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.

[Pro-eSports.com]

I found the helpful_answers template and a code bit which has the word color in it but when I changed the color it had no effect.

PHP Code:

<br /><hr size="1" style="color:$stylevar[tborder_bgcolor]" />
                <vb:if condition="$vboptions[helpans_neg]"> 


I tested it with:
style="color:000000"
and
style="color:#000000"

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Pro-eSports.com

I found the helpful_answers template and a code bit which has the word color in it but when I changed the color it had no effect.

PHP Code:

<br /><hr size="1" style="color:$stylevar[tborder_bgcolor]" />
                <vb:if condition="$vboptions[helpans_neg]"> 


I tested it with:
style="color:000000"
and
style="color:#000000"

Which color are you looking to change?

[Pro-eSports.com]

Something like grey/silver so the mod text looks a bit more transparent. Still readable but not irritating the reader of a post.

Try this: #41383C

But let me know where exactly you change it in case it's not the 100% correct color.

Thanks.

[mihai11]

Is this working for the blog also? I mean, for the comments that users give on a blog entry?

[Ramjet79]

Hey. Thanks for this mod. I'm testing it out on our dev site currently.

I had a couple of suggestions that would help us immensely.

(If these features don't already exist) Can you add a function to disallow rating of posts by administrators/moderators? i.e. People cannot vote posts made by admins and mods, etc (or selectable usergroups).

Also, I would love for there to be an option to "view only helpful posts in thread" or something. For example, if I am using a positive only system, a user could select an option to only view posts that have been rated as helpful, and leave everything else invisible.

The point being (whether using a negative, or positive only system) users who wanted to, could easily cut to the meat of a thread, and ignore the noise by choosing to view only posts in the thread that have been rated helpful (either at all, or an admin set minimum number of positive ratings)

Thanks.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Pro-eSports.com

Something like grey/silver so the mod text looks a bit more transparent. Still readable but not irritating the reader of a post.

Try this: #41383C

But let me know where exactly you change it in case it's not the 100% correct color.

Thanks.

Your code changed a line break... so that wont do much. Are you looking to change the font?

[Expertu]

I have a small problem with this mod. In posts/threads where the rating system appears, the correct white background is screwed up, and some tables/divs appears smaller or larger than they are by default, without this mod.

Page with Helpful Answers: http://forum.seopedia.ro/google/1393...lasi-ip-2.html (If you notice, the 3rd post box, is larger in width, than the 1st or the 2nd post.)

Page without Helpful Answers: http://forum.seopedia.ro/website-uri...clips-com.html

[Vikingant]

This may have already been asked but to save going through 50 pages I will ask now.

I have noticed that users can only rate one post per thread. is there a setting to allow users to rate many posts within a thread?

[sticky]

Originally Posted by Vikingant

This may have already been asked but to save going through 50 pages I will ask now.

I have noticed that users can only rate one post per thread. is there a setting to allow users to rate many posts within a thread?

You should be able to rate as many posts in a thread as are within your ratings allowed per day variable.

[Vikingant]

Thanks Sticky. Where would I find that? I cant find a setting in helpful answers or reputation settings.