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.

[TimberFloorAu]

Yes Bouncer.

In the forums and moderators.

Click a forum.

At very bottom, there is a tick box. Allow Helpful Answers

[struff]

Originally Posted by Ted S

Can you please explain more? Please also provide your settings (if you have changed any options).

I am just using the default options of this product and using the default vB4 style.

I think someone else reported the same issue early on. But anyway, it starts off ok but then as you'll see by the screenshots, each post adds another Helpful line.

Thanks.

[Hateman]

It is possible to activate this mod for each forum via sql-query?

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Hateman

It is possible to activate this mod for each forum via sql-query?

This mod is built to work per-forum only.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by struff

I am just using the default options of this product and using the default vB4 style.

I think someone else reported the same issue early on. But anyway, it starts off ok but then as you'll see by the screenshots, each post adds another Helpful line.

Thanks.

What other modifications are you using? What are you settings for this modification?

[Ted S]

1. Disable the reporting option via your admin.

2. Not sure what the arrows are intended to show. If there's no title for the post it just shows the ID.

[Honk0815]

HEllo,

when i use helpfulanswers.php i become an SQL error

MySQL-Fehler : Column 'goodrank' in where clause is ambiguous
Fehler-Nr. : 1052

[Ted S]

Version 2.1.7 has been released.

This is a very minor bug fix release which addresses an issue where some users get an SQL error viewing helpfulanswers.php

To update just upload the file upload/helpfulanswers.php

Users not showing this error do not need to upgrade.

[Honk0815]

Thanks Ted, its working fine

[SurfTalk]

Hiya, Just installed this today, looks like the answer to my wish list! But I can't get it to work.....I've followed the install instructions, enabled the 10 point ranking on the forum. Under the post i have the clickable 1 to 10 scale, but when selecting a rating I get the following error message, "Fatal error: Call to undefined function can_administer() in ......(path) to helpfulanswers.php on line 28" Do you know what I've done wrong? Thanks for your help!