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18 questions linked to/from We're enabling display ads on select Stack Exchange sites
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Affiliate Ads Are Coming To The Network
Some time ago, we announced that certain SE sites will have advertising enabled. This has gone well and we're extremely thankful to everyone for their support and feedback. Because it has been ...
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Ads on SE sites are excessively animated, irrelevant, dubious and resource-intensive
SE had very high standards for ads on Stack Overflow, ads were curated, generally static images and well-behaved. I found the stance SE took on acceptable ads admirable, and they certainly left some ...
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Is SE admitting they don't deem recent issues as important?
In this recent blog SE lists out some of the problems with meta. They make some great points, but this one in particular stood out to me:
Meta requests don’t integrate with any existing ...
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At smaller sites, penalize hot questions having 3-4 close votes
At smaller sites (up to 50-100 questions a day average) closing a question takes hours or even days.
As an example, this SO question has got 5 close votes in 15 minutes, while its twin at Software ...
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What sort of ads should SE managers accept?
Everybody seems to complain about the inappropriateness of some ads which have been posted so far, be it for sexual or other "sensitive" issues that may have disturbed some users.
We all would be ...
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What changes have resulted from SE network sites becoming a source of income?
Nearly three years ago, display ads stopped being an SO-only thing and came to some other relevant sites. More recently, this programme widened to include affiliate ads on most sites. Both times, one ...
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How will Stack Exchange ensure security of adverts?
I have absolutely no problem with the principle of proper adverts (i.e. Adverts that are relevant to the audience, and only appearing in the small sidebar like existing ones etc.) however the concern ...
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What sites have advertisements enabled?
Apparently Drupal.SE has ads:
Which doesn't seems to be mentioned in the advertising program list. Are there sites that have ads enabled yet not documented (apart from the trilogy)?
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Please make an optional 1ドル/month no-ad version of the site
Please make an optional 1ドル/month membership level!
I never click the ads... my "ad" worth to the site must be less than 1ドル per month.
Make the paid version of the site exactly the same as the non-...
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Are chatrooms no longer shown in sidebar on main site, only on meta?
If you've been using SE network for some time, you have surely seen some chat rooms displayed in the sidebar on the right, something like this:
I will add that I consider something like this useful. ...
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Are community/open-source ads showing up anywhere?
Since the beginning of the year I have not once seen a community-ads ad displayed on any SE site, including SO (yes I'm aware goofs happened). I know the ads are served somewhat randomly (looks random ...
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Empty ads frame creating extra whitespace
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@Kevin made a very good observation in a comment. Looking at the Chrome inspector, it looks like this is an empty Google ads frame.
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I've noticed on a couple SE sites that I am ...
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Can we have a reprieve on the ads for other activities apart from rep?
I have quite a few helpful flags on many of the Stack Exchange site.
But I have low rep on most of these sites, as I only go there to help flag spam and abusive posts found in charcoal HQ
There are ...
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Why is only Stack Overflow so large?
Stack Overflow has been around for almost nine years, and I don't think anyone can deny that it is an absolute resounding success by any objective standard. There are not very many serious programmers ...
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Is the list on selfserve-stackexchange.com the complete list of sites that carry display ads?
The selfserve ad campaign site got an update and is now offering ads for more than just the trilogy. It currently lists:
Stack Overflow,
Server Fault,
Super User,
Android Enthusiasts,
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