I have a few questions about voting for cards:

> Usually when I display a card, I see a link to be able to vote for that card as one of the best I've seen, but sometimes that option does not appear. Why is that? Do you need to have AG status or a minimum membership level to have your card eligible to be voted on?

> I've found the place where cards with the most votes can be viewed by category, but I haven't found a way to find out how many votes a particular card has received without voting for it myself and viewing that information in a pop-up window. Is there any other way to view this voting data?

> How can a person find out if his own card has received any votes?

I've tried to find answers in the FAQ's and with the forum search engine, but am not having any luck. Thanks for your help.

73 de Gary - AC6EG

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AC6EG Gary DeFeyter

Members must be Bronze or above to have their designs eligible for voting.

Cards that have received 10 or more votes will show up in the Card favorites screen: http://www.eqsl.cc/qslcard/CardFavorites.cfm Clicking on any of the category links will show the cards in that category and how many votes they have received.

No way to know how many your own has received until it gets enough to show up on that page.

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73, Dave - VA3KAB

Thanks Dave for that useful information. Do you happen to know what happens to the vote count if a change is made to the card design? Does the vote count drop to zero or does it remain the same and follow the call sign? I ask that because when I looked at the "Artistic Nudes" category, only one of the three cards actually fits that category. Is that because the two non-conforming cards were changed after they received more than ten votes? How do cards wind up in the various categories in the first place?

73 de Gary - AC6EG

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AC6EG Gary DeFeyter

Vote count stays with the users account, doesn't matter if the design is changed.

There is a list that shows up at this end of cards that have received five or more votes, it is a huge list as you can imagine, thousands of entries. What we do at this end is wait until a card has 10 or more votes and then assign it a category. Once it has been assigned a category it shows up on the community list. And yes, if the user then changes his card design after it has already been assigned a category it will end up in the wrong place, but nothing we can do about that at the moment.

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73, Dave - VA3KAB

Thanks for shedding light on what is probably a little understood aspect of eQSL.cc
Adds to the fun and encourages users to put more thought into their card designs.

73 de Gary - AC6EG

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AC6EG Gary DeFeyter