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

Helpful Answers has been used to record over 6 MILLION times on more than 2,000 forums. If you're not using HA your users are looking for it!

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 to rate individual posts as either helpful or not allowing future visitors to understand the value of each post.

Designed to be flexible, HA has over 30 configurable settings:

• Use image or text ratings AJAX or traditional links.
• Offer yes/no or scaled 1-10 point ranking.
• Turn off negative ratings for a positive only system.
• Decide which forums are open for helpful answer ratings.
• Audit the system and identify top users and potential abusers.
• Ban specific members from using the system.
• Customize the message shown after a post is rated.
• Show a page with the top helpful posts.
• Show rating stats on a user's profile.
• Hide posts that rate "too low"
• Template driven so you can customize it all for 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 [Must Read]:

Step 1: Upload the addon files found in the upload/ folder to your forum directory
Step 2: Install the plugin through your vB Administration area
Step 3: Configure settings & enable the mod in individual forums

You must configure settings & enable forums before voting will show up.
Anonymous Stats Tracking (optional):

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. You can disable this through the admin.

Mod Philosophy -- Drive Your Own Success:

All of my mods are inspired by my work in digital marketing and are designed to drive registrations, interaction or other engagement activities the core platform does not address.

Each is designed to fit a general need by providing a starting point but it's on you to decide how to make things work to their best possible outcome. Feel free to suggest what you'd like to see next but don't wait to have what everyone else has; figure out what your forum needs and customize away.

[cloferba]

Originally Posted by Ted S

There is no need to repost your issue, I will respond as soon as I have additional information and time to do so. Reposting simply makes responses take longer.

for me not recieve a reply could be you didnt saw my post.
thanks

[Verionia]

Hi can this mod allow posters to leave their own reviews with each post? In the corner of the post would be the star rating which they left.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Verionia

Hi can this mod allow posters to leave their own reviews with each post? In the corner of the post would be the star rating which they left.

This mod already lets them leave their own raiting of each post...

[Alien]

I may have missed the answer, but I was curious if this was fully phrased. So I could use this on a site with a primary focus on making people laugh. Can we have this show "Funny Answers"? "Did you find this post funny?" etc.? Will that be easy enough?

[Ted S]

Yes it is.

[Alien]

Excellent, thanks so much for the rapid response Ted!

[ShadowStalker]

While I love this add-on, some of my users have complained that they accidentally clicked helpful when it wasn't and they couldn't undo what they clicked

[Verionia]

Originally Posted by Ted S

This mod already lets them leave their own raiting of each post...

With stars on top of each post to show what each user rated it?

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Verionia

With stars on top of each post to show what each user rated it?

Each user? No. The user who is viewing it, yes. Just enabe the 10 point voting scale and add your star images for values 1-5.

[TimberFloorAu]

Just checking error logs, we are getting hundreds of error messages:

Such as:

Database error in vBulletin 4.0.1:

Invalid SQL:

               SELECT post.postid,post.title as posttile,helpfulpost.goodrank,helpfulpost.totalrank,helpfulpost.lastvote,
                       thread.threadid,thread.title as title,thread.postusername as postusername,forum.title as ftitle ,goodrank as avgrank

               FROM yobromofhelpfulpost as helpfulpost
               INNER JOIN yobromofpost AS post ON(helpfulpost.postid = post.postid)
               INNER JOIN yobromofthread AS thread ON(post.threadid = thread.threadid)
               INNER JOIN yobromofforum AS forum ON(thread.forumid = forum.forumid)
               WHERE goodrank > 0


               ORDER BY avgrank desc
               LIMIT 0, 25;

MySQL Error   : Column 'goodrank' in field list is ambiguous
Error Number  : 1052
Request Date  : Friday, February 5th 2010 @ 10:04:32 AM
Error Date    : Friday, February 5th 2010 @ 10:04:32 AM
Script        : http://www.yobromofo.com/forum/helpfulanswers.php
Referrer      :
IP Address    : 67.195.112.247
Username      : Unregistered
Classname     : vB_Database
MySQL Version :