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It is a bit late into this new year, being that we're already in the second month, but we are now cycling the Community Promotion Ads for 2017!

What are Community Promotion Ads?

Community Promotion Ads are community-vetted advertisements that will show up on the main site, in the right sidebar. The purpose of this question is the vetting process. Images of the advertisements are provided, and community voting will enable the advertisements to be shown.

Why do we have Community Promotion Ads?

This is a method for the community to control what gets promoted to visitors on the site. For example, you might promote the following things:

  • the site's twitter account
  • interesting blogs, websites, and other language learning resources
  • conferences, meetups, or other events
  • anything else your community would genuinely be interested in

The goal 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.

Why do we reset the ads every year?

Some services will maintain usefulness over the years, while other things will wane to allow for new faces to show up. Resetting the ads every year helps accommodate this, and allows old ads that have served their purpose to be cycled out for fresher ads for newer things. This helps keep the material in the ads relevant to not just the subject matter of the community, but to the current status of the community. We reset the ads once a year, every December.

The community promotion ads have no restrictions against reposting an ad from a previous cycle. If a particular service or ad is very valuable to the community and will continue to be so, it is a good idea to repost it. It may be helpful to give it a new face in the process, so as to prevent the imagery of the ad from getting stale after a year of exposure.

How does it work?

The answers you post to this question must conform to the following rules, or they will be ignored.

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

    [![Tagline to show on mouseover][1]][2]

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

    Please do not add anything else to the body of the post. If you want to discuss something, do it in the comments.

  2. The question must always be tagged with the magic tag. In addition to enabling the functionality of the advertisements, this tag also pre-fills the answer form with the above required form.

Image requirements

  • The image that you create must be 300 x 250 pixels, or double that if high DPI.
  • 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
  • If the background of the image is white or partially white, there must be a 1px border (2px if high DPI) surrounding it.

Score Threshold

There is a minimum score threshold an answer must meet (currently 6) before it will be shown on the main site.

You can check out the ads that have met the threshold with basic click stats here.

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Language Learning Stack Exchange

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    I like this ad, but I wish you could use a different font, particularly for the blue text near the bottom. The tops and bottoms of the letters don't line up, and I get distracted while trying to read it.
    – user230
    Commented Feb 4, 2017 at 1:21
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    @snailplane thanks for the feedback! I'll edit it to improve it in a few hours.
    – fi12
    Commented Feb 4, 2017 at 1:25
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    You should use Hatchet's art below - this ad is really pretty ugly.
    – curiousdannii
    Commented Jul 22, 2017 at 6:58
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Language Learning Stack Exchange

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Support Urdu Language on Area 51 Stack Exchange!

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    Since many users on the site come from different backgrounds, I'm pretty sure this will appeal to users who are fluent in, or learning the Urdu language. Part of the key to a proposal's success, especially if the topic is new to the network, is that it attracts users from everywhere. I hope English Language Learners will allow this ad to be displayed to help support the proposal.
    – Zizouz212
    Commented Aug 3, 2017 at 6:31
  • The image is bigger than it should. See the images used in the other answers.
    – avpaderno
    Commented Aug 6, 2017 at 11:04
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    @kiamlaluno it's supposed to be 300 x 250, or double that if high DPI. So the image size is okay.
    – Zizouz212
    Commented Aug 6, 2017 at 15:42
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    Great Image , +1
    – sudias
    Commented Aug 12, 2017 at 8:03
  • It is outdated. Should be deleted.
    – Nouman
    Commented Sep 19, 2018 at 7:50
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Help this community grow -- follow us on twitter!

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    This is a demonstration post to indicate how this should look when an ad is posted. It also doubles as your twitter ad, but it's up to you if you wish to promote it by voting
    – Grace Note StaffMod
    Commented Feb 2, 2017 at 13:57
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Support the Interpersonal Skills site proposal

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  • \(O.0)? Why would it be downvoted? Some men just want to watch the world burn.
    – NVZ
    Commented Jul 23, 2017 at 15:58
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    Proposals for community ads generally need to make sense because they need to be connected to the site somehow. It's very unlikely to get a completely-unrelated site's ad approved without an in-depth comment explaining why someone should support it.
    – Catija
    Commented Jul 24, 2017 at 20:48
  • I thought I had posted such a comment: This site is for lots of those "What should I say in this situation?" questions which are off-topic here.
    – curiousdannii
    Commented Jul 24, 2017 at 21:17
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    @curiousdannii "what should I say" isn't really a good type of question for SE's model.
    – Catija
    Commented Jul 25, 2017 at 14:25

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