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)
Version 7.4 (03/21/08):
FIX: Fixed Profile Stats for vb3.7.0 RC1 users.
Please post your comments or suggestions for this hack. I read ALL posts.
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Pictures:
Showing the 'thanks' button and stats in Postbit
Showing post after 'thanks' (user view)
Showing post after 'thanks' with legacy posts (admin view)
post vB 3.6.1 upgrade, i am receiving this message atop my forums when a user clicks Find All Thanked Posts from within the navbar search and/or memberinfo...
I upgraded today and am seeing the same error. Was this ever resolved?
Love this hack but I think someone already mentioned, it would be great to have the AJAX dealt with via a cached JS file as opposed to having all the code inline for each post, it adds a very substantial amount of extra code to the source.
I'm using this along with post groan and it's currently very easy to vote both on the same post just by clicking on one button then the other before the AJAX updates the button status. Is there any easy way to prevent this?
I'm using this along with post groan and it's currently very easy to vote both on the same post just by clicking on one button then the other before the AJAX updates the button status. Is there any easy way to prevent this?
Turn off the option to not allow users to thank and groan.
I think I mentioned this before on the previous version's thread but I would love to see an addon to this hack with the ability to add a new column to FORUMDISPLAY next to "Replies" and "Views" that showed the number of "Thanks" that each thread has. Perhaps have it display a periodically cached value or something to reduce server loads if that would be an issue.
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09-23-2006, 08:11 PM
but I think someone already mentioned, it would be great to have the AJAX dealt with via a cached JS file as opposed to having all the code inline for each post, it adds a very substantial amount of extra code to the source.
