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2019 is here! And with the new year, as usual, comes a new iteration of Community Promotion Ads! Let’s refresh these for the coming year :)

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 articles or findings for the curious
  • cool Science Fiction or Fantasy events/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.

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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Worldbuilding Stack Exchange

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    Copied from last year. And the year before that. Image credit goes to DaaaahWhoosh.
    – HDE 226868
    Commented Jan 23, 2019 at 17:54
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    I'm kinda indifferent on this one. Maybe something a little less cartoony for 2019 would be nice, but I don't know what y'all on Worldbuilding.SE think.
    – Kevin
    Commented Jan 26, 2019 at 2:13
  • Nice. I was going to repost this earlier, but wasn't sure if you guys had designed a new one for 2019.
    – Rand al'Thor Mod
    Commented Jan 26, 2019 at 9:39
  • I just saw this one on another site and came here to say I LOVE IT
    – Dubukay
    Commented Jul 31, 2019 at 17:54
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There's a Blog?

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    Shamelessly copied from last year's post by Edlothiad
    – TheLethalCarrot Mod
    Commented Jan 23, 2019 at 12:25
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    We have a blog?
    – Jenayah
    Commented Jan 23, 2019 at 12:28
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    @Jenayah is it a serious question O.o Commented Jan 23, 2019 at 12:51
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    @DuckyMomo It is but a meme
    – Jenayah
    Commented Jan 23, 2019 at 12:58
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    hmmmmm....... ok Commented Jan 23, 2019 at 13:30
  • I love how this has survived
    – AncientSwordRage Mod
    Commented Feb 25, 2020 at 11:53
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Love reading? Check out Literature SE!

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    Copied from 2017; ad designed by CreationEdge.
    – Rand al'Thor Mod
    Commented Jan 23, 2019 at 12:21
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Movies & TV Stack Exchange

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Memory Alpha: The most definitive, accurate, and accessible encyclopedia and reference for everything related to Star Trek

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    Updated version from the ad that's been running for the last few years, now with the site's new logo and an altered slogan
    – Valorum
    Commented Jan 26, 2019 at 16:42
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    OK, you win. This is a lot nicer than last year's.
    – Kevin
    Commented Jan 26, 2019 at 18:17
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Writing.SE

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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
    – JNat StaffMod
    Commented Jan 23, 2019 at 12:04
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