Voting-Center

What is the voting-center?

The voting-center is the place where all decissions are made, starting with the structure of fotocommunity with all it's channels, new sections, projects, monthly themes up to the decission about photos entering the gallery or not.

The voting-center is one of our areas for "members-only" which means "fee-guest"- and "trial"-accounts won't be able to enter.

You can access the voting-center by clicking:

You'll receive a filtered view of the voting-center fitting your userstatus, your proposals and the votes you already did. There will only appear those votings which you can actually vote on, depending on your Credits.

Gallery Voting

Once a photo has been nominated for the gallery voting, photographers can choose between two different gallery voting processes.

1. “Open” voting means, that the title of the photo and the (nick)name of the photographer are displayed and comments are allowed during the voting phase. In addition, photographers have the option not to display the voting comments after the voting phase is over. This decision can be reversed: photographers can always choose infinitely as often as needed, to hide or unhide the comments received during voting.

2. Anonymous voting without comments. In this case neither title nor (nick)name of the photographer will be displayed and comments are not allowed during voting.

Everybody also has the option, of completely disabling his photos for voting. In this case they can´t even be suggested. Another option is to individually decide for every image, which has been proposed for the gallery.

Additional comments for gallery images - new and existing - can be surpressed. This decision can be repeated and reversed as often as one likes.

Voting proposals in a foreign language.
Only in your own language you can determine, whether a voting is anonymous or open. In all other language than your own, images that are proposed for the gallery, automatically pass the open voting.

In your preferences (http://www.fotocommunity.de/pc/account/changeaccount/1) you can adjust the different variants.

Proposing a photo

General information

Please remember that you need to be a basic-member at least to make proposals for the gallery.

Besides that the photographer whos photo you wanna propose might have checked "I want to decide individually for every picture" in his gallery settings. In this case it might take some time until your proposal goes online. (More information regarding e-mail settings and options here (http://www.fotocommunity.com/info/E-mail_settings_%26_options))

How to propose a photo

To propose a photo for the gallery-voting please do as follows:

• open the photo you want to propose

• click recommend now in the info-box under the photo

• please select the gallerysection and state a reason for your proposal

• after you clicked "confirm" a screen will your successful proposal will be confirmed or a message will be shown that states that you are not allowed to do a proposal (you are allowed to make one proposal every 14 days at fotocommunity.com)

• the proposal is done herewith and the voting for the photo starts

• the info-box under the photo states that the photo is being voted on right now:

• you can check and withdraw your proposal. To do so just click in your myPics-screen.

• you will be brought into your personal voting center where a link "my proposals" is shown in the link-bar:

• after you clicked this link your running proposals will be listed

How to withdraw a proposal

To withdraw a propasal just click withdraw proposal in the previous screen.

For security reasons you will be asked if you really want to withdraw.

Click withdraw proposal to take the photo out of the voting.

Make a vote

Voting-center overview

If you entered the voting-center all porposals you can vote on will be shown automaticly.

The oldest proposal will be shown first. You can reverse this view by clicking here:

There are several informations regarding every photo which will be explained on the example above:

shows the photo which is proposed for the gallery, its photographer, the time of upload into the community and the number of comments in the regular discussion.

describes the section where the photo was originally uploaded in while shows the section of the gallery where the photo is supposed to go into if the voting is a success.

is showing who made the proposal at what time and date, the kind of voting (both options must be fulfilled), who can vote (regarding on his earned credits) and the number of votes already given tho the photo. (Please be aware that only pros and contras count ... a skip won't be counted as a vote).

will bring you from the voting overview to the voting of this photo.

Voting

This is the screen of an actual voting after clicking in the voting-center overview:

You see the most of the information from the overview and in addition to that you find the reason which was entered with the proposal.

You also see your voting options on this photo:

where pro means you want to see that photo within the gallery and contra you don't want to see it there.

skip would mean that you don't want to vote on this photo and maybe come back later. A skip won't be counted as a vote!

After you made your vote you will automaticly be brought to the voting screen of the next photo you didn't vote on 'til now.

Results

After 48 hours and 100 pro/contra votes the voting is finished and the photo will enter the gallery or not. (If there are 50 pros and 50 contras the 101st vote will decide).

If the photo entered the gallery the referring gallery-section will be added into the photos information:

If the photo didn't earn enough pros and the voting failed the informaiton will show:

You can check the latest voting results in the voting history:

Enter the voting center by clicking and click "History" in the next screen:

The voting history gives you some information about the latest voting events. You can see gallery polls, name changes, photo deactivations and the referring proposer as well as the results.