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.

[bfdzio]

Ted - Any update on when it will be able to collapse posts based on the NET rating? Like I've said before, the current system is good but causes problems on active forums where posts that are read by a lot of people may get a +40/-10 and be collapsed. I can't set that to collapse at -10 though because posts on less read forums may be at +5/-6 and not collapse or just +0/-6 and not collapse. Having it collapse on just a net total would be great.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by bfdzio

Ted - Any update on when it will be able to collapse posts based on the NET rating? Like I've said before, the current system is good but causes problems on active forums where posts that are read by a lot of people may get a +40/-10 and be collapsed. I can't set that to collapse at -10 though because posts on less read forums may be at +5/-6 and not collapse or just +0/-6 and not collapse. Having it collapse on just a net total would be great.

Before I can add this I need to clean up the overall script as there's just too many stinking options.

if($this->registry->options['helpans_hidelow'] AND (($post['goodrank'] - $post['totalrank']) < $this->registry->options['helpans_hidelownum']) ){

Becomes something like...

if($this->registry->options['helpans_hidelow'] AND (($post['totalrank'] - $post['goorank']) < $this->registry->options['helpans_hidelownum']) ){

[bfdzio]

Originally Posted by Ted S

Before I can add this I need to clean up the overall script as there's just too many stinking options.

if($this->registry->options['helpans_hidelow'] AND (($post['goodrank'] - $post['totalrank']) < $this->registry->options['helpans_hidelownum']) ){

Becomes something like...

if($this->registry->options['helpans_hidelow'] AND (($post['totalrank'] - $post['goorank']) < $this->registry->options['helpans_hidelownum']) ){

Actually close but got it to work by doing this:

if($this->registry->options['helpans_hidelow'] AND (($post['goodrank'] - $post['badrank']) < $this->registry->options['helpans_hidelownum']) ){

Gracias, thank you...that'll tide me over until the next update!

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by bfdzio

Actually close but got it to work by doing this:

if($this->registry->options['helpans_hidelow'] AND (($post['goodrank'] - $post['badrank']) < $this->registry->options['helpans_hidelownum']) ){

Gracias, thank you...that'll tide me over until the next update!

Typing and talking... two things that never work together. Nicely done.

[sticky]

Originally Posted by Ted S

Great idea!

You should be able to do this just by editing out lines:

} else if ($this->registry->options['helpans_min'] AND $this->registry->userinfo['posts'] < $this->registry->options['helpans_minnum']) {
       // might need to have more post count
       $show['rate_helpfulanswer']=false;

The error part is already build in.

I could not find this exact code, I found this which is close but I am not sure if editing it out is correct:

} else if ($vbulletin->options['helpans_min'] AND $vbulletin->userinfo['posts'] < $vbulletin->options['helpans_minnum']) {
							// might need to have more post count
							$show['rate_helpfulanswer']=false;

[cevo]

with version 2.3.3 I got this error message once clicked to vote.

Warning: curl_setopt() expects parameter 2 to be long, string given in [path]/helpfulanswers.php on line 483

1 out of 1 members found this post helpful. Thank you for rating this post!

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by cevo

with version 2.3.3 I got this error message once clicked to vote.

Warning: curl_setopt() expects parameter 2 to be long, string given in [path]/helpfulanswers.php on line 483
 
1 out of 1 members found this post helpful. Thank you for rating this post!

Disable the reporting option.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by sticky

I could not find this exact code, I found this which is close but I am not sure if editing it out is correct:

} else if ($vbulletin->options['helpans_min'] AND $vbulletin->userinfo['posts'] < $vbulletin->options['helpans_minnum']) {
                            // might need to have more post count
                            $show['rate_helpfulanswer']=false;

Yup, remove it all.

[vivamexico55]

Anyone know if this breaks with 4.06

[CrystaStarLight]

Hi Ted, this mod is very similar to what I'm looking for. I was wondering if there is a way to make it do what the "Judge it" feature does on Topix's forum. To see what I mean just check out this thread on Topix, and the link above everyone's posts that says "Judge it"

http://www.topix.com/forum/city/king...9DVIR5S4V7A4IP

The "Judge it" uses rating by making different judges with fun images people can select for a certain post, and when someone selects a "judge" for the post it will say above the post what judges people have selected for that post, with the images of the judges there.

I think this would be fun mod that a lot of forum owners would love, including the ability of the admin to make their own kinds of judges for people to be able to select.