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.

[sticky]

This is probably my favorite mod but there is one thing that would make it perfect for me.

Is there any way to exempt certain usergroups from restrictions? Such as, allow admins and mods to rate as many posts as they want but not regular users?

[sticky]

Originally Posted by wesooby

Hello!

First - THANK YOU so MUCH for this AWESOME Add On!!

I have someone helping me try to modify it a bit, but we can't quite get it. What we want to do is to tie the Helpful hack with uCash
: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=227910

So, when someone says a post is Helpful, then they get some uCash.

The person who is helping us tried for a few hours... and he says he can't figure it out. He said "I can't find the door..." If you could give us any clues or direction... that would be SO appreciated!

THANKS!!

I'm using it with Ucash, no problems.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Rafa-el

Problems with this two variables:
{vb:raw post.rate_helpfulanswer} - True if the user can rate the post (false if they are banned or have rated it).
{vb:raw post.helpfulanswerid} - True if the user has already rated the post.

Not showing up using the 10 point scale.

The 10 point scale will have less variables and functions than the rollover option. However, both of thsoe variables are global to the addon, how are you using them?

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by kmohamed

i am sorry is working i only have to enable it from the forum setting i am sorry ..
please if you have a chance
***i have a back-up for my data in vb3 do you know if i am able to pull up the old data for your mod and put it in vb4? how? plz

The mod will port from 3.8 to 4.0 provided that you were using a current version. If it does not port be sure you kept the tables in place for your upgrade.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by wesooby

Hello!

First - THANK YOU so MUCH for this AWESOME Add On!!

I have someone helping me try to modify it a bit, but we can't quite get it. What we want to do is to tie the Helpful hack with uCash
: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=227910

So, when someone says a post is Helpful, then they get some uCash.

The person who is helping us tried for a few hours... and he says he can't figure it out. He said "I can't find the door..." If you could give us any clues or direction... that would be SO appreciated!

THANKS!!

Thanks for post. At this time I do not provide support for integrating other mods unless I have used them extensively, however if there are additional hooks or variables needed to make another mod work let me know and I would be happy to update mine to meet those needs as best possible.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by sticky

This is probably my favorite mod but there is one thing that would make it perfect for me.

Is there any way to exempt certain usergroups from restrictions? Such as, allow admins and mods to rate as many posts as they want but not regular users?

There is no limit on voting at this point although it's a nice idea. If others express interest I'd be glad to look at adding this for an update.

[FractalizeR]

Originally Posted by Ted S

There is no limit on voting at this point although it's a nice idea. If others express interest I'd be glad to look at adding this for an update.

I think I'll vote for that. You see, a potential abuser can create fake login and downvote many-many threads until banned. I would like to have per-usergroup restriction. It would be also good to have this restriction dependable on the time passed since user is registered.

[fluidswork]

will give it a try .............

[Ted S]

Helpful Answers users - by popular request I have added a new optional feature to let you hide posts that are negatively rated (you set how negative). Hiding is done via ajax so users can easily open/ close the post. This can be found in 2.3.0 beta.

The display for this feature can be customized by editing the template 'helpful_answers_hidelowstart' where you can change the column color, border, etc as desired.

Check out an example of two hidden posts attached.

Note: Because negative posts will always be hidden with a thread is loaded, the cookie system will not be able to override this like on the forum homepage or other collapse boxes.

[dihuta]

Great!
I love this mod much! Waiting for Blog and CMS.