MOD: REQ: Points System
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Topic: MOD: REQ: Points System
Posted By: Praveen
Subject: MOD: REQ: Points System
Date Posted: 20 November 2006 at 12:48pm
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Can a points system be added to the forums for this version (8.04) able to donate and something like:
Few Lines - 0.2 - 4.5 Points (depending on the content)
Above That - 5 Points
New Topic - 5 + {0.2 - 4.5} Points (depending on the content)
Can this be created?? Thanks in advance
Praveen Kumar ------------- 
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Posted By: gölge
Date Posted: 25 November 2006 at 1:08am
| hmm, this sounds good. if i can leave alive from my exams, i gonna try that. |
Posted By: Praveen
Date Posted: 25 November 2006 at 11:55am
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Thanks -------------
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Posted By: ThomasD
Date Posted: 02 December 2006 at 5:06pm
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I have been floating that idea as well but I haven't had a chance to upgrade our forums from 7.9 yet and I felt it would be better to build this on the 8.0+ platform. Anyone want to do this as a group effort to improve our chances of getting this done? ------------- Thomas Demond Editor http://forums.horsenewsnetwork.com - Horse News Network Forums |
Posted By: Praveen
Date Posted: 02 December 2006 at 5:21pm
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Ya sure. Iam there to help but howw?? -------------
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Posted By: ThomasD
Date Posted: 02 December 2006 at 5:55pm
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I would say we need to see if there are any others interested in this. We know this is going to involve both the web code and the database backend. I am a developer/project manager for a fortune 500 company and have 10 years experience in both areas. I think we need to put thought in to all the possible ways of awarding points. I like your idea of doing a line count though I am not sure how you would judge the quality of the content. ------------- Thomas Demond Editor http://forums.horsenewsnetwork.com - Horse News Network Forums |
Posted By: Praveen
Date Posted: 02 December 2006 at 5:56pm
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OK. Let us see,,, -------------
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Posted By: ThomasD
Date Posted: 02 December 2006 at 6:00pm
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I will see about putting together a high level plan and posting it while we see if we get any other takers. ------------- Thomas Demond Editor http://forums.horsenewsnetwork.com - Horse News Network Forums |
Posted By: Praveen
Date Posted: 02 December 2006 at 6:02pm
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Your forums what version are they? -------------
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Posted By: ThomasD
Date Posted: 02 December 2006 at 6:54pm
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7.9 but I have downloaded the 8.4 version which is what I would build on. ------------- Thomas Demond Editor http://forums.horsenewsnetwork.com - Horse News Network Forums |
Posted By: Praveen
Date Posted: 03 December 2006 at 7:36am
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Where can I get Guestbook 8.2 -------------
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Posted By: ThomasD
Date Posted: 16 December 2006 at 1:18am
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I am still working on a design doc for the building a points system.
------------- Thomas Demond Editor http://forums.horsenewsnetwork.com - Horse News Network Forums |
Posted By: Praveen
Date Posted: 16 December 2006 at 11:28am
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How much time would you take?? -------------
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Posted By: ThomasD
Date Posted: 16 December 2006 at 2:19pm
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I am going to try and finish up most of it this morning.
------------- Thomas Demond Editor http://forums.horsenewsnetwork.com - Horse News Network Forums |
Posted By: ThomasD
Date Posted: 16 December 2006 at 2:24pm
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I broadened the concept so I am breaking the changes out into 2 phases. Instead of just giving points for posting a topic and replying to a topic, I am also providing for giving points for joining, for voting in a poll, and inviting friends to join.
------------- Thomas Demond Editor http://forums.horsenewsnetwork.com - Horse News Network Forums |
Posted By: ThomasD
Date Posted: 16 December 2006 at 5:26pm
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Ok, I just realized there are some minor differences between version 7.9 and 8.04 in file naming so I am updating my work to prevent confusion. I need to go back and see if the registration process is different. So Praveen, I guess its just you and me at the moment.
------------- Thomas Demond Editor http://forums.horsenewsnetwork.com - Horse News Network Forums |
Posted By: Ali Bilgrami
Date Posted: 25 December 2006 at 12:08pm
errmm....you can count me in  ...so where did your tracking back took you? any progress?------------- Lets! |
Posted By: ThomasD
Date Posted: 25 December 2006 at 9:11pm
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With the release of 8.05 last week I decided to update both my development environment as well as our live forums late last night so that I would have the latest stable code to work with. The design document I have so far needs to be completed but the basic concept is to have a points system that has a standard base value for all posts plus the possibility to rate posts and give additional points. Some secondary features I have been looking at would be points for getting others to join, points for voting in polls etc... The possibilities are probably endless but I am looking to break this out into 2 phases with the first phase being getting the basic points for posts system in place. I am also planning on making it totally modular so that there is maybe only one change to existing database structure and any changes to web code will be of the object kind in that we can turn on/off the points system without physically touching the code again and without adding large blocks of code to the existing code. I actually think the hardest part is going to be working out the ratings functionality. I could see that adding some un-thought of consequences so that is probably better for phase 2. ------------- Thomas Demond Editor http://forums.horsenewsnetwork.com - Horse News Network Forums |
Posted By: Praveen
Date Posted: 26 December 2006 at 12:24pm
Hi But please help me... Iam recieving this error...
Thank you -------------
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Active Server Pages error 'ASP 0201'
Posted By: Ali Bilgrami
Date Posted: 26 December 2006 at 5:29pm
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check out darb's warning mod for 7.9 maybe u get some ideas from that ------------- Lets! |
Posted By: Praveen
Date Posted: 01 January 2007 at 10:58am
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OK Ill See.. Happy New Year to all... -------------
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Posted By: Melkor
Date Posted: 04 January 2007 at 11:15pm
| Not sure if this is what you mean but I put a point system on my forum where a user can earn 1 or two points per post dependant on character count and which forum they are posting |
Posted By: Praveen
Date Posted: 05 January 2007 at 1:11am
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Wow thats great!! But what about the integration with the database???? -------------
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Posted By: larsba
Date Posted: 25 January 2007 at 9:29am
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Hi.... are you still working on this mod? i#m very interested in something like that...
thanks
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Posted By: -koen-
Date Posted: 25 January 2007 at 1:16pm
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Hi, I think I can use this mod too, if you have problems just say it I will help. BTW are you guys put the text in too a language file? Cus I need a system for "money", and this is a nice start to get "money" on the forum where you can buy this whit like username change etc. ------------- Don't check me english spelling please... |
Posted By: ThomasD
Date Posted: 25 January 2007 at 4:43pm
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I am still working on it. Been trying to knock out some of the code as part of my design doc. I will try to post some of what I have.
------------- Thomas Demond Editor http://forums.horsenewsnetwork.com - Horse News Network Forums |
Posted By: ThomasD
Date Posted: 25 January 2007 at 5:03pm
Koen, not sure I understand what you are asking but I have worked with the language file before on an earlier version. Not sure what the correlation between the language file and a money system is though. I did have the idea for the second phase to also include a way people could use their points for rewards or the such because points for the sake of points isn't going to go far with my members. ------------- Thomas Demond Editor http://forums.horsenewsnetwork.com - Horse News Network Forums |
Posted By: jeffdaro
Date Posted: 27 January 2007 at 1:43am
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To toss this in the mix...I am working on a SQL only rating system MOD, http://www.darofamily.com/jeff/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=375 - info here . This MOD is still in the works. Right now I have code in place to automatically rate user's based on the size of their posts, which is a key issue for my forums. I am working on weigting the scores now. Feedback is welcomed. |
Posted By: ThomasD
Date Posted: 27 January 2007 at 4:57pm
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Yea, the points system is simple compared to developing a meaningful rating system. I certainly do like what you have so far. Why is size such a key issue on your forums? I can see size being one factor to use but it would certainly be the easiest to abuse. Here would be my idea for rating a post. 1. The topic starter could score posts as to how well the answer a question asked. 2. Admin/Moderator could score the post 3. Base points for a post would be weighted based on how long the person has been a member and either a straight quality rating for that member set by the Admin or a calculated rating based on 1 and 2 above. 4. Quality of the post based off positive/negative ratio of keywords. This one is technically more challenging and potentially may impact performance. 5. Size Theres my couple of cents worth. ------------- Thomas Demond Editor http://forums.horsenewsnetwork.com - Horse News Network Forums |
Posted By: ThomasD
Date Posted: 06 May 2007 at 12:46am
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I have gotten started back on this full boar. I am utilizing jeffdaro's rating system for posts. I decided in order to get further with this that I would take the basic design plan I have at the moment and just jump in and just work on doing the new topic post first. Once I see what it takes to get that done then I will decide if I just need to do this myself or if I should put up some specific requests for other developers.
------------- Thomas Demond Editor http://forums.horsenewsnetwork.com - Horse News Network Forums |
Posted By: ThomasD
Date Posted: 06 May 2007 at 3:23am
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Wanted to get some feedback from the group on the way I am implementing this. I am using a 2 number system, one represents the author score derived from jeffdaro's system and the second is a pure points total. The author score deals with the quality of the posts and the points total would be just that, an accumulation of points. So what do people think of this? Here are the particular files I have made changes to so far, this doesn't include the database changes I made for jeffdaro's system. {root} default.asp (ln 5 <!--#include file="functions/functions_points.asp" -->) [database] database_connection.asp (rsPoints recordset) [includes] global_variables_inc.asp (new variables) navigation_buttons_inc.asp (to display the users score/points) [functions] functions_points.asp (new) functions_member_API.asp (bug fix) ------------- Thomas Demond Editor http://forums.horsenewsnetwork.com - Horse News Network Forums |
Posted By: ThomasD
Date Posted: 06 May 2007 at 6:09pm
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functions_points.asp I created a functions script that uses either inline sql or a stored procedure to return the values for the author score and total points. I am figuring most people do not have access or are not comfortable creating stored procedures. I will have to bundle this and zip it up. ------------- Thomas Demond Editor http://forums.horsenewsnetwork.com - Horse News Network Forums |
Posted By: Praveen
Date Posted: 06 May 2007 at 7:21pm
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OK Guys.. Lets finalise.. What shall we do now? Integrate with each of the languages and databases?? Just upload the changed files in a zip file and post the link here??? Will it be ok??? -------------
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Posted By: ThomasD
Date Posted: 06 May 2007 at 10:53pm
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I have a basic report worked out and now I am having to go back through and create the queries to populate the points table for all the data that is already in my forum database. I am still a bit away from an initial beta package, and I will probably need some help writing this as a packaged mod script that someone will be able to just run and it create everything for them.
------------- Thomas Demond Editor http://forums.horsenewsnetwork.com - Horse News Network Forums |
Posted By: Praveen
Date Posted: 07 May 2007 at 5:28pm
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OK when can we get the final masterpiece???? -------------
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Posted By: ThomasD
Date Posted: 08 May 2007 at 4:25am
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Oh, that is so funny. I am just hoping for something respectable. I may just drop the different pieces out somewhere for people to compile.
------------- Thomas Demond Editor http://forums.horsenewsnetwork.com - Horse News Network Forums |
Posted By: ThomasD
Date Posted: 10 May 2007 at 9:38pm
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Found a bug during testing that I wanted to point out because I think others might run across this. If you are making modifications to navigation_buttons_inc.asp and include code that makes SQL calls it will fail for some pages because the closeDatabase() call is made prior to the include for the navigation. Move it to the end of the page to solve this issue. I found this problem of course because I am putting the users score and total points display in the navigation. I would really like to actually store this once as a variable and update the variable only when the user has completed an action that is going to change their score/points. ------------- Thomas Demond Editor http://forums.horsenewsnetwork.com - Horse News Network Forums |
Posted By: Praveen
Date Posted: 11 May 2007 at 6:49pm
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Oh so have you fixed the problem?? -------------
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Posted By: ThomasD
Date Posted: 12 May 2007 at 4:56pm
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Yes, got that problem fixed. Did some more work and put a referral system in as well.
------------- Thomas Demond Editor http://forums.horsenewsnetwork.com - Horse News Network Forums |
Posted By: Praveen
Date Posted: 12 May 2007 at 4:59pm
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Great -------------
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Posted By: Ali Bilgrami
Date Posted: 13 May 2007 at 8:17am
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will the points and scores be visible in forum_posts.asp and the profile? becuz as for me im not using the standard navigation of WWF... ------------- Lets! |
Posted By: Praveen
Date Posted: 13 May 2007 at 5:14pm
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Oh, in that case let us create a field inside the two pages along with the others. -------------
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Posted By: ThomasD
Date Posted: 15 May 2007 at 3:30am
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Actually I was putting them in the standard navigation bar so that it was visible on all pages. Shouldn't be hard for someone to port them to another location though.
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