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As it is December 2012, we are now going to reset our Community Promotion Ads for the new 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:

  • cool server utilities
  • the site's twitter account
  • script packs or power tools
  • 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.

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 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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Reset to default
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The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear...

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  • What does REDFINED mean?
    – toppledwagon
    Commented Jun 26, 2013 at 17:19
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    Months. MONTHS! And nobody tells me....
    – Chris S Mod
    Commented Jun 26, 2013 at 18:18
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FreeBSD - more than Creation

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Open Source Host-based Intrusion Detection System

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If your data is important to you, back it up!

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  • If anyone wants to work on this image feel free - Gimp is being its usually gimp-y self (I wanted a black background, but apparently I NO CAN HAS without artifacts)
    – voretaq7 Mod
    Commented Dec 10, 2012 at 17:21
  • It was a lot quality JPEG, wasn't it?
    – Chris S Mod
    Commented Dec 10, 2012 at 21:11
  • @ChrisS Yup. Both images. Were the bat's wings your first clue?
    – voretaq7 Mod
    Commented Dec 10, 2012 at 21:36
  • When I did a Color->Map->Color Exchange White to Black and dialed up the threashold, instead of neatly blending the colors I get aliased artifacts galore. Classic symptom of crappy JPEGs.
    – Chris S Mod
    Commented Dec 10, 2012 at 21:44
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    Shouldn't it say OS X instead of Mac?
    – MDMarra
    Commented Dec 11, 2012 at 12:53
  • @MDMarra Probably, but I used their official tagline from bacula.org
    – voretaq7 Mod
    Commented Dec 11, 2012 at 16:06
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lighttpd: fly light

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Prioritize. Save time. Stay focused.

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Enterprise-class Linux

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Barman - Backup and Recovery Manager for PostgreSQL

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    You may want to add this to Database Administrators's community promotion ads too - there's a decent Postgres contingent over there.
    – voretaq7 Mod
    Commented Dec 11, 2012 at 20:30
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Configuration Management made easy

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  • This was my introduction to Rudder. Glad I now know about it. Good, simple Ad.
    – Stefan Lasiewski
    Commented Jan 8, 2013 at 1:47
  • I'm glad that it helps
    – Nicolas Charles
    Commented Mar 8, 2013 at 17:41
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Let us serve your Bootstrap

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    The ad should give a sense of what the product does. I can't tell, at a glance, what BootstrapCDN does. See the Barman ad as an example... it's very clear that Barman is a backup manager for PostgresSQL.
    – Stefan Lasiewski
    Commented Dec 11, 2012 at 19:12
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    A CDN ad seems more appropriate for Webmasters than Server Fault IMHO. I dropped it on their community ads question
    – voretaq7 Mod
    Commented Dec 11, 2012 at 20:34
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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. Last cycle, y'all knocked it deep into the sea with downvotes.
    – Grace Note StaffMod
    Commented Dec 10, 2012 at 16:36
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    we have to have a "discussion" with the twitter question-selection algorithm at some point -- has it gotten any better at posting good questions?
    – voretaq7 Mod
    Commented Dec 10, 2012 at 16:45
  • @voretaq7 No, I don't think it's gotten any better.
    – Grace Note StaffMod
    Commented Dec 10, 2012 at 16:46

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