[SOC] Is EQSL purposely trying to upset their user base?

[Quikhooligan]

On 10/21/2023 09:01, F5PBL - Claude wrote:

> Quoting rule 10a (eWAS Award): "The Award Master for this award may
> determine at his sole discretion whether the eQSLs received are
> adequately matched by OUTGOING eQSLs sent by the applicant to confirm
> the credits applied for. A large number of unconfirmed eQSLs is against
> the spirit of the eQSL system and should be fixed by uploading your
> entire log, or by carefully confirming each valid incoming eQSL and
> rejecting each eQSL that does not match your log!"
> 
> In the past, it was possible to get credits (via received eQSL) for QSOs
> which were not in your log (outgoing eQSLs).
> I have been in that case (QSO not in my log for whatever reason but
> received eQSL from the other station nevertheless).
> So, my understanding of this new rule is: you will get credit for QSOs
> if and only if the said QSO is in both logs (yours and the other
> station's).
> If the QSO is already in your log and you have already sent an eQSL for
> it, then credit is granted as soon as you have received the other
> station's eQSL.
> 
> You may want to contact the award manager (JI3KDH or VA3KAB as
> alternate) for your particular situation which looks a bit weird if you
> have indeed lost some credits for already confirmed contacts.

All I know is that I have been religiously confirming any incoming QSOs
that were in my log and rejecting any that weren't in my log.  Doing it
that way, over all these years, I had 46 credits toward the 50 needed.
Now the web site shows all those credits greyed out and tells me to
reconfirm due to rule 10a.

Perhaps they are greyed out because without a current paid membership I
am not eligible to apply for the award?  In which case the web site is
misleading me to reconfirm unnecessarily. Dumb web site thinks all
greyed out contacts need to be confirmed due to rule 10a.

I'll still take the effort to confirm my valid QSOs like I always have,
but I'm giving up on worrying if the eQSLs have any validity for myself
or the other guy.