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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
  • useful tools or resources for Jewish life and learning
  • interesting in-site activities and events
  • cool events or conferences
  • 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.

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.

Image requirements

  • The image that you create must be 220 x 250 pixels
  • 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

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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  • Highest voted ads meeting the threshold (and the other technical requirements) are automatically used? Or does a human pick?
    – msh210 Mod
    Commented Dec 22, 2011 at 23:40
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    Once an ad meets the threshold it will automatically be included in the rotation.
    – Rebecca Chernoff Mod
    Commented Dec 22, 2011 at 23:41
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    See also meta.judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/560 and meta.judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/562.
    – msh210 Mod
    Commented Dec 22, 2011 at 23:51
  • what happens after February 23?
    – avi
    Commented Jan 12, 2012 at 13:09
  • @avi We'll evaluate the effectiveness of this privilege and then we'll get back to you. :)
    – Aarthi Staff
    Commented Jan 12, 2012 at 15:41
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    Quick, someone tell the guy with the Tallit shop to post an ad here!
    – avi
    Commented Jan 12, 2012 at 16:23
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    @avi, some more fitting candidates might be resources we use here, like hebrewbooks.org, chabad.org, mechon-mamre.org, etc.
    – Isaac Moses Mod
    Commented Jan 13, 2012 at 17:59
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    This still seems to be in use.
    – Naftali
    Commented Mar 22, 2012 at 20:04
  • @IsaacMoses meta.judaism.stackexchange.com/a/1331
    – msh210 Mod
    Commented Aug 8, 2012 at 21:01
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    Aarthi, @RebeccaChernoff, can there be something in quotes after the [1] or [2] URL, so it will appear onmouseover in the ad?
    – msh210 Mod
    Commented Aug 9, 2012 at 19:13

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  • This is meant to replace the old ad, whose design clashes with the new site design. Anyone who voted on the old one, please downvote it. (I'll delete that answer as soon as this one has enough votes to display om the main site.)
    – Goodbye Stack Exchange
    Commented May 9, 2012 at 19:02
  • Did some tweaking, see the change history notes.
    – Goodbye Stack Exchange
    Commented May 9, 2012 at 21:27
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    @Naftali - To reply to your comment on the old ad (which I'm deleting now), we discussed this in chat and decided to go with a new ad, rather than "steal" the votes from this one.
    – Goodbye Stack Exchange
    Commented May 10, 2012 at 22:26
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    What does our presence look like on Twitter? (I'm not there.) Are new questions auto-tweeted or something like that? I just want to know that we're sending them somewhere useful before voting. :-)
    – Monica Cellio
    Commented Dec 25, 2011 at 21:00
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    Pleasing to the eye, but it doesn't communicate anything to me.
    – yitznewton
    Commented Dec 27, 2011 at 17:56
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    It's in the same vein as the other twitter promotion ads: i.sstatic.net/Dof9P.png
    – Aarthi Staff
    Commented Dec 27, 2011 at 20:13
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    @Aarthi need a new one with the new logo.
    – Naftali
    Commented Aug 13, 2012 at 15:14
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    @Naftali Done! :)
    – Aarthi Staff
    Commented Aug 13, 2012 at 16:27
  • @Aarthi Nice! :-). Side point: it should be a new post... It is unfair to capitalize on the votes of old...
    – Naftali
    Commented Aug 13, 2012 at 16:28
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    @Naftali I'd normally agree, but in this case, the change was updating the old ad to match the new site design. :)
    – Aarthi Staff
    Commented Aug 13, 2012 at 16:57
  • @Naftali Done. ;-)
    – msh210 Mod
    Commented Aug 15, 2012 at 19:37
  • @msh210 what is done?
    – Naftali
    Commented Aug 15, 2012 at 19:45
  • @Naftali, what you proposed: a new one with the new logo. See my edit to this answer.
    – msh210 Mod
    Commented Aug 15, 2012 at 19:59
  • @msh210 I am quite confused...
    – Naftali
    Commented Aug 15, 2012 at 20:37
  • @Naftali, forget I mentioned anything.
    – msh210 Mod
    Commented Aug 15, 2012 at 21:22
  • @msh210 ... ok, but what did you change?
    – Naftali
    Commented Aug 15, 2012 at 21:33
  • The Twitter icon.
    – msh210 Mod
    Commented Aug 15, 2012 at 23:38
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  • From: meta.judaism.stackexchange.com/q/562/719
    – Naftali
    Commented Dec 27, 2011 at 16:37
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    +1 as I like it, but I think I'd like it even better if there were more of a contrast between the text in the foreground and the text in the background (as the latter distracts some from the former) (e.g., make the background more faded).
    – msh210 Mod
    Commented Dec 27, 2011 at 21:30
  • @msh210 I shall fade more. one minute ^_^
    – Naftali
    Commented Dec 27, 2011 at 21:31
  • Oh, and "Shidducim" should probably be "Shidduchim".
    – msh210 Mod
    Commented Dec 27, 2011 at 21:32
  • @msh210 ahh nice spelling catch, one sec (i fixed the fading, how is it?)
    – Naftali
    Commented Dec 27, 2011 at 21:34
  • @msh210 I fixed the spelling :-)
    – Naftali
    Commented Dec 27, 2011 at 21:35
  • I see a checkerboard pattern as part of the background. Is that just me?
    – Isaac Moses Mod
    Commented Dec 27, 2011 at 21:39
  • @IsaacMoses I think that is just you
    – Naftali
    Commented Dec 27, 2011 at 21:41
  • OK, good. I can't see imgur content at work, so I open it using pixlr.com/editor . Something must have gotten lost in translation.
    – Isaac Moses Mod
    Commented Dec 27, 2011 at 21:45
  • @IsaacMoses haha you are seeing it like that because of the transparent background ^_^. Put a white background behind it and you will see how it really looks :-D
    – Naftali
    Commented Dec 27, 2011 at 21:53
  • Naftali, do you think you ought to give it a white background of its own? On this site, it'll be backed by the "sketchy" light-blue graph paper background and may look strange.
    – Isaac Moses Mod
    Commented Dec 27, 2011 at 21:56
  • Also, some of us override CSS to get colors we can see more easily. I use reverse video; if you're using dark text I wouldn't see your ad. (I can't view the image from work either, so specific commenting/voting will wait until I get home tonight.)
    – Monica Cellio
    Commented Dec 27, 2011 at 23:03
  • Naftali: it looks good to me now! -- though I guess you should address the transparency issue raised by Monica Cellio. @IsaacMoses, I'm not seeing the sketchy background through the image.
    – msh210 Mod
    Commented Dec 27, 2011 at 23:16
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    @MonicaCellio I made it a bit lighter.
    – Naftali
    Commented Dec 28, 2011 at 15:45
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    @Naftali, I didn't say it's your fault. And anyone can propose one. There seems to be little interest, and I don't want to push it if the community's uninterested. I suggested dropping this from the lineup of ads not because it's a bad ad (it's good) but because it's advertising something that doesn't exist and shouldn't be advertised. I certainly meant no offense to you.
    – msh210 Mod
    Commented May 1, 2012 at 18:03
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    Perhaps a description in the image?
    – Double AA Mod
    Commented Aug 9, 2012 at 5:41
  • @DoubleAA, can you think of good wording?
    – msh210 Mod
    Commented Aug 9, 2012 at 19:15
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    How about a time-insensitive variation on the text they have at the top of the home page? "Over 50,000 Classical Hebrew Books for Free Download"
    – Double AA Mod
    Commented Aug 13, 2012 at 20:48

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