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Post Ranking System · **Released**: 01-31-2009

Post Ranking System
by FullyTested

This product does not modify any VB MySQL tables and thus can be used by all forums regardless of whether they have three thousand posts or three million posts in their database.
Also, no manual template edits.

In A Nutshell:

This product provides the ability to track the quality of post contributions made by your registered members.
Each member's rank totals may be displayed (and are searchable) via the postbit template and/or public profile page.
Each post may be ranked 'up' (+1 point) or 'down' (-1 point) by your registered members. Each member may only do this once per post.
This is done via AJAX if the viewer's browser has JavaScript enabled, or via a link, if not.
Once a post has reached a certain point threshold (value is set via AdminCP), it's rank changes accordingly.
All posts start as 'Neutral'.
Positively ranked posts may have their rank changed to 'Highly Ranked' or 'Highest Ranked'.
Negatively ranked posts may have their rank changed to 'Lowly Ranked' or 'Lowest Ranked'.
Whenever a post has its rank changed, the post creator has his/her rank totals updated accordingly.

Available Options:

Rank threshold values may be changed at any time., Rank totals are then updated accordingly.
Each rank can have it's own text colour.
Each user has the option to have 'Lowest' ranked posts hidden in a collapsed state (same as the ignore postbit). This option is turned on via the User CP thread display options.
Each user has the option to have 'Highest' ranked posts highlighted to destinguish them from the rest of the posts in the thread. This option is turned on via the User CP thread display options.
Ability to globally force the above highlighted/hidden posts on all users.
Option to have extremely lowly ranked posts auto 'soft' deleted. If post is subsequently undeleted, it's rank will revert to 'Neutral'.
Ability to email mods upon auto deletion of a post.
Selection of usergroups that may not rank posts.
Selection of usergroups who's posts cannot be ranked.
Exclude specific forums from post ranking.
Ability to include/exclude rank name ('Highest Ranked') in postbit
Ability to include/exclude rank score (+10/-5) in postbit
Display user's post rank totals within the postbit template.
Display user's post rank totals within the public profile page.
Search for posts of a certain rank, which belong to a specific member, via the postbit or public profile page.
Display total count, and search for, posts of a certain rank via the 'Post Ranking System' menu in AdminCP.
Manage votes by User or Post via Admin CP.
Statistics page where top posts and top posters are displayed. This page may be limited certain usergroups.
Ability to set a cut-off date (in days). Posts older than x number of days cannot be ranked.

Accountable Actions

Post delete (soft and physical) // rank totals decrement
Post undelete // rank totals increment
Post mergers // rank totals decrement as post may no longer reflect original content on which it was ranked
Thread delete (soft and physical) // rank totals decrement
Thread undelete // rank totals increment
User mergers // ranks transferred to new user
User delete // voted upon post ranks updated., tables cleared of said user

To Install:
Please see the 'ReadMe' file for installation instructions.
Installing this mod should take no longer than 5 minutes.

Version 2.5
Fixed small bug with the stats page.
Added the ability to have the score and rank images display in a separate line when default setting is to not have the thread title in every post.
The following files have changed:
- postrankstats.php (please re-FTP to your server)
- product_postrank.xml (please re-import with 'Allow Overwrite' selected)

FullyTested · #**172** 03-03-2009, 02:36 PM

Version 2.0
Fixed a few bugs and added the following features:
- Manage votes by User or Post via Admin CP
- Auto hide (collapse) now has multi-quote and quick-reply buttons
- If no highlighting colour is specified, that colour is now skipped
- You may now choose if to allow users to rank their own posts
- You may now force post highlighting and/or hiding upon Unregistered users
- Added a top 10 statistics page a link to which is placed at the bottom of the Quick Links drop down menu

UPGRADING:

It is highly recommended you Un-install and then Re-install the product.
Please follow the ReadMe instructions and re-FTP all files to your server.

zglows · #**173** 03-03-2009, 02:48 PM

Wow 2.0! What an update, this mod keeps getting better and better.

Teresa · #**174** 03-03-2009, 04:05 PM

I won't lose my current votes by uninstalling, will I?
Thanks!

Teresa · #**175** 03-03-2009, 04:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Teresa

I won't lose my current votes by uninstalling, will I?
Thanks!

Or my phrase changes?

DobieGillis? · #**176** 03-03-2009, 04:27 PM

interesting Mod, well done!

FullyTested · #**177** 03-03-2009, 04:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Teresa

I won't lose my current votes by uninstalling, will I?
Thanks!

You will.
You don't have to uninstall but is recommended if one has changed the 'Abysmal Rank' (auto delete) settings.

Teresa · #**178** 03-03-2009, 04:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by FullyTested

You will.
You don't have to uninstall but is recommended if one has changed the 'Abysmal Rank' (auto delete) settings.

Oh good. I didn't change that, so hopefully, I can do a normal upgrade. Thanks.

FullyTested · #**179** 03-03-2009, 04:57 PM

Teresa, you still need to re-upload all the files (not images) to your server.

vbboarder · #**180** 03-03-2009, 05:17 PM

Thanks for the update.

Bugs Report:
#1: The option to search users who have voted up/down X% of the time still does not work in version 2.0, but the warning message is gone now. When specified either voted up or voted down, no results were given: I verified the entries in the postrankedby table so there should have been some results for the query.

#2: The statistics page works and looks awesome! However, there's 2 minor bugs relating to the Display Stats in Navbar Link. It should be hooked to parse_templates so that the link shows up in non-forum pages, and sessionurl should be used instead of sessionurl_q since you have the '?' query character in the url.

#3: Clicking on the "# rank" link still does not change it to "+upvote / -downvote" in IE7 (works fine in FF3).

#4: There are no date or version number for the templates so VB may not be notifying users that templates need to be reverted when updating. Can you include these info in your templates xml so that we'll know if templates need to be reverted?

Feature Request: Provide an option to force only unregistered users for post highlighting and post hiding. I don't want to force members since they can specify their own settings, but I want to force guests since they don't have their own settings.

inciarco · #**181** 03-03-2009, 08:31 PM

Fantastic Update FullyTested, Thank You Very Much For Sharin It. :up::up::up:

I Voted For This Mod For this Month's MOTM.

All Features Working Fine So Far On My Tests. :up:

Only One Observation (Little Bug), and it's that on Internet Explorer 6 (I don't know if on other Higher Versions Too), the "+ X rank" Link don't Change to the "+Y / -Z" Text, but on FireFox and on Chrome it does.

My Best Regards.

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