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.

[CvP]

Originally Posted by Ted S

In the XML file yes. Are all the fields blank or just goodrank?



The function being used is from the core vbulletin... I'll take a look at this more down the road, several old feature requests to get too first.

only goodrank is blank. badrank is 0.
Once voted (up or down), it becomes available.

Ok but can you tell me how to fix it? for now, hidden posts are impossible to display.
Clicking the "arrow" doesn't show anything.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by CvP

only goodrank is blank. badrank is 0.
Once voted (up or down), it becomes available.

Ok but can you tell me how to fix it? for now, hidden posts are impossible to display.
Clicking the "arrow" doesn't show anything.

For the 0, in the XML file go to

if(!$this->registry->options['helpans_manual']){

Above this add:

$post['goodrank'] = int($post['goodrank']);

I'm not sure why they are not expanding, as it works fine on my test site and several live sites. On your site I get no javascript errors so that's not the issue; I'll have to test more but unfortunately am traveling for a few days. I assume you have disabled this by now, or can I still review it to test further?

[CvP]

you can still view it in here: http://banglagamer.com/go/t10230

i will try out the goodrank thing later.

[CvP]

Hi Ted. That didn't work.

After I went thru your codes a few times, I understood what is going on.
I have placed the code on line 881 instead of 945.
Also, I had to change it a bit as it is not correct.

$post['goodrank'] = (int) ($post['goodrank']);

@others: to fix this, go to your admincp > plugin manager >
find this plug in: Helpful Answers -- Check if user can rate thread
click edit
on line 58, insert the above code.

[CvP]

I found the source of the collapse problem. It is this mod: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=233425

This mod is suppose to animate the process. Used to work fine on forum collapse in 4.0.3.
now it doesn't but the collapse still works.
however, in case of HA Mod, the collapse doesn't work at all.

[10 Gauge]

Thanks for the 0 fix Ted and CvP!

[pete_brady]

Originally Posted by CvP

Hi Ted. That didn't work.

After I went thru your codes a few times, I understood what is going on.
I have placed the code on line 881 instead of 945.
Also, I had to change it a bit as it is not correct.

$post['goodrank'] = (int) ($post['goodrank']);

@others: to fix this, go to your admincp > plugin manager >
find this plug in: Helpful Answers -- Check if user can rate thread
click edit
on line 58, insert the above code.

winner. works great.

[10 Gauge]

Ted: Can I request a feature? What's the possibility of building in a script that shows each user that has weighed in on a post directly under the post (exactly how the Post Thank You hack does). Possibly divided in half so one side shows good and one side shows bad or something.

Everyone on my forum is pissing and moaning about this so I figured it was worth asking if it could be added.

Thanks!

[bfdzio]

Originally Posted by Ted S

The feature lets you pick the number of votes, just be sure you set this in your admin options.

Yeah I understand that part clearly...I think you missed the main problem though Any time a post is voted negatively and it collapses, every single post below it in the thread disappears as well/collapses, and there is no way to view them then because if you click the button to view the post, it only shows you the original collapsed post.


edit: I should say, none of this matters if we can get the 'top post block' back and running in this version I just want to have either my members be able to find what they need quickly, or to not have to see the crap. How is this coming along?

[orok]

?The ability to turn off negative ratings for a positive only system.

Hello,
I would like to ask if i could make it for a negative only system (turn off positive ratings)
Thank you for this great job