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.

[chriske]

Originally Posted by chriske

Having style issues in 4.0.7.

The first screenshot is how a post normally looks, the second is how the post looks in forums where this mod is activated.

Anyone else experiencing this?

Anyone?

[Solarflex]

Originally Posted by Ted S

Have you modified your postbit / postbit_legacy templates?

There are more people working on my site, so I'll ask them too. But when I look at my Style Manager the "postbit" and "postbit_legacy" are both normal. All of the "postbit_*" are. Just black... no "inherited -" or "customized style" color.., so I guess they aren't modified..

[chriske]

Also the Inline moderation is broken in the forums where this mod is activated

I realy like this mod, anyone have a idea how to fix it?

[netzwart]

Thank you for this great ADDON!!!

Right now, i am trying to move the display location of the ADDON. In the admincp there is said, that i will have to edit the template postbit/ postbig legacy to include the variable $helpful_answers, which allows for customizable display locations for the ADDON.

Unfortunatyly, i don?t know how to do this. Could anybody give me basic instructions, how and where to include the variable $helpful_answers in the corresponding template (finding and editing the template is not the problem!).

What i am trying to do, is to put the location of the MOD below the post (see screenshot), for example into the footer.

Thank you in advance

Netzwart

SORRY, found the solution in post

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....76&postcount=2

of this thread !!!!! My fault !!!

[netzwart]

Hello,

in the control panel of the user, i am showing the latest received reputation of the user. If the new reputation is based on a voting by "Helpful Answers", it says: "Helpful Answers Negative (or Positive) Rating". (see Screenshot)

Where can i translate or change this Phrase ???

I found the phrase in the admincp, changed/translated it, but nothing happens. No matter which language is chosen by the user, always the above-mentioned version of the phrase is shown

Netzwart

[Greek76]

Does this work with the latest vb version?

[netzwart]

Originally Posted by Greek76

Does this work with the latest vb version?

I don?t know, I am using VB 4.0.8 PL2 and not vB 4.1.0, because i have made so much amendments and don?t want to risk anything by upgrading ...

Netzwart

[cungchuctanxuan]

Warning: curl_setopt() [function.curl-setopt]: Invalid curl configuration option in [path]\helpfulanswers.php on line 483

This is the error I get when pressing "like". The vote goes through tho.
Any idea. Thanks

[preemz10314]

doesnt work un installed.

[Solarflex]

Originally Posted by Solarflex

There are more people working on my site, so I'll ask them too. But when I look at my Style Manager the "postbit" and "postbit_legacy" are both normal. All of the "postbit_*" are. Just black... no "inherited -" or "customized style" color.., so I guess they aren't modified..

Not edited.
What do I need to do?

Edit: Nvm. I found out. Problem fixed.