Jul 12, 2019 1:58:18 GMT Whammychu said:

I've been doing some advertisement stuff for a site these last few days, and I'm kind of confused by the whole "Accepted Ads" thing. I'm mostly confused when people put up explicit rules on "Oh, you can only bump your site X amount of times a month". But, all the ads got moved from like First Time (or whatever it's called) to Accepted Ads, and just...I don't have the time? When I'm doing an ad campaign I'm hitting like a dozen or two sites at a time at minimum. I'm not going to be looking at anything past the "First Time" board, so either I see my site ad is still there, or I'm posting. Don't have time to go digging through to make absolutely sure my ad isn't a repeat.

as someone who sort of does that (i move all the finished first links into the link back board when they're linked back to), the reason i personally do it is because i really don't do a lot of first links myself anymore (because i hate the captchas), and i don't think it's really fair for the last site to link back to me to just... hang out as the "last post" in that board endlessly (meaning they have increased visibility) when i'm not offered the same courtesy on their site.

(which, tangentally, this is actually the same reason why i delete ads from sites that alphabetize their ad boards - because after my site falls off the recent posts/threads, it essentially has 0 visibility, and i'm really big on reciprocity in terms of advertising, which isn't probably super surprising given that i used to love being an ad mod back in the days when jcink's captchas were 6 alphanumerics instead of "failing" to pick all the squares with a car in it.)

as far as the explicit rules on bumping sites go... some of it is obviously going to be simple admin preference but if i had to guess, the main reason rules like that exist are because of the days when ad contests were super popular and it wasn't uncommon to see some sites just spam their advertisement 2+ times across the span of a week or two, which is pretty excessive (more so on jcink sites than proboards because of the recent posts feature but if the ad's not linked back to yet, tbeh, it's really not helpful to the site being advertised on for a lot of the same reasons that double-posting used to be an advertising sin back in the day). but i also kind of get this rule too - it's not really that difficult or super time-consuming to go to the accepted board and type in the name of your site in the search bar on proboards or jcink and see the results. (i personally don't use a time-scale on my sites, but if i recognize that a certain site is dropping another ad on my site when they dropped one fairly recently, i might just delete the ad rather than linking back, so uh. yeah.)

which, just to be perfectly clear, i'm not saying all of that to try to shame you or call you out or anything of the sort! i'm just trying to explain kind of. the thought process behind all of it since you said you didn't understand it. and to try to explain the rationale of it for other people who also might not understand some of the reasoning behind it.


i guess for my advertising pet peeve, it's when a site has their whole site or their boards hidden behind age verification. it's just not a guest-friendly ad board, and that's the gospel truth. but it's also inequal advertising (since anyone can click on their ad on my site and immediately see it where that isn't the case for mine on theirs, not to mention that technically then minors shouldn't be able to see my site ad even though they can see the one on my site) and advertising boards really should not be age-verified, right alongside claims and site lore (unless there's actual nsfw information in the lore ofc). so uh. there's that too.

but this especially annoys me because just. it's one of our advertising rules. it's legitimately stickied in gigantic block letters and bolded in a different color right in the header area of all our ad boards. you can't possibly miss it. this was a choice you made and it is time for you to stop.

I just finished the activity check on my site and remembered something from a while ago which is a serious peeve.

When members miss an activity check and blame staff for the repercussions they have to handle as a result. I always look at this like "You didn't post in the AC, absence board/channel or even messaged me giving a heads up that would be away. Don't whine." To me, it is ridiculously childish to get angry at staff for not memorizing your activity level or just adding you. Until told otherwise, I will be under the assumption someone is inactive unless that person gives me life updates frequently enough for me to know. Just because your name is INSERT NAME does not mean you are some omnipotent force I am required to please and know the activity level of. Chill and understand I am doing my duties as a staff member when it comes to checking activity.

I give approximately 3 discord announcements throughout the check, e-mail all forum members, usually have Chatango spitting out messages approximately every 4-5 hours if there are enough messages (sometimes I forget, I'm sorry ;-;) and place it announcements (included coded area and the ProBoards thread one). My checks are also two-step where missing one just gets you placed in inactive status until the second where you get deleted. If that is not enough, I do not know what is. x.x

- when people do post but never for the ac. makes me cry inside because usually, i really don't want to archive their app, but i hate the feeling of things not being to standard. plus usually reactivating recently archived accounts isn't difficult on the member side. now, when this happens repeatedly/members complain...

me: i love you but just so you know i'm the one who is actually "inconvenienced" you literally have to shoot me a dm, maybe make a post which isn't a problem if you already planned to make a post lmao and if not well you probably need to consider why acs exist in the first place, and that's it. i'm the one who has to go track your shit down and unarchive everything.
them: ooooh so why don't you just not bother cuz you know im active
me: it's called trying to put effort into maintaining something i love

- when i create staff logs to keep track of everything but i'm the only one who actually uses it. it's not a peeve so much as its something that makes me lowkey sad q_q