Post Thank You Hack 5.1

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 granted 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: 4
• Files to upload: 1
• Time to install: 5 minutes max

Updates:

Version 5.0 (08/03/06):

• Release of this hack for vBulletin version 3.6

Version 5.1 (09/14/06):

• AJAX disabled if you have AJAX disabled on your forum.
• Re-did the search for thanked posts.
• Fixed bugs with adding and deleting rep points.

Pictures:

1. Showing the 'thanks' button and stats in Postbit
2. Showing post after 'thanks' (user view)
3. Showing post after 'thanks' (admin view)
4. Showing post after 'thanks' with legacy posts (admin view)
5. Stats in members profile and link
6. Link in Search drop down menu
7. Hacks settings

note: This isn't my hack,, the donations are not to me.. This is from the coder who made the hack..-Brandon

Download the hack: [AJAX] Post Thank You Hack - vBulletin.org Forum

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Looks like a great hack but how do you get different color buttons to match your skins?

you have to make them, some styles will have the psd with them,, here is a button I used for the kirsh style..

Attached Images

post_thanks.gif (1.3 KB, 13 views)

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Are they easy to make? Im not into the graphic things lol.

I didn't make that one, but if you have the psd of the buttons, you can replace the text pretty easily

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Can I use it on vBulletin 3.6.2?

I am not trying to post boost

But you mentioned to me in another thread about using the thanks button, and I honestly didn't "get it" but now I do. I may have to give this a shot on my forums just to see if it will actually help threads have a cleaner look to them. Though, I'm not sure I mind or see a negative to users actually posting something even if it is a thanks or just a thumbs up or whatever.

Is their a negative other then aesthetically it might not be as pleasing to the eyes?

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well one thing that I think is negitive is that your content will be very poor..

like here, we're trying to target "vbulletin" "vbulletin optimize" "vbulletin styles" etc...

if we have a bunch of post that are just " hey thankkkks" " good job" and very few relavent post then the keywords that we are targeting might get lost

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you can add 'thanks' to not allowed words in the settings ;) this way people can only use the hack for that ;)
*and one more th.. posted*

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hmmm, I'll admit, I'm not very wise in the ways of targeting and SEO as you might be able to tell. So this is all news to me. I'll have to implement and see if it helps at all.

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