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.

[11133]

Originally Posted by CvP

I'll take a look into it but it'll take time. I'll be busy for next few days.

its ok, take a look when you have time
thanks a lot

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Britmovie

Hi I installed as directed on www.britmovie.net/britforum but nothing shows. Using the latest of your mod and vb and default theme? Am I missing permissions somewhere?

Did you enable the mod in the forum you are testing on?

[Ted S]

Version 2.3.3 is now live for vB 4.0.4 and 4.0.5 and adds in a top rated post option.

Coming next... a scheduled task to close low rated threads.

Got other ideas? Share them for a future update.

[sticky]

Basically what was mentioned before,

- Exclude certain usergroups from voting
- Exclude negative reputations from voting
- Follow VB reputation user spread option rules
- Voting per day based on usergroup or exempt Administrators
- Hide posts with low ratings

That would make it perfect This is just a personal request but I would like that instead of having the thumbs up / thumbs down disappear for those not allowed to vote it is still there but they get an error that explains why they can't. So if a user is banned from using it, or doesn't have enough posts, the thumbs up/down doesn't just disappear but they are reminded with a message why they can't use it or need more posts to use it.

[CvP]

Originally Posted by Ted S

Version 2.3.3 is now live for vB 4.0.4 and 4.0.5 and adds in a top rated post option.

Coming next... a scheduled task to close low rated threads.

Got other ideas? Share them for a future update.

voters' names under the post! like the thank you hack, like XenForo does!

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by CvP

voters' names under the post! like the thank you hack, like XenForo does!

That would make a much different mod... you'd be able to tell who voted what so I assume you'd want to show their vote as well?

[bfdzio]

Awesome work, I am able to get the link to the top rated post which is great. Did you also re-code the top rated post block (which is supposed to list the top rated posts) to work in this yet?

Also in the next update will you be getting the net rating tossed in?

[CvP]

Originally Posted by Ted S

That would make a much different mod... you'd be able to tell who voted what so I assume you'd want to show their vote as well?

It can be admin defined.

1 show user names
2 show user names with votes
3 show user names for members; show user names with votes for moderators

for 1, have a box with small text size and comma list all user names.
for 2, place two box with small text size and comma list all user names accordingly.
for 3, combine 1 and 2 and simple template if condition.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by bfdzio

Awesome work, I am able to get the link to the top rated post which is great. Did you also re-code the top rated post block (which is supposed to list the top rated posts) to work in this yet?

Also in the next update will you be getting the net rating tossed in?

The top rated posts feature is working fine?

[bfdzio]

Maybe only works for new threads from here on out? Let me try and re-install it. I only get the top rated post, but not the post block.