Post Quality Points System! [megahack]

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Quality/Length of Post Points System
A hack by N9ne, copyright 2003, created on Feb 16 2003.
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Description:
This hack is packed full of features. It will introduce a point system
to your forum. This is not like previous released points systems though.
The points are allocated to users based on the length of their post, in
characters. There are 3 levels to the amount of points allocated. You
can choose to use up to level 1, level 2, or level 3. This is also done on a
per forum basis. You can have the whole feature disabled in a forum, and
you can have level 1 enabled on one forum, and level 3 enabled on another.
You can set separate values of # of chars in post, and how many points are
received when that figure is exceeded. This is also on a per forum, per level
basis.

No points are given if the post has less characters than specified in level 1.

Quality point count is shown on the profile page of the user, in the postbit
under post count, and in the user's profile in the adminCP. Admins can edit
a user's amount of quality points in the adminCP.

Options are also added to the vBulletin Options page in the adminCP. You
can enable quality points - custom avatars, where you may specify the
number of points a user must have, and if he has that amount, he can
use a custom avatar, regardless of his post count. There is the same option
for custom titles. You can set a value for minimum required quality points
and if the user has that amount or more, they can specify a custom title,
regardless of their post count or days registered.

Options to specify levels, # of characters, # of points given, are in the
add forum and edit forum pages in the adminCP.

In newthread and newreply, above the options part, it will specify how
many characters are to be in the post, to achieve specified levels, and
how many points are awarded. If the quality point system is disabled in
the forum, it will say so.
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For: 2.2.x and 2.3.x (hack created in 2.2.9 - should work on 2.2.x - 2.3.x though)
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Files to modify:
admin/forum.php
admin/user.php
newreply.php
newthread.php
member.php
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Templates to modify:
newreply
newthread
getinfo
postbit
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Queries to run: 15
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Please backup your database and the templates and files we're going to
modify in this hack, before proceeding to install it. I will not take any
responsibility and am not liable for any damage done to your forum.
You should have a backup.
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Addons
Top Quality Posters Page



Download the attached .php file and open it in a text editor which can handle long strings of text and large files.

Support will just be given in this thread. I will try my hardest to answer most questions!

Screenshots can be found in next post.

[007]

Anyone got this working with the store hack yet??

[ChrisLM2001]

OMG! Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Finally a way to reward members who type quality posts.

Going to install it now.

Chris

[squawell]

N9ne i have a question about this

if i want the new register member have basic points how should i

do?thankz....

[N9ne]

You want each member to start with a given amount? That defeats the object of the hack where people earn the points from posting, going by the length of their post...

[squawell]

Today at 03:27 AM N9ne said this in Post #44
You want each member to start with a given amount? That defeats the object of the hack where people earn the points from posting, going by the length of their post...

can i just use the simple quary to update the points table let

already register member have basic points?if they zero point....

[bigwest]

Looks like a great hack, I wish there was an easier install for us dummies!

[N9ne]

It's fairly simple to install, if you have any questions, please feel free to ask.

[VirtualHogwarts]

This would be perfect for the House Points idea for my Hogwarts Board. The only problem is how would I get it to have a page where I could show an added up spot for 4 usergroups.

So if you it would show user groups A points all added up

B's C's and D's (the 4 houses)

any ideas?

[Kruppa]

If I install this will it be retroactive to all posts made so far on my board? What I like about this hack is that you can come up with a scheme to compare post count versus quality count but if a user already has 2000 posts and we start giving that user a quality score after every post subsequent to his 2000 posts the result will be tainted.

Does anyone know about this?

[Kruppa]

Ok I've installed and everything seems fine except for one very uncool side effect. Where is the radio button to enable post count or not in a given forum?!