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)
Added securty token check for all thanks added. This will prevent a user from giving out a link or somehow making an image that will get him a lot of thanks.
Should have fixed some 'foreach()' errors.
Fixed Delete All of a Users Thanks bug
vBulletin 3.7.x compatible only
Version 7.6 (06/02/08):
FIX: Fixed Security Check for vb 3.7.1
Updated files: functions_post_thanks.php
Version 7.7 (07/28/08):
FIX: Fixed problem with giving thanks using Blazer (palmOS browser).
This isn't working for 3.8 - causes a strange error where if you thank once, it records twice.
If I uninstall then reinstall, will it delete the existing thanks count for members?
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Originally Posted by ETDC
This doesn't work in 3.8.3. If I leave thanks it records it as two people. When I remove my thanks, the 'thanks grid' along the postbit is stilll there and the 'mystery thanker's' thanks is still recorded (somewhere).
I can't even uninstall it
Quote:
Originally Posted by ETDC
I think it's safe to say this hack is broken in 3.8.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Chase
Is this stable with 3.8.3? I've been reading a lot of problems in here... I may just disable this until it's fixed.
It's working just fine for me with 3.83 (on two separate installations). If it's working for you, I don't see any reason to disable it.
I can't tell you why it's not working for some people, although I suspect some sort of conflict with another add-on and/or a custom style.
if sql query is run for update post counters will we loose the thanked post count ??
we use thank count to b added to post count as the option was available
Try searching for "secjurity token" here and at vbulletin.com. I recall that this was added to vB a while back and that several add-ons were affected by the change. There was a fix posted somewhere... just can't recall where now.
I got a small problem. I downloaded a template of my other forum and placed it on my new forum. But now i got in "Statistics" 2 Thank and 2 Groan blocks.
How do i delete them? I dont know in which file i cant find that so i can change it so i only got one.