@IsaacMoses and anybody else working on ads: that 40k file-size limit has been upgraded to the 150k that was previously in place: meta.stackexchange.com/a/273271/162102

@IsaacMoses @Scimonster @Daniel as an ad showing the occasions for which we've produced publications (and/or the uses to which they could be put), I think the ad works. If you want to actually see the titles, that's not going to work well at that size. So -- which factor is more important?

One possibility would be to have five ad images -- a general one (this or an update to the spread-on-table layout from last year) and one for each publication, and swap in seasonal ones. So when we're not close to a covered holiday we'd run the general ad, and we'd update the image pointer throughout the year as seems appropriate. This would need to be clear to voters.

I think having some (2?) holidays depicted is enough to get people to realize it's about 'holidays' without needing to actually depict each one. They can click through and find out details.

@MonicaCellio oh, good. Thanks.

@DoubleAA we could also use images on the download page (where they land if they click), if we can do it in a way that doesn't overwhelm.

@IsaacMoses apparently we were not the only ones struggling with that limit. For that matter, I made a simple little ad for Writers -- two colors, text only -- and it was something like 29k -- really surprised me! I wondered how real graphics would fare.

@MonicaCellio these ads get an average of about 2 clicks per day. I'm not sure they're worth that much maintenance. meta.judaism.stackexchange.com/ads/display/3353

@IsaacMoses true.

@IsaacMoses All the more so we should just pick some picturesque holidays to feature (shofar, matza and menora) and be done with it.

@DoubleAA כל דאלים גבר

@MonicaCellio Could you please give me ownership of that room, so I can tinker and try different feeds? Even if I can figure out what's wrong with the one I provided, I'd probably have to replace it rather than repair it in place.

@IsaacMoses oops -- yeah, without ownership there's not a lot you can do there. Done.

@MonicaCellio Thanks

@IsaacMoses welcs. Experiment away! When you figure out what's going wrong I hope you'll share the diagnosis; I suspect I'm not the only one who wonders what the questions it's pulling have in common. :-)

@MonicaCellio I may not get that far into careful diagnosis.

Remember that heavily-downvoted question asking for rabbis to address suggested changes to Halacha to? It's getting some play on social media. One person I know posted it on Facebook, and here it is on Reddit: reddit.com/r/Judaism/comments/41ncdj/can_anyone_help_this_user (There may be a causal link between one and the other.)

@IsaacMoses interesting. I'd missed the closure, presumably because it had disappeared off the front page by then.

@MonicaCellio I don't think the stated close reason actually applies to that question, as it's asking for recommendations of rabbis who can render pesak rather than pesak itself, but whatever, it's been answered well enough.

This previous question, on the other hand, deserves to be closed as Unclear, IMO, as per my comment threon, and I think it stands as a bit of an attractive nuisance argument-generator as long as it's open, though that's significantly mitigated by its being heavily downvoted.

@IsaacMoses agreed. Done.

There are 100 deleted comments on that (latter) question and its answers.

@MonicaCellio Great. Thanks.

@MonicaCellio Thanks to you and your colleagues for the cleaning work.

@IsaacMoses just part of the job. We don't always notice out-of-control comment threads on our own, so flags from the community are really helpful (and were there, for example).

Could someone comment on this ^

It seems to me that the question isn't a duplicate after all because of the difference in scenario

We need are questions to be answerable, right?

Dunno how that arrived in The Upper Room. Ask Elisha doesn't do Bible.

Oh. He does.

Shall edit.

@TRiG You do realize this isn't The Upper Room, right? :)

@Scimonster Yah. Reposted here because interesting to here, then pondered what it was doing in the Upper Room to start with.

@TRiG Well. We have a meta post with interesting tags on other sites. Maybe we could make feeds out of those in Bam as well.