Community Promotion Ads - 2013

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As it is December 2012, we are now going to reset our Community Promotion Ads for the new year.

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:

the site's twitter account
useful tools or resources for physics research
interesting articles or findings for the curious
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.

Why do we reset the ads every year?

Some services will maintain usefulness over the years, while other things will wane to allow for new faces to show up. Resetting the ads every year helps accommodate this, and allows old ads that have served their purpose to be cycled out for fresher ads for newer things. This helps keep the material in the ads relevant to not just the subject matter of the community, but to the current status of the community. We reset the ads once a year, every December.

The community promotion ads have no restrictions against reposting an ad from a previous cycle. If a particular service or ad is very valuable to the community and will continue to be so, it is a good idea to repost it. It may be helpful to give it a new face in the process, so as to prevent the imagery of the ad from getting stale after a year of exposure.

How does it work?

The answers you post to this question must conform to the following rules, or they will be ignored.

All answers should be in the exact form of:
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[![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.
The question must always be tagged with the magic community-ads tag. In addition to enabling the functionality of the advertisements, this tag also pre-fills the answer form with the above required form.

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.

2 revs, 2 users 75% Manishearth · Answer 1 · 2013-01-14 15:44:21Z

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Is it really still necessary to promote arXiv.org? – Claudius Dec 10 '12 at 16:22

@Claudius: If you don't think so, downvote the proposal... :) – Manishearth♦ Dec 10 '12 at 16:26

Don’t worry, I did :) – Claudius Dec 10 '12 at 16:26

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@Claudius it was never necessary to promote arXiv.org. They get plenty of traffic from established researchers already. That's not why the ad was here. It's here to give people who wouldn't already know about it (non-researchers) a window into this important pillar of the research community. – David Z♦ Dec 16 '12 at 7:10

why don't you advertise BOINC instead? boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php It would sure be useful for scientific progress. (Though I personally dislike the SETI program, there are just so many others to choose instead) – Raindrop Jan 16 at 22:37

@Raindrop: If you feel so, just make an ad and post it :) – Manishearth♦ Jan 17 at 7:23

@Claudius I think it's a good reminder for people to check it out – Larry Harson Jul 26 at 14:59

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Manishearth · Answer 2 · 2012-12-10 15:19:29Z

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I may get this one revamped later :) – Manishearth♦ Dec 10 '12 at 15:19

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I really like this one because it looks like some kind of jelly donut :) It's one of the few "ads" that has ever caught my attention. (I guess it'd be a benzene donut actually...) – Nick Apr 15 at 0:13

Looking at the profiles here, Mannishearth is the only person I've come across that subscribes to chem.se. So I guess most users would find its presence here an annoying distraction. – Larry Harson Jul 26 at 14:58

@LarryHarson Sure, possibly. But in this case it's been upvoted enough, so a significant portion of the community wants it. As mentioned elsewhere on this page (I think), we don't delete answers based on "unsuitability" unless they're NSFW or something. (Also, people click this ad according to stats, so it's not ignored) – Manishearth♦ Jul 26 at 15:04

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Manishearth · Answer 3 · 2012-12-10 15:20:04Z

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answered Dec 10 '12 at 15:20

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Crazy Buddy · Answer 4 · 2013-07-14 04:18:00Z

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Manishearth · Answer 5 · 2012-12-10 15:20:23Z

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John Hammersley · Answer 6 · 2013-01-24 19:09:45Z

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This is an ad from TeX SX, which may also be useful here and on Math SX for a couple of reasons: you can use it to collaborate in real time to help explain physics (especially when there's maths involved), and secondly, it is a great option for working through problems on an iPad or other tablet (for which there are limited alternatives). Happy to let the community vote decide - I'm one of the developers of writeLaTeX, so any feedback appreciated, thanks. – John Hammersley Jan 24 at 19:11

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Edward Hughes · Answer 7 · 2012-12-17 14:13:38Z

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Which rascals have downvoted this ...?! – Dilaton Jul 21 at 21:50

@Dilaton: I didn't downvote, but I don't think this ad is good (after all, it's linking to a popular-science site). It could be supplemented with links to good non-popular resources. Or it could link to that "Official Superstring theory" thing which has both popular and semi-popular. – Dimension10 Jul 22 at 17:07

@Dimension10 yes, it links to a rather popular site but it was set up by students of a quite serious physicist. Lumo thought too it is quite cute and the only thing I disaprove is a link to a troll site it contains for political correctness ;-). And certain parts could/should be updated ... Do you have an idea for an add of a more technical site such as the official one? – Dilaton Jul 23 at 18:35

@Dilaton: When you said "official one", I didn't realise at first that you were talking about the Official Superstring theory website, I thought that this website here was "unnoficial" and there was an official version. : ) – Dimension10 Jul 24 at 9:37

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@Dilaton: And some sentences are wrong. E.g. it says that the critical dimension of 10 is due to "making it consistent with SR." I presume they mean Lorentz invariance, then it would be very much of a half-truth. It only is the reason in LCG (not LQG) quantisation but you could always chose the canonical method of quantisation, then it would be to remove the Pauli - Villar ghost states. – Dimension10 Jul 24 at 12:18

@Dimension10 Ouch ... :-/! – Dilaton Jul 24 at 12:51

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OghmaOsiris · Answer 8 · 2012-12-15 15:40:37Z

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I do like this one – David Z♦ Dec 16 '12 at 3:46

Thank you muchly :) – OghmaOsiris Dec 16 '12 at 6:56

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please put a tiny text maybe at the bottom right of the picture saying 'scifi stackexchange'... – Raindrop Jan 16 at 22:39

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Do we need to advertise Sci - Fi . SE? This is a physics site! – Dimension10 Jul 24 at 12:19

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sci fiction and fantasy, you're kidding, right? – Larry Harson Jul 26 at 15:02

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Emilio Pisanty · Answer 9 · 2013-07-26 13:49:23Z

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2 revs · Answer 10 · 2013-07-27 04:47:38Z

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This was proposed by David Zaslavasky before , but never was used. ' ` – Dimension10 Jul 24 at 13:36

Oh, heh, I thought it was already here. Thanks :-) – David Z♦ Jul 25 at 2:32

I honestly can't see the point of this suggestion since most researchers already know about this. – Larry Harson Jul 26 at 15:01

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@LarryHarson: Many Students don't. Same reason as what David Zaslavasky gave for ArXiV (now DON'T go around -1ing that.) . – Dimension10 Jul 26 at 15:04

@LarryHarson: I've added a spacebar just in case you want to reverse the downvote. – Dimension10 Jul 27 at 4:48

@Dimension10 So how is the site of use to the average student here? – Larry Harson Jul 27 at 14:05

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@LarryHarson: Huh? To learn, obviously. What else do you want, to help them do their homework?! . – Dimension10 Jul 27 at 14:12

Can you give an example of when a student might want to use it? – Larry Harson Jul 27 at 14:20

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@LarryHarson: The student wants to learn say, M(Atrix) theory/Matrix string theory , for which the best sources are the papers them selves. – Dimension10 Jul 27 at 14:45

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3 revs · Answer 11 · 2013-07-26 14:56:20Z

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It's a nice site. It has both popular level, and semi-popular (actually close to technical. Perhaps demystified level.) level: superstringtheory.com/blackh/blackh4a.html. For example. – Dimension10 Jul 24 at 10:03

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Nice one, I like this +1 :-) – Dilaton Jul 24 at 11:05

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+1 The artwork could stand improvement, however – Eugene Seidel Jul 24 at 14:47

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Read the image requirements again, this isn't the correct size. – Manishearth♦ Jul 24 at 15:04

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@Manishearth and in addition it seems the topic is not appreciated as all the corresponding adds get downvoted ... – Dilaton Jul 24 at 20:04

@Dilaton That was my downvote, because the image doesn't fit the size requirements. – Manishearth♦ Jul 25 at 7:36

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@Dimension10 Maybe it is better to remove this and the TRF add ... :-/? The two of us seem to be the only ones who some kind of appreciate these sites or the corresponding topics (at least among the people who read meta from time to time), whereas the large majority prefers adds for science fiction sites and such things ... I suspect not even changing the format of the graphics, such that they fit the image requirements, would change anything about this (for a short moment I considered doing this) ... :-/ – Dilaton Jul 25 at 18:16

It's too localised. – Larry Harson Jul 26 at 12:34

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@Manishearth: I fixed the image it is now 220 $\times$ 250 pixels according to MS Paint. – Dimension10 Jul 26 at 13:15

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@Dilaton: Yup, you're right that changinng the image size didn't change the downvotes, but I wouldn't delete it (e.g. if a revolution happens suddenly in Physics.SE, this might have a chance of being an add : ) ). – Dimension10 Jul 26 at 14:37

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@Dimension10: What's wrong with being too focused? . (Besides, this website, even though it's name is "The Official String theory website." also contains a lot of primers on GR and QFT, so I'll make a tiny edit to the post in case you want to retract the downvote...) – Dimension10 Jul 26 at 14:55

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@Dimension10 even if it hurts me seeing such things getting nothing but downvoted, you are some kind of right: there might come better times too, at least if we dont live in an unstable vacuum things cant go down forever ;-) – Dilaton Jul 26 at 15:25

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@LarryHarson: Could you reply to "What's wrong with being too focused? . (Besides, this website, even though it's name is "The Official String theory website." also contains a lot of primers on GR and QFT, so I'll make a tiny edit to the post in case you want to retract the downvote...) "? It contains stuff other than ST, too... – Dimension10 Jul 26 at 15:38

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@Manishearth: Is that really the reason? Because it's the right size now. – Dimension10 Jul 26 at 16:26

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@dimension10 OK +1. Having looked at the site in more detail, there are a variety of links that talk about mechanics, relativity at beginner and advanced level etc so it isn't as focused as I initially thought. – Larry Harson Jul 27 at 14:02

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Ali · Answer 12 · 2013-07-25 11:36:48Z

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4 revs, 2 users 85% · Answer 13 · 2013-07-27 03:49:59Z

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Some explanation, please? – Eugene Seidel Jul 24 at 14:48

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@EugeneSeidel That's an open archive similar to Arxiv (they are sisters by the way) with a few more features. You can upload your PhD dissertation, Lecture notes as well even though preprints are the main targets. – pluton Jul 24 at 15:27

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I have changed the size of the image to be 2200*250 (as per the img requirements). I hope you're ok. If you're not, you could just revert the editr. – Dimension10 Jul 27 at 3:51

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OghmaOsiris · Answer 14 · 2012-12-15 15:39:56Z

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Do we need to promote SciFi.SE on a physics site? (Ignoring the fact that the caption applies to any body with a gravitational field). – Dimension10 Jul 24 at 13:31

@Dimension10 It is the phone booth that "the Doctor" in the Dr. Who television series uses to travel between planets, stars, epochs and dimensions. Step inside and you will see that it is indeed much bigger :) You can argue that non-science sites should not be promoted here and you would have a valid argument. On the other hand, many scientists enjoy SF as a diversion. A number of SF authors have been scientists (e.g., Asimov). And a not insignificant number of scientists were turned on as youngsters to the wonders of the natural world by reading about distant stars and galaxies in a SF novel. – Eugene Seidel Jul 24 at 14:45

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I can't imagine anyone from here wanting to click on this. – Larry Harson Jul 26 at 12:35

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3 revs · Answer 15 · 2013-07-24 13:48:53Z

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Lumo's picture looks a bit too course grained. Maybe that part could be clipped off which would make the the format of the rest of the picture more equilateral (less elongated) and more to the point somehow? – Dilaton Jul 24 at 13:37

@Dilaton: Is this new one better? . – Dimension10 Jul 24 at 13:49

Nah, I meant just taking the upper part, such that the figure only includes the the Veritas emblem and the acronym TRF with or without the sentence saying "Our stringy universe from a concervative point of view". I am not sure if Lumo would approve it if a picture of him goes into the add, and the resultion of the photo is not high enough ... – Dilaton Jul 24 at 14:00

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@Dilaton: Just asked him on TRF. – Dimension10 Jul 24 at 14:03

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(This isn't the correct size either). I'm not too sure if we should advertise personal blogs via this mechanism, though. It's probably allowed, but it makes me uneasy. Blogs set up by a collaboration sound better :) – Manishearth♦ Jul 24 at 15:06

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@Manishearh it is one of the best physics blogs for technical theoretical physics and appreciated and frequented by active researchers in these topics too. Just let the votes decide is the best approach I think, it does not need special moderator attention. – Dilaton Jul 24 at 19:57

@Dilaton That was my personal opinion on it, not a foretelling of mod action. Of course if it isn't allowed (I doubt that though), then I may have to delete it. – Manishearth♦ Jul 25 at 7:37

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+10 for content, -1 as a suggestion to be advertised here. – Larry Harson Jul 26 at 15:23

@LarryHarson: I have no idea what you are saying. Clarify? – Dimension10 Jul 26 at 15:42

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@Dimension10 the site is geared towards publicizing String Theory, the latest results in the world of physics, original stuff that connects the real world with physics etc; I find it awesome in that respect. But it's also used to promote Lubos's views on climate change skepticism, politics, the "wrongs" of political correctness etc which I don't think is of relevance here, and is more to do with Lubos's agenda in life. – Larry Harson Jul 27 at 13:48

@LarryHarson: Hmmm... That makes sense ... – Dimension10 Jul 27 at 14:16

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