How do i get the discussion stats box on my vanilla site?

mensa

Hi All I'm new here, loving Vanilla so far but I cant seem to find the plugin / option to have the small stat box on each discussion.

Any help would be great.

smoigecom

You have to install the Voting plugin. http://vanillaforums.org/addon/voting-plugin

mensa

e.g. follows, views, comments

mensa

Thanks for your help, I will try it later.

Also, is spam common with vanilla? Its my first discussion here and It has already been spammed.

luc

Nope, since StopForumSpam has been enabled here (1 or 2 months ago), it's the first time IIRC.
But when it's a human, using VPN or such (at least new ip's not already listed as spammy), there's not much you can do.

mensa

cool, I feel really special now! lol
:-)

mensa

Ok, Thanks @smoigecom the plugin works great.

but...

I have noticed that on this install of vanilla we get the follows, views, comments boxes but the voting is disabled. How would I go about doing this?

Thanks again

luc

It's using the QnA plugin, and some specific CSS to display those boxes as it was before moving from voting to QnA.

mensa

Thanks again @luc. My forum is more for discussion rather than help so I think I will stick with the voting plugin and play with the css.

Cheers

dleffler

I'm also assuming you added some modified code from the Voting plugin (class.voting.plugin.php->Base_BeforeDiscussionContent_Handler method) into the QnA class.qna.plugin.php?