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Q: Community Promotion Ads - Let's advertise this site!

We recently entered public beta, so we need to get word out to the rest of Stack Exchange about Open Source Stack Exchange. One of the best ways of doing this is with Community Promotion Ads. Here is part of the canonical spiel given on meta posts on graduated sites where we submit our ads for v...

Adam

01:49

Ah, the ad thread. Awesome.

@Zizouz212 Mind if I share some constructive criticism of your ad?

Zizouz212

Yeah, what's up?

@Adam How can I help you?

@Adam I bow down before you. How may I assist?

Adam

When I glanced at your ad, at first I wasn't able to tell there was a computer monitor in the background.

Zizouz212

Ah, that. It was more intended as an example :)

You can down vote it to oblivion if you would like :)

Adam

Oh okay. Nevermind me then 8-)

Zizouz212

Oh lol

Adam

01:59

It did give me an idea similar to it though. Hope you don't mind. :)

Zizouz212

It's all good. Can't wait to see it!

Cfinley

02:29

@Zizouz212 The first sentence of your question has Open Source SE, might want to change that to the right site :)

tomshardware.com/answers/id-2074665/…

Adam

Hah I was wondering why it said that.

Someone needs to develop Copy/Paste 2.0 already because Copy/Paste 1.0 lets too many people down.

Andy

03:38

@Zizouz212, I can't edit your community ads post and you preempted the one I was preparing. Can you change a few things on your post?

Change:

I invite everyone to submit ideas for our ad as answers, following the above guidelines.

To:

Normally, these ads would link to the main site, but we could link to a specific tag or even individual questions.

Let's use this question to collect ad designs that we can vote upon as a community and then submit to the relevant site(s). Please use one answer per design and indicate which site (or sites) you feel it'd fit best on, if is targeting a specific site.

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Also, keep the link to my previous post, but summarize the results so far:

Our suggested sites, so far, are:

 - [Ask Different](apple.stackexchange.com) - Has a [hardware-recommendation](apple.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/…) tag
 - [Ask Ubuntu](askubuntu.com) - Has a [hardware-recommendation](askubuntu.com/questions/tagged/hardware-recommendation) tag
 - [Graphic Design](graphicdesign.stackexchange.com) - Has a [hardware-recommendation](graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/…) tag

@Adam, I like your ad, but I'm not sure if "StackExchange" is appropriate any more.

Blog post: blog.stackoverflow.com/2015/09/… (edited, because the animated gif was bothering me)

And, it feels weird to say "Stack Overflow" when the ad will be anywhere but there

Could it just be a more general "the internet"?

Adam

04:29

@Andy Completely forgot about that. It does feel pretty weird to think of Stack Overflow as the whole network. I'll reword it.

And once again I run into the difficult question of whether to capitalize "internet."

Gilles

08:06

@Andy “Stack Exchange” is correct when referring to the network of Q&A sites. What changed is the name of the company.

ArtOfCode

14:33

And, finally, @Adam has overtaken me on rep.

I did get a "top new user" email, though.

Adam

15:38

@ArtOfCode Almost to 1000 rep. The site needs us.

ArtOfCode

@Adam Yep. I'll be there soon.

Currently working on a community ad, though.

Precisely 14 rep away from it.

Adam

16:03

Looking forward to some more ads.

enderland

@Adam never thought I'd see that phrase

Adam

@ArtOfCode Is yours aimed at a certain site?

@enderland Which phrase?

ArtOfCode

@Adam Not particularly, no

enderland

@Adam "want more ads"

Adam

Oh haha

This is probably the only time I'd ever say that.

Andy

17:17

I think it might be good to explain why product recommendations in the form, "X or Y?" are basically XY questions and not good fits and should be rewritten, "given constraints X/Y what is a good tool to do X?" — enderland yesterday

Anyone have ideas on what that section should look like? I'm not in a word smithing mood right now (I've been writing documentation all morning)

Adam

17:40

@Andy I'll type something up later today if no one else already has by then.

Andy

19:19

John (not pinging you here because I did it three times already on meta), I like your ad.

JohnB

thanks!

and yes, as far as I'm aware the retina requirements are just 200%

Adam

20:15

@JohnB Great ad. It's good that someone has the more general ads covered.

All I've been doing is thinking of comedic IT jokes for specific components.

JohnB

I like 'em

Undo

20:36

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A: Community Promotion Ads - Let's advertise this site!

It's a start. All the little icons are public domain (CC0) from The Noun Project. Icons I either used or thought about using: https://thenounproject.com/term/electronic/4425/ https://thenounproject.com/term/electronic/4427/ https://thenounproject.com/term/electronic/17471/ https://thenounproj...

Can't say I'm not proud of this :)

Zizouz212

@Undo I'm in love.

Undo

Is there an easy way to post a GIMP file?

Ideally I want to not put it on my server

Zizouz212

What's a GIMP file?

Image format I assume...

Undo

.xcf?

Poor man's .ps / .ai

Zizouz212

Hmm, was the image a gimp?

Undo

20:39

JohnB

It looks nice @Undo

only recommendation I would make is to reverse that no-name-brand pocket console gaming system

Zizouz212

ER ME GUDDDD!!! GAME BOY!!!!!!!!

Undo

@JohnB Not sure I like it as much that way

Feels backwardsish

JohnB

like that I mean

Undo

Ohhh

Lemme try that

JohnB

20:42

I can upload the SVG if you'd like

Zizouz212

Oh yeah, it is reverse...

Undo

@JohnB nah, I like trying to make GIMP do things

JohnB

hehe ok

Undo

bah

too hard. I'd take an svg :P

JohnB

np :)

ok I did not expect that to one-box

Undo

20:44

Yaaay thank you :)

Zizouz212

@JohnB What program is that?

JohnB

Illustrator

Undo

@Zizouz212 illustrator

Zizouz212

Cool. AI makes sense then :)

Undo

Much better. Thanks @JohnB :)

JohnB

20:48

awesome!

I deal with a lot of screen printing and am quick to notice artwork that should be reversed :)

maybe inverted would be a better term for that

Adam

One suggestion only because I'm a huge typography critic: enlarge the URL at the bottom to match the width of "Hardware Recommendations."

Zizouz212

@Adam Nah, the url doesn't need to be prominent, IMO. Site name does, as that is how people refer to it

Adam

21:05

We're talking maybe 10px difference in width here.

Undo

21:17

I'd personally be inclined to leave it smaller - this will only be shown in a web context, where clicking on it goes to the site. If we were making a print version, I'd definitely agree with you.

Hardware Recommendations Meta

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Q: Intel "Inside everywhere"

Unusual question came up on our website: TEMPEST proof PC / Notebook? What do you think about questions like this? Can it be taken seriously?

discussion

Zizouz212

Hmmm... Still waiting for my 50 rep to come in on Area 51 :/

Adam

I got mine just now.

Zizouz212

I didn't -_-

This is outrageous. I need to complain.

Adam

Roooooobeeeeerrrrttttttttt

Zizouz212

21:31

Time. To go to meta.

Cfinley

I got mine as well

ArtOfCode

I haven't checked.

Undo

I've gotten mine... but seriously @Ziz, what do you think you'll do with your Area 15 rep? :P

Zizouz212

I don't know what Area 15 is

Undo

I've got 2.4k of the stuff, and it's not all that much different

ArtOfCode

21:37

Nope, not yet

Zizouz212

I just want an extra free commitment

That's basically all that I want

ArtOfCode

Someone's still trying to DOS me.

Zizouz212

DOS? Why?

How?

Adam

Do we have a security breach?

Undo

@ArtOfCode Oh boy, that sounds fun

Who'd you make mad this time?

Adam

21:42

We're going to DEFCON 1, ladies and gentlemen.

ArtOfCode

I have an idea. Not that I'd ever put names on it, of course.

Zizouz212

Oh dear, I think I know who you're thinking

ArtOfCode

They've been at it all day. It's not working, I've firewalled 'em.

@Zizouz212 Yep. Yes you do.

Zizouz212

Oh god.

ArtOfCode

Allow me to quote from my router log.

Firewall: packet drop. 192.168.0.20(52491) --> 216.58.208.46(443), Protocol TCP.
Thursday, Oct 01,2015 21:22:46
Firewall: packet drop. 192.168.0.20(52490) --> 216.58.208.46(443), Protocol TCP.
Thursday, Oct 01,2015 21:22:46
Firewall: packet drop. 192.168.0.20(52480) --> 216.58.208.46(443), Protocol TCP.
Thursday, Oct 01,2015 21:22:43
Firewall: packet drop. 192.168.0.20(52479) --> 216.58.208.46(443), Protocol TCP.
Thursday, Oct 01,2015 21:22:43
Firewall: packet drop. 192.168.0.20(52478) --> 216.58.208.46(443), Protocol TCP.

Adam

21:45

If it's someone on SE, gather info and report them.

Zizouz212

UDP?

Well, more proof it could be a DOS then

ArtOfCode

@Adam Already looking into that. Mod tools are useful.

Adam

22:47

I had a pretty great ad design going and then Photoshop decided to merge all the layers, lock it, and not let me save or undo anything.

Undo

23:32

@belford, is it still unclear? How to unput from hold? — intelinside 2 hours ago

All they did was add 'etc' to their question and post a comment about how no one believes in privacy.

wait, I got the timeline mixed up. It was just the comment.

Adam

That post is 100% not needed in my opinion.

Undo

@Adam I'd be inclined to just let the roomba get it in a week or two

If we had our own mods, I'd ask them to kill it. But no need bothering a CM about it

Adam

@Undo True. But now we have a clear example of what not to ask.

Undo

That's a decent point

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