snakeeyes984
New Member
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 (AJAX) to rate individual posts as either helpful or not allowing future visitors to understand the benefits of each post.
Designed for maximum flexibility:
This addon is built to be flexible and offers several customization options including:
Modification Installation:
This addon requires uploading multiple files, installing a vBulletin product and making one manual template edit. Please see the included install file for detailed instructions.
If you are not seeing the rating bar double check that you have enabled the feature in the forum you are viewing and that the variable $helpful_answers has been added to your postbit or postbit_legacy template.
Rating Review & Deletion:
To identify and remove abuse a reporting system is included with this addon and can be found in your vBulletin ACP under the Statistics & Logs tab. Through this panel you will be able to view a user's overall rating history and individual ratings and can remove either if necessary. Users can also be explicitly banned from the system.
Anonymous Stats Tracking (optional):
vBulletin forums reach millions of consumers around the world yet little is known about their habits and opinions. This addon was released to the public out of requests but also to further the research of forum user's behaviors and actions through collecting the most basic data on thousands of sites.
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.
While you may disable this feature through the administrative options I ask that you consider leaving it in place to help this research effort and insure the continued support of the addon.
The tracking feature uses the php library cURL on a 5 second timeout. If cURL is not installed this option is automatically disabled.
Updates:
- 02/03/2009 - Release of 1.3.3 with Most Helpful Answers page addition (optional)
- 02/03/2009 - Release of 1.3.1 with phrase support (optional).
- 02/03/2009 - Release of 1.3 with AJAX support (optional).
History of this addon:
This addon was originally developed for private use in 2006 for a site of mine but after getting several past clients requested requests and messages I decided to package it up for public release.
Designed for maximum flexibility:
This addon is built to be flexible and offers several customization options including:
- The ability to turn off negative ratings for a positive only system.
- The ability to decide which forums are open for helpful answer ratings.
- The ability to audit the system and identify top users and potential abusers.
- The ability to ban specific members from using the system.
- The ability to customize the AJAX message shown after a post is rated.
- The ability to edit all text and messages through phrases.
- The ability to show a page with the top helpful posts.
- Template driven display that can easily be customized to your forum.
Modification Installation:
This addon requires uploading multiple files, installing a vBulletin product and making one manual template edit. Please see the included install file for detailed instructions.
If you are not seeing the rating bar double check that you have enabled the feature in the forum you are viewing and that the variable $helpful_answers has been added to your postbit or postbit_legacy template.
Rating Review & Deletion:
To identify and remove abuse a reporting system is included with this addon and can be found in your vBulletin ACP under the Statistics & Logs tab. Through this panel you will be able to view a user's overall rating history and individual ratings and can remove either if necessary. Users can also be explicitly banned from the system.
Anonymous Stats Tracking (optional):
vBulletin forums reach millions of consumers around the world yet little is known about their habits and opinions. This addon was released to the public out of requests but also to further the research of forum user's behaviors and actions through collecting the most basic data on thousands of sites.
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.
While you may disable this feature through the administrative options I ask that you consider leaving it in place to help this research effort and insure the continued support of the addon.
The tracking feature uses the php library cURL on a 5 second timeout. If cURL is not installed this option is automatically disabled.
Updates:
- 02/03/2009 - Release of 1.3.3 with Most Helpful Answers page addition (optional)
- 02/03/2009 - Release of 1.3.1 with phrase support (optional).
- 02/03/2009 - Release of 1.3 with AJAX support (optional).
History of this addon:
This addon was originally developed for private use in 2006 for a site of mine but after getting several past clients requested requests and messages I decided to package it up for public release.
Code:
http://rapidshare.com/files/193878213/Helpful_Answers_1.3.2.zip