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 granted liking by ALL the members of your forum.
The hack has been tested VERY well, including 5 weeks of beta testing, but I'm only human I can't guaranty there are no problems.
There is a similar hack called 'Automatic Thank You Hack'. That hack only lets you thank the first post of a thread and not just any post. The options in this hack doesn't compare to my hack. It's also unsupportive and was release for an older version of vBulletin.
Features:
Comes with easy installer/updater/uninstaller file
Places an easy to use button next to the edit button
Separate looks for postbit and postbit_legacy
Places all Thank Yous into one small box
[NEW]Uses only ONE query every time you view a showthread page!
Users can't thank twice
Users can't thank their own post
Guests don't see 'thanks' button
Counts how many thanks a user gives
Counts how many thanks a post gets
Shows how many thanks a user gave in every post of his
Shows how many thanks a user gave in profile
Shows how many thanks a user got
Shows how many posts or a user are thanked
Shows info in profile
Search for a users thanked posts
Search for all thanked posts
Administrator can remove all Thank Yous from a single post
Turn on and off hack
Turn on and off hack for only some forums
Option to turn off hack for all but the first post of a thread
Option to turn off hack for all but the first post of a thread in specific forums
Option to turn off hack view of date for specific or all forums
[NEW]Option to add to post count when someone clicks 'thanks'.
[NEW]Option to give a user who receives thanks reputation points.
Ban Usergroups
Ban Users
Update Counters in ACP (found in 'Import & Maintenance')
Uses Phrases
Guaranteed to be liked by ALL users on your forum!
Installation information on hack:
Files edited: 3
Templates edited: 4
New Phrases: 44 (installer installs them)
New Templates: 2 (installer installs them)
Queries: 15 excluding phase and template queries (installer installs it)
Files to upload: 4
Time to install: between 5-10 minutes
Updates:
Version 1.0 (12/28/04):
Release
Version 1.01 (1/10/05):
[FIX]Templates stay when you upgrade your forum
Version 1.02 (2/22/05):
[NEW]Installer Has Installer for After You Upgrade Your Forum
[NEW]Search for a users thanked posts
[NEW]Search for all thanked posts
Version 1.03 (2/23/05):
[FIX]Turn hack on for only first posts of threads now works
Version 1.10 (5/9/05):
[FIX]Compatibility for vBulletin 3.0.7
[FIX]Reduced the amount of queries need to run this hack every time you view a showthread page to only ONE query. No more 1 to 2 queries per post that comes up.
[FIX]I cached the templates used to save 1 query.
[NEW]Option to add to post count when someone clicks 'thanks'.
[NEW]Option to give a user who receives thanks reputation points.
Please post your comments or suggestions for this hack. I read ALL posts.
MAKE SURE YOU CLICK INSTALL! You will get an email when a new version is released.
Pictures:
Showing the 'thanks' button
Showing post after 'thanks' (admin view)
Showing post after 'thanks' with legacy posts (admin view)
Stats in member?s profile
Hacks settings
Update counts view
I'll try to get some updated pictures up soon.
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Well I am happy to say that I worked through it on my own.
What I had to do was gather every Post thank you hack I had (4) starting from v.02
and did an install uninstall in backwards order.
In the end I found the bots of code that were plaguing my forums in some of the
earlier versions, when I was finished I took a deep breath and installed v 1.03 fresh.
I thought the installed was botched when I went out to my AdminCP /forum manager
and couldn't find the Post thank you hack controls there, but just before I was going
to strip everything off I thought I should through a peek in the vb control settings.
and there I found the >new< Post Thank You Hack settings
So now after some quick testing everything seems to work properly now.
I do kind of miss the individual forum controls though instead of the new system
with forum ID's.
Hi John. Sadly I don't think this hack is being supported anymore My question has been sitting there for several days now (as of this post) with no response Regarding your question, don't you have backups of before you installed the hack? If not, then I would work backwards and make sure that everything is removed from the install. For example; if it says "add xxx after yyy" then make sure that xxx is no longer in your code...
Sorry, I was away for Passover. I hope in the next few days to look into this problem. There seems to be a few problems with 3.0.7 and I hope to have them all figured out. I only work on my hacks in my free time and hope to clear some time for it in the next few days.
Well I am happy to say that I worked through it on my own.
What I had to do was gather every Post thank you hack I had (4) starting from v.02
and did an install uninstall in backwards order.
In the end I found the bots of code that were plaguing my forums in some of the
earlier versions, when I was finished I took a deep breath and installed v 1.03 fresh.
I thought the installed was botched when I went out to my AdminCP /forum manager
and couldn't find the Post thank you hack controls there, but just before I was going
to strip everything off I thought I should through a peek in the vb control settings.
and there I found the >new< Post Thank You Hack settings
So now after some quick testing everything seems to work properly now.
I do kind of miss the individual forum controls though instead of the new system
with forum ID's.
To bad there is no more support on this hack
Like i said it my first post, I'm still supporting it. I changed the vb version to 3.0.6 until I sort out a few things.
thank you for staying with it. We need more people to stick with the hacks
around here some potentially greats mods go south due to loss of interest
or suppport :9
My options dont show up when going to AdminCP>VB Options>Thank You Hack>
The only options there are to save or reset
And as I aint got the options in the Admin CP yet, I am able to limit this hack to only certain forums?? Also is there anyway for the thanks to be added in just 1 thank you at the bottom of the 1st post, again dunno if all this is in the options as I cant get in to see them
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05-01-2005, 04:31 PM
