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.

[Verionia]

Followed everything on the threads, but still doesn't work and show on ANY forum. Will disable until next update.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Verionia

Followed everything on the threads, but still doesn't work and show on ANY forum. Will disable until next update.

Have you enabled it in any forum?

[Verionia]

Originally Posted by Ted S

Have you enabled it in any forum?

Yes I have through the bulk and forum. See PM

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Verionia

Yes I have through the bulk and forum. See PM

Have you modified your postbit or postbit_legacy templates?

[Verionia]

Originally Posted by Ted S

Have you modified your postbit or postbit_legacy templates?

Yes, this is my postbit_legacy code:

PHP Code:

<vb:if condition="$post['signature']">
                        <blockquote class="signature restore"><div class="signaturecontainer">{vb:raw post.signature}</div></blockquote>
                    {vb:raw template_hook.postbit_signature_end}
                </vb:if>
                                        {vb:raw template_hook.postbit_signature_end}
            </div>
            </vb:if>
{vb:raw helpful_answers}
            <div class="cleardiv"></div>
        </div>
    </div> 


[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Verionia

Yes, this is my postbit_legacy code:

PHP Code:

<vb:if condition="$post['signature']">
                        <blockquote class="signature restore"><div class="signaturecontainer">{vb:raw post.signature}</div></blockquote>
                    {vb:raw template_hook.postbit_signature_end}
                </vb:if>
                                        {vb:raw template_hook.postbit_signature_end}
            </div>
            </vb:if>
{vb:raw helpful_answers}
            <div class="cleardiv"></div>
        </div>
    </div> 


You will need to compare against the original template to be sure all of the template_hook calls remain in place. This addon uses postbit_messagearea_start

[CvP]

Originally Posted by Sparky McSmith

Is there a way to make a post collapse (be somewhat hidden) when it receives are certain number of negative ratings?

Can this be done with this mod?

Hi Ted S.

same question.

Need it for 4.0.2 and 3.8, both

[pete_brady]

option to hide low ranked posts would be great - users are really missing the old Post Ranking mod since the upgrade to vb4

[Greight]

Originally Posted by Greight

First thanks again for this nice mod, then can you please add a function so that the user can cancel his vote?

Any luck?

[Hikikomori]

You would have to modify the addon to do this.

Would this be difficult to do? Is there a simple if statement or something similar I can add to the plugin code? Thanks.