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]

Sounds like you have some duplicate thread vote records [as in there's more than one row storing votes on a thread].

There's a way to de-dup these but if you don't have much data in the system, just clear things out:

DELETE FROM helpfulpost;
DELETE FROM helpfulpost;
UPDATE user SET hagoodrank = 0, hatotalrank=0, helpfulcnt=0;

BEFORE you re-enable anything be sure to upload all of the scripts again. Parse errors don't happen due to the database, they're calculated before the script executes -- but changing settings can expose different code dependencies which can errors.

[radiofranky]

Hi,
I would like to display "helpful" option on first post only. Is this possible?

thanks

I have modified line 907 to "!=" but helpful is still showing on every threads replies.

[radiofranky]

One more question, what is the variable that stores "negative" vote? I would like display how many negative votes were casted next to "positive"

example.

12 LIKE 3 DISLIKE

[radiofranky]

issue with ajax refreshing. After I clicked "+" both current and previous results were shown.
I have to refresh the page to get the rid of previous result.

see img thanks

https://tmpdmp.com/b87ed81421d14920/824dde8594a8bf5e

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by radiofranky

issue with ajax refreshing. After I clicked "+" both current and previous results were shown.
I have to refresh the page to get the rid of previous result.

see img thanks

https://tmpdmp.com/b87ed81421d14920/824dde8594a8bf5e

Have you modified your templates / addon? Do you run other post related addons?

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by radiofranky

Hi,
I would like to display "helpful" option on first post only. Is this possible?

thanks

I have modified line 907 to "!=" but helpful is still showing on every threads replies.

Have you enabled the suppress from first post option?

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by radiofranky

One more question, what is the variable that stores "negative" vote? I would like display how many negative votes were casted next to "positive"

example.

12 LIKE 3 DISLIKE

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

[Sage Knight]

Question; Where is the "tab" that you keep mentioning?

[Ed Jobe]

Is it possible to use this addon so that the best answer shows up at the top of the thread?

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Sage Knight

Question; Where is the "tab" that you keep mentioning?

tab?