- Community Promotion Ads (all non-SO sites)
The goal of this initiative is for future visitors to find out about the stuff your community deems important. This also serves as a way to promote information and resources that are relevant to your own community's interests, both for those already in the community and those yet to join.
The revised format will instead rely on an open collection period, at the end of which a "snapshot" of the ads that make the cut will be collected so they're run during the next year. We're proposing a single "submission season" at the beginning of the year, that runs for 1 month across all the sites where the initiative is run, after which all the posts with a minimum score of 6 will be selected and run for the coming year.
I regularly use community ads for time-bound events, launching the new ad when the event is announced or begins, and deleting the ad when the event ends. The ads have been well-received by the community. For example, one such ad currently has the second-highest number of clicks per day for the community in question.
Examples of such time-bound uses (dear reader: feel free to add to this list!):
- https://codegolf.meta.stackexchange.com/a/18915/43319APL Problem Solving Competition 2021 (Code Golf)
- https://codegolf.meta.stackexchange.com/a/20826/43319Dyalog APL Seeds 2021 (Code Golf)
- https://judaism.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5306/3073Stay home, save lives (Mi Yodeya)
- https://biology.meta.stackexchange.com/a/4071/13215TUG 19 (TEX, see edit history)
- https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/a/8075Biology moderator election 2019, 2017 (Biology)
- WHO COVID-19 (Biology)
This new system seems to prevent this usage. Please confirm that you want to get rid of my usage.
