We're opening up the new Community Promotion Ads for Super User, in time for the upcoming year! As well, we're also changing the cycle system - these will now run on a yearly basis, not by halves.

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:

  • cool desktop apps
  • the site's twitter account
  • scripts packs or power tools
  • 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.

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.

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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Feel free to re-add any ads that were added in the past couple months, since they didn't get much air time. – Grace Note Dec 29 '11 at 15:56
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Notepad++, Edit anything, anywhere, in any language

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Your favorite apps, wherever you go.

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If you want to tinker with it, I can provide the GIMP file. – iglvzx Dec 31 '11 at 3:21
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Capture your screen the way you want it captured

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Every week, the Super User community selects an interesting question to be highlighted in the Community Blog as the "Question of the Week". Vote now on the next QotW, or submit a question you liked!

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Creating PDFs just as they are supposed to be

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I'm a huge fan of PDFCreator! – Justin Dearing Feb 9 at 2:48
@JustinDearing As am I! :D – BloodPhilia Feb 9 at 10:17
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Follow us on Twitter!

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The font looks weird. Its spacing is a bit off. I would suggest to use a standard serif font (e.g. Arial, the one used here) instead, and just highlight the Twitter brand name. – slhck Dec 29 '11 at 19:26
I'm mostly just following a template on this one, haha. The Twitter ad is just a generic thing we use both to advert the Twitter but also as just a base demonstration of how the thread works (not sure why Super User was absent one in the previous ad thread). At any rate, if you can create any improvements, feel free to edit this image and replace it with a better one. – Grace Note Dec 29 '11 at 19:53
Haha, fair enough! Changed the font to Arial. – slhck Dec 29 '11 at 19:58
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@GraceNote we didn't have a twitter when the last round of ads started ;) – nhinkle Dec 29 '11 at 20:56
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@GraceNote: Can we have image regions? Then we can also add links to meta and chat to this ad. (。◕‿◕。) – Tom Wijsman Dec 30 '11 at 7:08
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If you think PuTTY was cool, try KiTTY...

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Cool, hadn't seen this before. Maybe edit it to briefly mention why it's superior to putty? – nhinkle Jan 17 at 8:03
I think it should be "thought --> was" or "think --> is" – iglvzx Jan 17 at 16:50
@iglvzx depends completely on what you are trying to say. The way it is now is grammatically correct. However I do agree that "thought" sounds better! I'll edit it, along with Nathan's suggestion. – BloodPhilia Jan 17 at 18:33
@RedhattedCatsaysBestWishes If you were to choose between my two suggestions, "think -> is" would be better, advertisement-wise. – iglvzx Jan 17 at 18:36
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@nhinkle this better? – BloodPhilia Jan 17 at 18:46
Awesome @RedhattedCatsaysBestWishes! – nhinkle Jan 17 at 21:07
it doesn't have a scp like putty.. :( – Vineet Menon Feb 20 at 7:01
@vineet yes it does... – BloodPhilia 2 days ago
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Fedora Project

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FreeBSD

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It will play anything, and it'll do it for free

Note: Ads for ubiquitous software which most users are already familiar with do not further the goals of community promotion ads. We're keeping this as an example of the types of ads that aren't constructive, but it will not actually be shown on the site.

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I don't think we need ads for popular software like VLC. Pretty much everyone's heard of it, and if they haven't, are already using something else that does the job. See the discussion at Define scope of community ads. What it boils down to is that VLC doesn't need our help to get attention - it's already wildly popular. We should be using community ads to promote things that aren't already so ubiquitous. – nhinkle Dec 30 '11 at 19:48
@nhinkle Great point (: – BloodPhilia Dec 30 '11 at 20:00
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enter image description here

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Netbeans is already a very popular piece I software. It's great that you submitted an ad, but it would be better if we prompted something a bit smaller – Simon Sheehan 2 days ago
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PortableApps.com: Your Digital Life, Anywhere™

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There's already an ad for Portable Apps. Perhaps you could discuss with iglvzx which design will work best, and choose one to use? – nhinkle Jan 3 at 17:45
@nhinkle: Sure. I'll check with the folks at PortableApps.com, too. – kAlug Jan 4 at 9:45
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Firefox - Take back the web

Note: Ads for ubiquitous software which most users are already familiar with do not further the goals of community promotion ads. We're keeping this as an example of the types of ads that aren't constructive, but it will not actually be shown on the site.

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Hi @Simon! Although I like a Firefox ad, I think this is a little bit too abstract. You might consider at least adding "Firefox" or something of the sort. Remember, you should be attracting people that have (little to) no experience with FF. Why should they click the ad? Just some tips, not trying to bring you down or something! :D – BloodPhilia Dec 30 '11 at 18:29
@RedhattedCatsaysBestWishes Great idea! thanks! I'll fix it up :) – Simon Sheehan Dec 30 '11 at 18:35
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I don't think we need ads for popular software like Firefox. Anybody who's on this website has heard of Firefox. See the discussion at Define scope of community ads. What it boils down to is that Firefox doesn't need our help to get attention - it's already wildly popular. We should be using community ads to promote things that aren't already so ubiquitous. – nhinkle Dec 30 '11 at 19:49
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