AJAX) to rate individual posts as either helpful or not allowing future visitors to understand the benefits of each post.

Designed for maximum flexibility:



This addon is built to be flexible and offers several customization options including:

• The ability to use image or text ratings.
• The ability to offer yes/no or scaled 1-10 point ranking.
• The ability to turn off negative ratings for a positive only system.
• The ability to decide which forums are open for helpful answer ratings.
• The ability to audit the system and identify top users and potential abusers.
• The ability to ban specific members from using the system.
• The ability to customize the AJAX message shown after a post is rated.
• The ability to edit all text and messages through phrases.
• The ability to show a page with the top helpful posts.
• The ability to show rating stats on a user's profile.
• Integration with the reputation system for ratings.
• Template driven display that can easily be customized to 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:
This addon requires uploading multiple files, installing a vBulletin product and enabling the feature in any forums you wish. No template modifications are required. Please see the included install file for detailed instructions.

If you are not seeing the rating bar double check that you have enabled the feature in the forum you are in and insure the Manual Template override option is not enabled.

Rating Review & Deletion:
To identify and remove abuse a reporting system is included with this addon and can be found in your vBulletin ACP under the Helpful Answers tab. Through this panel you will be able to view a user's overall rating history and individual ratings and can remove either if necessary. Users can also be explicitly banned from the system.

Reputation System Integration:
Helpful Answers can be extended to directly tie into your reputation system giving users positive or negative points based on the ratings of their posts. There are numerous options on how to handle ratings that can be found in a separate Helpful Answers Reputation part of your vBulletin Settings page.

Anonymous Stats Tracking (optional):
vBulletin forums reach millions of consumers around the world yet little is known about their habits and opinions. This addon was released to the public out of requests but also to further the research of forum user's behaviors and actions through collecting the most basic data on thousands of sites.

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.

While you may disable this feature through the administrative options I ask that you consider leaving it in place to help this research effort and insure the continued support of the addon.

The tracking feature uses the php library cURL on a 5 second timeout. If cURL is not installed this option is automatically disabled.

History of this addon:

This addon was originally developed for private use in 2006 for a site of mine but after getting several past clients requested requests and messages I decided to package it up for public release.

[mariocaz]

uufff but where I will see the variable ???

If I click in the edit then I see all the templates.... postbit, header, navbar, etc.

and I don´t know where to see the variable you are talking about, I am there.

I can give you access to my ACP.

[mariocaz]

I think Ted if you tell me what is the variable that I have to put under $template_hook[postbit_controls] I could fix my problem, I don´t know which one is the other variable your are telling me, because I don´t see the option in the ACP that you told me and I looked in all the options, I am a little desperate, because my users are confusend with the thank you mod and yours because the position of the buttons.

Like I told you if it will be mor easy I can give you totally ACP access, just tell me.

Or tell me the exactly instructions to edit my postbit and I will do it.

Really thank you so much my friend for all your awesome help and of course your patience!!

Cheers,

Mario

[mariocaz]

I did it Ted!!!

I enable the manual edit in the ACP, I didn´t know that you refer to this option, sorry.

Now please tell me how my users will see the helpful post please ??

[mariocaz]

Ok Ted, Finally I get the button in the correct place.

But I don´t know and I re-read all your explanation of your mod and I don´t know if my users could see with a link or something all the helpful posts in X time (like the new posts) of the forum ???? or only this is for the administrator ?

Please tell me Ted, I think that you are thinking that I stupid jejeje, sorry if yes.

Thanx!!

Mario

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by mariocaz

But I don?t know and I re-read all your explanation of your mod and I don?t know if my users could see with a link or something all the helpful posts in X time (like the new posts) of the forum ???? or only this is for the administrator ?

I have no idea what you're looking to do. Please rephrase your question.

[mariocaz]

Ok jeje sorry Ted!!!

The users could see the Helpful posts like this ??

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachmen...7&d=1233711334

Or how the user could know the helpful posts of my forum ?? only entering to the threads and see which posts are helpful ??

I hope this time yes you understand me, sorry again.

[Ted S]

You would have to extend the addon to bring that functionality into the front-end. This addon does not do this.

[mariocaz]

So it is only for the administrators (staff) ?

[mariocaz]

Or how can I extend theaddon to bring that functionaluty into the front-end ?

Thanx Ted !!

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by mariocaz

Or how can I extend theaddon to bring that functionaluty into the front-end ?

Thanx Ted !!

You would have to replicate the functionality as you see fit by coding it in a new script.