[XB] Rating Competition Threads 2.1.0

Create XenForo post rating competitions where members score entries on a 10-point scale and the highest-rated posts become winners.

Use the dedicated competition forum and thread type, or enable rating competitions in regular discussion forums. Configure entry eligibility, voting visibility, schedules, ranking, and winner selection for each competition.

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Features:​

Competition Setup​

• Competition Forum & Thread Type: Run dedicated rating competitions with the first post pinned above the entries.
• Discussion Forum Support: Make the competition thread type available in regular discussion forums.
• Forum Defaults: Set default competition values per forum and prevent thread creators from changing selected settings.
• Winner Count: Choose how many top-ranked posts are displayed as winners after voting closes.

Entries & Voting​

• 10-Point Post Ratings: Eligible members can score competition entries from 1 to 10.
• Forum Rating Controls: Choose a dropdown, clickable numeric scale, or five-star control with half-step precision for each forum.
• Jury Voting: Run member voting, jury-only voting, or combined voting with a configurable jury vote weight and per-competition jury members.
• Score Display: Rank entries by total score or display their average rating with configurable decimal precision.
• Rating Visibility: Keep ratings restricted or display them publicly when the viewer has the appropriate permission.
• Hidden Intermediate Results: Hide scores, vote counts, voter details, positions, and rating-based sorting until voting closes while keeping each member's own selection visible.
• Rating Changes: Allow members to update their rating within a configurable time limit and optionally remove it by selecting an empty value.
• Entry Whitelist: Restrict voting to approved posts, allow manual entry management, automatically include the thread starter's post, or automatically approve a configured number of replies.
• Entry Limits: Limit the total number of approved entries and how many approved replies each member may submit.

Scheduling & Results​

• Flexible Voting Start: Start voting immediately, at a specific date and time, after a relative delay, or after a configured number of replies.
• Flexible Voting End: Close voting immediately, at a specific date and time, after a relative period, after voting starts, or after a configured number of replies.
• Reply-Based Scheduling: Count all replies or only approved competition entries when starting or closing voting by reply count.
• Competition Progress: Show the submissions, voting, and results stages with a live countdown to scheduled voting milestones.
• Moderator Phase Controls: Start, pause, resume, close, reopen, or rebuild a competition from the thread tools menu. Pausing preserves remaining time and reply-based thresholds.
• Competition Notifications: Notify the thread starter, participants, and thread watchers when voting starts, is closing soon, or has ended, with a dedicated alert for winners.
• Active Competitions Widget: Display currently open competitions in native Simple or Standard XenForo widget layouts, with forum filtering and compact entry, rating, and deadline information.
• Rating-Based Sorting: Let viewers sort posts by rating score or make rating score the default order for the thread.
• Winner Display: Highlight the top entries in a dedicated winners block when the competition closes.
• Result History: Preserve immutable results across reopenings and moderator corrections, including the ranking rules and scores used for each revision.
• Tie-Break Rules: Resolve equal scores by rating count or entry date, or allow fully tied entries to share the same winning position.

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Permissions:​

• Create Competition Threads: Control who can start rating competitions in each forum.
• Rate Entries: Control who can rate posts and whether members may rate their own entries.
• View Ratings: Separately control access to public ratings and unrestricted rating visibility.
• Change Ratings: Set how long members may change an existing rating.
• Manage Competition Settings: Allow trusted users to edit settings that are locked by the forum configuration.
• Manage Competition Jury: Restrict jury and vote-weight changes after voting starts to trusted moderators.
• Manage Competition Phases: Control which moderators may manually change the competition lifecycle.
• Manage Approved Entries: Control who may approve their own posts, approve any post, or bypass entry limits.

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Requirements:​

• XenForo 2.3.0+

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Useful for:​

• Creative Contests: Rank artwork, screenshots, designs, writing, or other member submissions.
• Photo Competitions: Collect scored photo entries and automatically highlight the winners.
• Community Challenges: Run recurring challenges with controlled entry and voting periods.
• Judged Submissions: Give selected user groups permission to score entries while controlling when results become visible.

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FAQ:​

• Can a competition start or end automatically?
  Yes. Voting can follow a fixed date, a relative delay, or a reply threshold, and closing can also be calculated from the voting start time.
• Can entries be approved before members rate them?
  Yes. Whitelist mode limits voting to approved posts and supports manual approval, automatic approval, and per-competition entry limits.
• What happens when entries have the same score?
  Administrators can allow shared positions or use rating count, earliest entry, or latest entry as the tie-break rule.

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Screenshots:​

Forum View​

Thread View​

Thread Configuration​

Permissions​

Admin Control Panel​

Style Properties​