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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:

  • the site's twitter account
  • useful tools or resources for physics research
  • interesting articles or findings for the curious
  • 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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arXiv.org -- open access to over 800 000 e-prints

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Is it really still necessary to promote arXiv.org? – Claudius Dec 10 '12 at 16:22
@Claudius: If you don't think so, downvote the proposal... :) – Manishearth♦ Dec 10 '12 at 16:26
Don’t worry, I did :) – Claudius Dec 10 '12 at 16:26
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@Claudius it was never necessary to promote arXiv.org. They get plenty of traffic from established researchers already. That's not why the ad was here. It's here to give people who wouldn't already know about it (non-researchers) a window into this important pillar of the research community. – David Zaslavsky♦ Dec 16 '12 at 7:10
why don't you advertise BOINC instead? boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php It would sure be useful for scientific progress. (Though I personally dislike the SETI program, there are just so many others to choose instead) – Raindrop Jan 16 at 22:37
@Raindrop: If you feel so, just make an ad and post it :) – Manishearth♦ Jan 17 at 7:23
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Chemistry - Stack Exchange

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I may get this one revamped later :) – Manishearth♦ Dec 10 '12 at 15:19
I really like this one because it looks like some kind of jelly donut :) It's one of the few "ads" that has ever caught my attention. (I guess it'd be a benzene donut actually...) – Nick Apr 15 at 0:13
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SciFi & Fantasy

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I do like this one – David Zaslavsky♦ Dec 16 '12 at 3:46
Thank you muchly :) – OghmaOsiris Dec 16 '12 at 6:56
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please put a tiny text maybe at the bottom right of the picture saying 'scifi stackexchange'... – Raindrop Jan 16 at 22:39
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Space Exploration and Technology

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It's in the commit phase now. – AlanSE Dec 11 '12 at 2:02
It's still a proposal of sorts, until it hits the beta phase. – PearsonArtPhoto Dec 11 '12 at 2:03
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writeLaTeX.com - great for explaining physics, and works on your iPad too!

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This is an ad from TeX SX, which may also be useful here and on Math SX for a couple of reasons: you can use it to collaborate in real time to help explain physics (especially when there's maths involved), and secondly, it is a great option for working through problems on an iPad or other tablet (for which there are limited alternatives). Happy to let the community vote decide - I'm one of the developers of writeLaTeX, so any feedback appreciated, thanks. – John Hammersley Jan 24 at 19:11
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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. – Grace Note♦ Dec 10 '12 at 15:18
@GraceNote: I'll probably revamp the image later. My graphics design skill aren't that great :S. Twitter is a good way to promote the site--stuff propagates fast once initiated. – Manishearth♦ Dec 10 '12 at 15:21
And that was a stock comment that I include every time as I include our default Twitter ad, haha, not a criticism or anything. I just had to tack it on your posting since you had already posted it. – Grace Note♦ Dec 10 '12 at 15:22
@GraceNote: You have a stock comment to reply to a stock post? Do you have a boilerplate for everything? :P – Manishearth♦ Dec 10 '12 at 15:23
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If I told you that the previous comment and this one were pre-written just for this situation, I'm not sure you'd believe me. – Grace Note♦ Dec 10 '12 at 15:24
omg Grace Note is psychic :-) – David Zaslavsky♦ Dec 16 '12 at 7:04
Seriously though: for people who are considering voting on this, I would note that a number of people are not happy with the behavior of the official site-affiliated Twitter accounts. – David Zaslavsky♦ Dec 16 '12 at 7:08

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