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.

[FractalizeR]

Localization bugs found and fixed:

helpful_statsbit_ten and helpful_statsbit should be fully phrased. Add the following phrases:

<phrase name="helpfulanswer_helpfulansw" date="0" username="Ted S" version="1.3.1"><![CDATA[Helpful answers]]></phrase>
<phrase name="helpfulanswer_from" date="0" username="Ted S" version="1.3.1"><![CDATA[from]]></phrase>
<phrase name="helpfulanswer_times" date="0" username="Ted S" version="1.3.1"><![CDATA[times]]></phrase>
<phrase name="helpfulanswer_posts" date="0" username="Ted S" version="1.3.1"><![CDATA[posts]]></phrase>

and phrase template:

PHP Code:

        <template name="helpful_statsbit" templatetype="template" username="Ted S" version="2.1.0"><![CDATA[
        
            <h5 class="subsubsectionhead">{vb:rawphrase helpfulanswer_title}</h5>
            <div class="blockrow">
                <vb:if condition="$helpfulanswer_count">
                <dl class="stats">
                    <dt>{vb:rawphrase helpfulanswer_postsrated}</dt>
                    <dd>{vb:raw helpfulanswer_count} {vb:raw helpfulanswer_posts}</dd>
                </dl>
                </vb:if>
                <vb:if condition="$helpfulanswer_goodranks">
                <dl class="stats">
                    <dt>{vb:rawphrase helpfulanswer_postshavebeen}</dt>
                    <dd>{vb:raw helpfulanswer_helpfulansw} {vb:raw helpfulanswer_goodranks} {vb:raw helpfulanswer_from} {vb:raw helpfulanswer_totalranks} {vb:raw helpfulanswer_times}</dd>
                </dl>
                </vb:if>
            </div>
                
        ]]></template> 


[FractalizeR]

The only thing I lack now (and that prevent me from starting using this addon on main forum) is the possibility for moderation staff to view how and who rated specified thread + the ability to cancel specific / all voting on it. Also that would be good to have an ability to close specific thread to voting completely. Some "holy war" threads could be locked from the beginning this way.

[sticky]

Originally Posted by sticky

Is there any way to make this work with the "reputation user spread" option? It seems to not pay attention to it and allow someone to neg rep the same user multiple times.

Ted, would you be able to help with me with this please? I use helpful answers with the rep system but users are abusing the neg reps.

[vivamexico55]

Hi!

I just upgraded to 4.04 and the image to +1 is not showing, any idea why?

[vivamexico55]

Originally Posted by vivamexico55

Hi!

I just upgraded to 4.04 and the image to +1 is not showing, any idea why?

This is driving me crazy, I can see in the postbit that there's a line added when I enable the product and it goes away when I disable it, so something is happening, but the +1 image is not showing anymore.

Nothing actually changed besides updating the style, but I already uploaded the images to the new style. I've double checked that plugins are enabled, I re-ran the forum bulk enabler, I'm going crazy.

Anyone else upgraded to 4.04 and had this plugin disappear?

edit: When I say "+1 image" I mean the thumbs up, I disabled thumbs down

[FractalizeR]

Can you post HTML here? Are you using 10-point system?

[vivamexico55]

I'm using "Thumbs up/down" system. I can sure post HTML if it's not against the rules:

	<div class="posthead">
		<label for="post_imod_checkbox_598184">
		<span class="postdate old">
		
		<span class="date">Proximos Conciertos 2010, 12-nov-2009</span>
		
		</span>
		</label>
		<span class="nodecontrols">
		<!-- vBSkinworks Modification: Moved post control links from bottom left to top right -->
		
		
			<a title="Add Infraction for dball" href="infraction.php?do=report&amp;p=598184" rel="nofollow"><img src="images/custom/vuel/buttons/infraction.gif" alt="Add Infraction for dball" /></a>
		
		
			<a title="Reportar post" href="report.php?p=598184" rel="nofollow"><img src="images/custom/vuel/buttons/report.gif" alt="Reportar post" /></a>
		
		
		
			<a name="post598184" href="showthread.php?51405-Proximos-Conciertos-2010&amp;p=598184&amp;viewfull=1#post598184" class="postcounter">#1</a>
		
		
			<input class="postimod" type="checkbox" id="post_imod_checkbox_598184" name="plist[598184]" value="0" />
		
		</span>
	</div>
	<div class="postdetails">
		<div class="userinfo">
			<!-- vBSkinworks Modification: Moved a user title, rank, rep, and avatar into the "username_container" div which is center-aligned -->
			<div class="username_container">
			
				<div class="popupmenu memberaction">
	<a class="username offline popupctrl" href="member.php?230-dball" title="dball no ha iniciado sesi?n"><strong>dball</strong></a>
	<ul class="popupbody popuphover memberaction_body">
		<li class="left">
			<img src="images/custom/vuel/site_icons/profile.png" alt="" />
			<a href="member.php?230-dball">
				Ver perfil
			</a>
		</li>
		
		<li class="right">
			<img src="images/custom/vuel/site_icons/forum.png" alt="" />
			<a href="search.php?do=finduser&amp;userid=230&amp;contenttype=vBForum_Post&amp;showposts=1" rel='nofollow'>
				Ver posts del Foro
			</a>
		</li>
		
		
		<li class="left">
			<img src="images/custom/vuel/site_icons/message.png" alt="" />
			<a href="private.php?do=newpm&amp;u=230" rel='nofollow'>
				Mensaje privado
			</a>
		</li>
		
		
		
		
		
		
		
		<li class="right">
			<img src="images/custom/vuel/site_icons/article.png" alt="" />
			<a href="list.php/author/230-dball" rel='nofollow'>
				Ver art?culos publicados
			</a>
		</li>
		

		
		<li class="left">
			<img src="images/custom/vuel/site_icons/add.png" alt="" />
			<a href="profile.php?do=addlist&amp;userlist=buddy&amp;u=230">
				Agregar a tu lista de amiguis
			</a>
		</li>
		

		
		
	</ul>
</div>
 
			
			<br />
			Inutil para la Patria
			<br />
			
			
			
			<br />
			
			
				<img src="customavatars/avatar230_39.gif" alt="Avatar de dball" />
			
			 
			</div>
			
			
			
			
				<hr />
				<dl class="userinfo_extra">
					<div><dt>Se pervirti? desde</dt> <dd>septiembre-2006</dd></div>
					<div><dt>vengo de</dt> <dd>morado, joar joar vengo de morado</dd></div>
					
					<div><dt>Coeficiente Intelectual</dt> <dd>2,215</dd></div>	
					
				</dl>
				
				<dl class="userinfo_extra">
					<center><img class="inlineimg onlinestatus" src="images/custom/vuel/statusicon/user_offline.gif" alt="dball no ha iniciado sesi?n" border="0" />

 </center>
				</dl>
				
				<div class="imlinks">
					    
				</div>
				
			
		</div>
		<div class="postbody">
		
			<div class="postrow">
				

					
			[B]<div id="helpfulanswers_box_598184" style="text-align:right;">		[/B]
				<br /><hr size="1" style="color:$stylevar[tborder_bgcolor]" />	
				
			</div>		
					
				<div class="content">
					<div id="post_message_598184">
						<blockquote class="postcontent restore ">
		
<br />
<img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_s3CEKuJPGog/St5j1xdMiBI/AAAAAAAAQzE/iI4Xk7gWfvE/s400/cerati_coca_cola_fest.jpg" border="0" alt="" /><br />
<br />
y ya tengo boletos! <img src="images/smilies/tortu.gif" border="0" alt="" title="Tortu" class="inlineimg" />
						</blockquote>
					</div>

					
				</div>
			</div>
			
			<div class="after_content">

I bolded the only thing about helpful answers I can find.

[vivamexico55]

Here's a sample page if you want to see the HTML directly

http://www.leforo.com/showthread.php...onciertos-2010

[vivamexico55]

Willing to paypal 10 bux for any help solving this =)

[FractalizeR]

Are you sure your style has all template template hooks in place? Check with developer. Plugin is in place, but it seems that template hook which is rendering voting buttons in place does not work.