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 mandingo

not sure why it only shows up in some users postbits,and not others. same usergroup too.
also nothing in profile field like above.

So some postbits are getting the ratings and others are not?

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Greight

Is it only me who can't see anything in profiles though settings are set to enabled ?

No you are not; this is a bug that will be fixed this weekend.

[mandingo]

Originally Posted by Ted S

So some postbits are getting the ratings and others are not?

Some postbits don't even have the option.
edited

[compuminus]

Correction for manual placement...?

Moving this mod to below the signature line:

1. Enable Manual Template Placement
2. Find the code: {vb:raw template_hook.postbit_signature_end}
3. Add {vb:raw helpful_answers} below this line

Should instead read:

1. Enable Manual Template Placement
2. Find the code:
{vb:raw template_hook.postbit_signature_end}
</div>
</vb:if>
3. Add {vb:raw helpful_answers} below these lines

...otherwise whether the voting shows up is dependent on whether that user has a signature displayed.

[compuminus]

Originally Posted by Ted S

No you are not; this is a bug that will be fixed this weekend.

Yes, I noticed this as well. Thanks for all the fast work on such a "helpful" mod!

[mandingo]

Originally Posted by compuminus

Correction for manual placement...?

Moving this mod to below the signature line:

1. Enable Manual Template Placement
2. Find the code: {vb:raw template_hook.postbit_signature_end}
3. Add {vb:raw helpful_answers} below this line

Should instead read:

1. Enable Manual Template Placement
2. Find the code:
{vb:raw template_hook.postbit_signature_end}
</div>
</vb:if>
3. Add {vb:raw helpful_answers} below these lines


...otherwise whether the voting shows up is dependent on whether that user has a signature displayed.

that was totally my issue.
thanks.

[cooltechie]

Originally Posted by compuminus

Correction for manual placement...?

Moving this mod to below the signature line:

1. Enable Manual Template Placement
2. Find the code: {vb:raw template_hook.postbit_signature_end}
3. Add {vb:raw helpful_answers} below this line

Should instead read:

1. Enable Manual Template Placement
2. Find the code:
{vb:raw template_hook.postbit_signature_end}
</div>
</vb:if>
3. Add {vb:raw helpful_answers} below these lines


...otherwise whether the voting shows up is dependent on whether that user has a signature displayed.

I'm guess that is only for postbitlegacy. I don't see it for postbit. Also, I don't see anything listed for profile or postbit for the stats. Also, I have Enable User Points enable but don't see anything.

[compuminus]

Yes, this is only for postbitlegacy.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by compuminus

Correction for manual placement...?

Moving this mod to below the signature line:

1. Enable Manual Template Placement
2. Find the code: {vb:raw template_hook.postbit_signature_end}
3. Add {vb:raw helpful_answers} below this line

Should instead read:

1. Enable Manual Template Placement
2. Find the code:
{vb:raw template_hook.postbit_signature_end}
</div>
</vb:if>
3. Add {vb:raw helpful_answers} below these lines


...otherwise whether the voting shows up is dependent on whether that user has a signature displayed.

Thanks!

[garretbyrne]

Hi I've tried that also "compuminus" but still nothing, lol. Thats a mystery.