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# How voting works

Players hit the "Vote" button on your server's page once every cooldown period. Each vote nudges your server up in the rankings, and votes from the past few days count more heavily than older ones, so staying active matters more than one big spike.

### **Vote cooldown**

Players can vote for the same server once every 12 hours. The cooldown resets per server, so a player voting for five different servers can do all five back to back it's only repeat votes for the same server that are limited.

### **Vote rewards**

You can offer in-game rewards to players who vote, using Votifier (below). This is entirely optional, but servers that reward voters tend to see noticeably more consistent vote counts people are more likely to come back every 12 hours if there's something in it for them.

### **Votifier support**

If you want to reward votes automatically, you'll need Votifier set up on your server. See the next section for the full walkthrough.


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