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hyper_ch
August 21st, 2007, 05:53 AM
I have seen the Thank You mod on a few other boards installed and I think it's a great tool.

Basically it lets you click on a thank you button for a specific post in a threat and it will show you then how often this person has been thanked for and how often this person thanked others.

I consider it some sort as "quality feedback" on peoples reply.

You can activated it for certain forums only, so it would be good in the actual support forums and not in the community ones.

http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=122944


Post Thank You Hack 6.3


About this hack:
One of the biggest problems on forums as you may know is 'posts boosting'. There are users who LOVE to say 'thanks' when ever they can. How can it hurt? Their post count goes up, they have nothing to loose.

There are also users who really like to express their thanks to post but don't like posting a post that looks like they're post boosting.

Then comes the moderators who have to delete people's thanks yous so a thread can look readable with out the thanks yous thrown around.

Finally comes the posters of these useful posts. They have no idea how many people really likes their posts if only some people say 'thanks'.

What this hack does is fix ALL these problems - except those users who like post boosting. This places a button called 'thanks.' When a user clicks on it, it places his username in a box right under the post saying that so-and-so says 'thanks' for the post. Every-one who clicks is placed in one box.

By giving your users the extra feature, you forum will look allot nice and organized. It is a guaranteed liking by ALL the members of your forum.

Features:
Uses vBulletin easy Product installer/updater/uninstaller
Uses AJAX technology so your users don't have to refresh when they thank.
Places an easy to use button next to the edit button
Separate looks for postbit and postbit_legacy
Places all Thanks into one small box
Uses only ONE query every time you view a showthread page!
Users can't thank twice
Option to not allow users to thank their own post
Guests don't see 'thanks' button
Counts how many thanks a user gives
Counts how many thanks a post gets
Shows how many thanks a user gave in every post of his
Shows how many thanks a user gave in profile
Shows how many thanks a user got
Shows how many posts or a user are thanked
Shows info in profile
Search for a users thanked posts
Search for all thanked posts
Administrator can remove all Thanks from a single post
Users can remove their own Thanks
Turn on and off hack totally
Turn on and off hack for only some forums
Option to turn off hack for all but the first post of a thread
Option to turn off hack for all but the first post of a thread in specific forums
Option to turn off hack view of date for specific or all forums
Option to add to post count when someone clicks 'thanks'.
Option to give a user who receives thanks reputation points.
Ban Usergroups
Ban Users
Uses Phrases
Cache Templates
Guaranteed to be liked by ALL users on your forum!
Installation information on hack:
Files edited: 0
Templates edited: 0
Files to upload: 7
Time to install: 1 minute max


I really think it would be a good add-on feature here.

wieman01
August 21st, 2007, 07:25 AM
I think that would be a good feature, but I understand that the forum administrators have decided against an evaluation system. Therefore I doubt this will be implemented anytime soon.

hyper_ch
August 21st, 2007, 07:51 AM
Well, it's not an evaluation system as it does not give negative critics...

I just thought it would also be inspiring for those that often provide help that they can see, that it is appreciated by others.

wieman01
August 21st, 2007, 07:56 AM
Well, it's not an evaluation system as it does not give negative critics...

I just thought it would also be inspiring for those that often provide help that they can see, that it is appreciated by others.
Like I said, why not. Let's see what the mods have got to say.

mcurtiss1970
August 21st, 2007, 07:59 AM
i like this idea, especially since it doesn't give negative feedback which is more often than not used for personal or unsubstantial reasons

toanmai84
September 10th, 2007, 04:02 AM
but me not download yet. If you have it please sent it to my mail (toanmai84@yahoo.com). Thank's.

hyper_ch
September 10th, 2007, 04:29 AM
If you have a valid vB licence, you can download that hack yourself.

southernman
September 10th, 2007, 08:32 AM
That would be a nice mod/hack for this forum. I've seen that too on HTF.

hyper_ch
September 10th, 2007, 09:59 AM
Htf?

southernman
September 10th, 2007, 10:12 AM
HowtoForge

hyper_ch
September 10th, 2007, 10:23 AM
Ah ;) that's also where I know it from

hyper_ch
December 17th, 2007, 08:06 AM
I see it is now implemented ;)

Thx for that ;)

Edit: The button should still be adjusted to the forum...

PriceChild
December 17th, 2007, 09:32 AM
Where did that button come from?! :D

hyper_ch
December 17th, 2007, 09:42 AM
Looks to me like the one made for the standard vB theme ;) I guess nobody adjusted that yet.

FuturePilot
December 17th, 2007, 01:57 PM
Where did that button come from?! :D

I was wondering the same thing. :lol:
How does this work?

KhaaL
December 17th, 2007, 04:24 PM
I was wondering the same thing. :lol:
How does this work?

You click on it :lolflag:

I don't know actually, but i'm gonna try it on you.. i hope you don't mind! ;)

hyper_ch
December 17th, 2007, 04:40 PM
now it's not a vB button anymore but a medal :) that looks better ;)

Is there also a way that the thanks stats can be added this posting profile section?


Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Scandinavia
Beans: 472
Kubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon User
Thanks: 2
Thanked 7 Times in 7 Posts

wieman01
December 18th, 2007, 03:18 AM
Where do the stats go anyway? I can't seem to find them... :-(

LaRoza
December 18th, 2007, 03:22 AM
Where do the stats go anyway? I can't seem to find them... :-(

It looks like it is only for the thread, not a statistical feature.

wieman01
December 18th, 2007, 03:24 AM
Ahh... I tested it just now. Thanks, LaRoza, makes sense now.

hyper_ch
December 18th, 2007, 04:30 AM
With regard to the evil sudo rm -rf commands posted in various threads a while ago I just tend to think, that if thanks stats would appear in the people's profile section (as posted above) it would help new users to consider the trustworthiness... I mean a person who was thanked like 1000 times probably won't post harmful commands [of course there's always the option that someone else is using that person's computer or that his account got hacked...] but I guess you know what I mean.

One could also say that someone with 1000 posts probably won't post harmful commands either..

John.Michael.Kane
December 18th, 2007, 09:45 AM
With regard to the evil sudo rm -rf commands posted in various threads a while ago I just tend to think, that if thanks stats would appear in the people's profile section (as posted above) it would help new users to consider the trustworthiness... I mean a person who was thanked like 1000 times probably won't post harmful commands [of course there's always the option that someone else is using that person's computer or that his account got hacked...] but I guess you know what I mean.

One could also say that someone with 1000 posts probably won't post harmful commands either..

What about a forum member with well over a 1000 posts or even a member with 1 or 2 posts, and no thanks given. You have to remember new to Ubuntu Forums does not equate new to Linux.

You are inevitably going to have user who have used other Distro's etc who are new to this forum, and may have the answer someone needs yet they may have no thanks given or a low post count.

Do you cast all low/high post count no thanks collected members, As ones to possibly post harmful commands?

If anything you should expect or be able to ask members posting answers at minimum to explain what the commands do. Then you have the issue of those who don't want the commands explain ( they got no time for the jibba jabba!) they just want the answers so they can move on.

While I feel the thanking system is nice.Said system in the end should not be a gauge of ones trustworthiness or used to deter the use of members answers, As you are bound to have users who will not make use of the thanking system( As it's not a mandatory forum policy), and forum members who post helpful answers with low/high post count, and no thanks to their credit.

komputes
December 20th, 2007, 09:36 AM
I recently saw this change. How do I get a "Thank You" badge, and where is the rating for each user?

hyper_ch
December 20th, 2007, 09:48 AM
You have to press this button upon another's posting: http://ubuntuforums.org/images/uf/buttons/post_thanks.gif

jken146
December 20th, 2007, 09:55 AM
I like the way members are not rated . There are so many different people in this forum community who have different levels of expertise in different fields, and a great many people who would tell you that they don't really have any expertise but are just offering friendly advice. The randomness and triviality of the coffee bean system seem to reflect this.

komputes
August 8th, 2008, 11:25 PM
Did the thank you mod disappear? I wanted to thank someone for a useful post but I can't seem to find the blue thank-you badge any longer (even if I am logged in). Does anyone else see it?

LaRoza
August 8th, 2008, 11:59 PM
Did the thank you mod disappear? I wanted to thank someone for a useful post but I can't seem to find the blue thank-you badge any longer (even if I am logged in). Does anyone else see it?

On posts older than 60 days, it isn't available.

Just the way the plug in works.

komputes
August 21st, 2008, 05:45 PM
60 Day limit... nice, real nice. :(

LaRoza
August 21st, 2008, 06:18 PM
60 Day limit... nice, real nice. :(

The plugin is not ours (none of us wrote it) and we didn't make that behavior.

billgoldberg
August 22nd, 2008, 09:39 AM
On posts older than 60 days, it isn't available.

Just the way the plug in works.

Oh, that clarifies some things.