

What are Community Promotion Ads?


Why do we have Community Promotion Ads?


  • interesting blogs
  • helpful resources on the subject matter
  • cool events or conferences
  • anything else your community would genuinely be interested in


Why do we reset the ads every year?



How does it work?


  1. All answers should be in the exact form of:

       [1]: http://image-url
       [2]: http://clickthrough-url 



Image requirements

  • Must be hosted through our standard image uploader (imgur)
  • Must be GIF or PNG
  • No animated GIFs
  • Absolute limit on file size of 150 KB

Score Threshold



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    Right now the referenced basic stats is a null set, which makes voting easy, but I don't think the voting will result in actionable information. Who markets advertising? Who is responsible for proposing new ad opportunities? How does this work? – MCW Mar 5 '20 at 14:21
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    Who provides the art? Us, or the advertiser? – MCW Mar 5 '20 at 14:38
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    I'm not sure I understand your questions — the community is "responsible" for all the things you mentioned, if I got you right. Though I say "responsible" (between quotation marks) because it's completely optional if you use this space or not. Does that answer your questions? :) – JNat Mar 5 '20 at 15:37
  • I guess I just don't understand how to nominate an advertiser. If I think it would be a good idea to advertise British History Podcast, or Guns Germs & Steel, do I create my own art? Steal art from their website? Do I need their permission to advertise their goods/services? – MCW Mar 5 '20 at 17:00
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    I think a link to another site that's already doing this so we can see what both the process and the results look like could be helpful. We've been beta so long we are super new to this. – T.E.D. Mar 5 '20 at 17:03
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    Here's an example of how ads look, from last year's Worldbuilding post — hope that helps, @T.E.D. – JNat Mar 5 '20 at 17:07
  • That is very helpful - the question seems to describe commercial advertisement; the example you provide is marketing. While there is some overlap, they are very distinct. Thanks for the help – MCW Mar 5 '20 at 17:13
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    Hmmmm. If I'm grokking this, it looks like what we should be doing is making a nice pretty ad for ourselves, and trying to drop it in this meta thread on other sites' metas. – T.E.D. Mar 5 '20 at 17:14
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    That would be a good thing to do, yes, @T.E.D. — as long as it's relevant for those sites :) – JNat Mar 5 '20 at 17:15
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    Lemme know if there are other things I can help clarify, @MarkC.Wallace :) – JNat Mar 5 '20 at 17:21
  • If I understand this correctly. If the ad we endorse here is shown on our own main site: I think we need an ad for Meta-History.SE the most? – LаngLаngС Mar 5 '20 at 18:14
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    Other communities do post ads to invite users to participate on their Metas, yes, @LаngLаngС :) – JNat Mar 5 '20 at 19:44
  • Is there a limit to the number of these ads we can display or is there a rotation schedule used if more than a certain number are created and all meet your criteria? – justCal Mar 6 '20 at 18:09
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    See the comments here for some info on that, @justCal :) But there's no limit to the number of posts here, or the ads that can make it above the 6-vote threshold. – JNat Mar 6 '20 at 18:12
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    Broken how, @LаngLаngС? – JNat Mar 16 '20 at 12:59

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