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Advertise Outdoors on The Great Outdoors?

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Stack Exchange sites that are not beta support community-curated ads. The Great Outdoors is one such site, and obviously there's some support on meta there for this community, so have y'all considered running an ad for Outdoors Codidact on The Great Outdoors SE? You wouldn't be the first Codidact community to do so, but some might react negatively. You know your community (there and here) better than anyone else; I'm raising the question, but what you do about it is up to you.

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I'm not sure about how "right" using SE's community promotion ads against themselves is. I'd like to stick-it to SE too, but this feels morally wrong.

However, here's an alternate idea, and what I plan to do. High rep users of a SE site that move here can mention that on their profile. Maybe that's wrong too, but it feels more like personal space than SE's space to me.

When top users stop contributing, people will often check their profile. If users have come to respect contributions from that person, they are likely to check out the new place they're at. If each of the top 3-5 users of a site do this, it will probably generate a considerable flow of users to here. You should reach out to these top users and specifically invite them to be part of the core group of an analogous new site here.

I just checked, and over 59,000 people have looked at my profile on SE's Electrical Engineering site. Averaged over 9 years, that 18 views a day. That's a decent number not to be dismissed lightly, especially considering they all deliberately went there.

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James Jenkins‭ wrote over 4 years ago

I think I addressed your moral concerns in my comments under the answer posted https://outdoors.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1615/4079 SE is a bus, we are the passengers talking about using a different bus company. Some of us still ride the old bus, and the new bus. I am paying my dues to both as are many others.

Olin Lathrop‭ wrote over 4 years ago

@James: You expressed a different view, but hardly "addressed" my concerns.

Monica Cellio‭ wrote over 4 years ago

SE makes ads available for communities to use as they will. Community votes are supposed to decide which ads are shown. It would be wrong for outsiders who aren't active on the community to try to affect that vote (in either direction), but for communities where people here are or were also active contributors there, where there's a reason to believe community members would be interested, I don't think that's immoral. We mustn't be spammers or intrusive, but Outdoors was founded from TGO.