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.

[sadiq6210]

great, thanks

[vivamexico55]

Just confirming it seems to work ok in 4.02, nothing has broken for me yet

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by vivamexico55

Just confirming it seems to work ok in 4.02, nothing has broken for me yet

4.0.2 is a minor release which rarely impacts addons.

[Honk0815]

It is not compatible with vb 4.0.2?!
My button in the posts is no longer there

o sry my Mistake.. i forget manual template edit

It works fine

[chris1979]

I'm finding this really confusing. It's a great idea but I am not having much luck with it so far.

The first thing is this 2.1.7 version says it's for vb4 but it also says to include "$helpful_answers" into the postbit template. $helpful_answers just shows as $helpful_answers - no substitution happens. Is that the right code? It looks 3.x style rather than 4.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by chris1979

I'm finding this really confusing. It's a great idea but I am not having much luck with it so far.

The first thing is this 2.1.7 version says it's for vb4 but it also says to include "$helpful_answers" into the postbit template. $helpful_answers just shows as $helpful_answers - no substitution happens. Is that the right code? It looks 3.x style rather than 4.

I'm not sure where you saw that instruction as that;s from the vb 3.8 version of the mod. You don't need to add anything to your templates unless you want to move this around -- the addon will automatically place everything right into the post once you enable it in a forum.

[Pro-eSports.com]

Would be cool if you could replace the text bit in the post and just display it like:

3 (thump up icon) 6 (thumb down icon)

That would be what I'm looking for.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Pro-eSports.com

Would be cool if you could replace the text bit in the post and just display it like:

3 (thump up icon) 6 (thumb down icon)

That would be what I'm looking for.

It's a template, you can make it look just about however you want.

[Pro-eSports.com]

I'll install it later then and try to edit this part. Do you know the exact template name? I'm new to vB so I'm still getting used to all of this stuff. :P

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Pro-eSports.com

I'll install it later then and try to edit this part. Do you know the exact template name? I'm new to vB so I'm still getting used to all of this stuff. :P

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