Would you or do you have metrics or measurement technique in place to rate the projects that can be promoted
Do this ad is based on upfront payment to be made by the project owner to publish their products?
Is this news about posting an ad in a community channel ?
Is this intention to improve the computational sustainability and efficiency?
Is this an effort to get rid of bloatware from the community and solve better problems?
Suggestion for ads - Why not keep the ads section out of newsfeed and be published in a different page, personalised to the user ?
For example, lets say, I visit ads.stackoverflow.com, then i expect to see the ads targeted for me. If there are users with legitimate needs, they can pick the one from the list of published ads.
In my opinion, the feed is a an infinite scrollable page. This is a bad experience at the modern trend, if you opt for injecting ads in these section, the entire effort to get it done, may become obsolete. unless you have a design to code tech in the pipeline set up for the engineering and the design team, you can get them reverted pretty quick.
Instead, move ads to a different page away from the feed, meanwhile, cleanup the current feed contents. It contains useless information on a most recent post bases and poor metrics to capture the most important posts based on points.
Have a system in place, that can measure the usefulness or the weightage of a question towards computational efficiency, use it to sort the questions to be shown to the users.
The post ranking system is Obsolete! with such an important feature in place and in need, checking with the groups about a placement of the ads is misuse of your precious time
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main vision of stackexchange or stackoverflow is to support fellow computer programmers, who are new, and trying to learn.
This was the past, but sticking to the same doesn't take us anywhere.
For example, having multiple programming languages in the world is pointless, all does the same job, consider a newbie enters a computer world, finding that there are multiple choices, this causes brain hurt.
Keeping the newbies or future visitors of the forum, and computer science in consideration, both the readers / viewers and the computational technology should merge towards single vision, and not deviate.
For example, this post is a good initiative, but in my opinion, and in my eyes, i do not see it happening. here is what im based of.
duplicate programming languages, duplicate OS. For now its political or geographical, but once the dominant leaders are passed over, then it becomes responsibility of an individual to clean up the bloatware from the system.
Programming languages are bloatwares, Operating systems are bloatwares. All does the same job, user talking to the hardware or user talking to another user through hardware or hardware talking to hardware.
Cleaning programming languages with a code degenerator (fiction) to a standard language and code generation( R&D) targeting a programming langauge solves programming language issue.
Like wise i see the challenge with the operating system as well.
Please note, all my thoughts are biased based on my finding of a visual language. To support my conviction on a visual language because it crosses language barrier across the globe.
