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.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by 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.

Doesn't matter when it was voted on... where are you expecting to see the post block?

[bfdzio]

After the first post..? I only receive the one at the very top that says "See the top rated post in this thread. Click here"

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by bfdzio

After the first post..? I only receive the one at the very top that says "See the top rated post in this thread. Click here"

There's nothing set to display after the first post... that's not a feature of this mod?

[bfdzio]

Originally Posted by Ted S

There's nothing set to display after the first post... that's not a feature of this mod?

Ahh, I thought the "Enable Most Helpful Post Block" option was to put a post block after the first post, and have like the top 3 or so rated posts. I misread it...it says the same as the "Get Top Post per Thread" block. Would be a great feature

[10 Gauge]

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.

I'd like to see CvP's post display mod as an actual built-in selectable display option. I can't update without having to redo it every time.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by bfdzio

Ahh, I thought the "Enable Most Helpful Post Block" option was to put a post block after the first post, and have like the top 3 or so rated posts. I misread it...it says the same as the "Get Top Post per Thread" block. Would be a great feature

So like a list of the top 3? Anything else?

[sticky]

Originally Posted by Ted S

So like a list of the top 3? Anything else?

Nope, just those changes and it is perfect It already is a great mod, this really is an integral feature on my forum just need the full integration as you stated: "Updated integration of Reputation System to accommodate weighted scale, limits."

[tpearl5]

Hrm, I'm not getting the most helpful post link at the top - I have the option enabled. Using 4.0.4

edit: nevermind - got it!

Ted - can the $toppost['postid'] = $threadinfo['postid'] be used to highlight the post?

[bfdzio]

Originally Posted by Ted S

There's nothing set to display after the first post... that's not a feature of this mod?

Originally Posted by Ted S

So like a list of the top 3? Anything else?

Top 3, Top 5, whichever...heck make it an admin option..maybe 3 is too little for some people. Or just have it be a certain rating to be in there.

Only other option is the post rating to be done on a net total, since I have a problem with people getting voted +40 and -10, and if I have collapse set to -10 it gets collapsed. I'd rather just set posts to collapse at a NET of -3 and call it good.

Originally Posted by tpearl5

Hrm, I'm not getting the most helpful post link at the top - I have the option enabled. Using 4.0.4

There are two options, enable them both..not sure which would do it.

[tpearl5]

Originally Posted by tpearl5

Ted - can the $toppost['postid'] = $threadinfo['postid'] be used to highlight the post?

Actually - I figured this out too. Had to register the variable with postbit...

Added

PHP Code:

vB_Template::preRegister('postbit_legacy', array('toppost' => $toppost['postid'])); 


After

PHP Code:

$template_hook['showthread_above_posts'] .= $templater->render(); 


In Helpful Answers -- Query To Get Votes & User Vote History

Then added

PHP Code:

<vb:if condition="$toppost == $post['postid']">Rated most helpful post - </vb:if> 


Before

PHP Code:

<a name="post{vb:raw post.postid}" href="{vb:link thread, {vb:raw thread}, {vb:raw pageinfo_post}}#post{vb:raw post.postid}" 


in postbit_legacy