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Congratulations on receiving a new design! Included with your new design is the Community Promotion Ads system. For those who are unfamiliar with how this works, please read onwards!

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:

  • interesting chemistry research sites
  • useful resources for practitioner and student alike
  • the site's twitter account
  • 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.

  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. 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.

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    $\begingroup$ Are related stack exchange sites eligible for Ads? For example, Physics, Biology, etc. $\endgroup$
    – Molx
    Commented May 13, 2015 at 22:58
  • $\begingroup$ They're eligible, yes. Your community would be the ones determining if that's what you actually want to steer readers to, though. $\endgroup$
    – Grace Note StaffMod
    Commented May 13, 2015 at 23:58
  • $\begingroup$ @Molx biology might be a good site to advertise, but I think they'd need to come up with the graphic for us. We're not designers. :-) $\endgroup$
    – Geoff Hutchison
    Commented May 14, 2015 at 17:54
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    $\begingroup$ @GeoffHutchison I did Physics (because it was easier, there was already a logo and styled site name), but I'll give a try to Biology later. They are close to graduation too, and there are some posts about the possible/future design. $\endgroup$
    – Molx
    Commented May 14, 2015 at 21:46
  • $\begingroup$ Never mind. I think I see. What should the title of he question be? And do I ask it on Chemistry or Chemistry-meta? $\endgroup$
    – Jan Jensen
    Commented May 15, 2015 at 9:04

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Visit our meta site

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    $\begingroup$ Cool. Great idea! $\endgroup$
    – Geoff Hutchison
    Commented May 15, 2015 at 14:57
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    $\begingroup$ @Geoff Thanks, I borrowed the idea from Tex.ex, I'd link to it but I am on mobile right now. $\endgroup$
    – Martin - マーチン Mod
    Commented May 15, 2015 at 15:17
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    $\begingroup$ It's here. $\endgroup$
    – Geoff Hutchison
    Commented May 15, 2015 at 15:22
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Avogadro - the open molecular editor

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    $\begingroup$ If this seems self-serving, I'll certainly take it down. I'm mainly posting because there are clearly users here. $\endgroup$
    – Geoff Hutchison
    Commented May 14, 2015 at 23:52
  • $\begingroup$ Congratulations on making it into the rotation ;) It is good to know we can have your support here on the network. $\endgroup$
    – Martin - マーチン Mod
    Commented May 18, 2015 at 4:58
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    $\begingroup$ Where is Avogadro 2? WHERE IS IT?!! $\endgroup$
    – LordStryker
    Commented May 18, 2015 at 13:41
  • $\begingroup$ I use it all the time for my molecular modelling work. I use it for building GAMESS (US) input files and for analysing the results. Fantastic software. $\endgroup$
    – DarrenRhodes
    Commented Jun 18, 2015 at 10:24
  • $\begingroup$ is it possible to add/document explicitly 1) console visualisation interface and 2) read/write of camera position/orientation in ctrl-c/ctrl-v friendly way ? $\endgroup$
    – permeakra
    Commented Jun 22, 2015 at 4:49
  • $\begingroup$ @permeakra If you have feature requests, please add issues to GitHub and/or e-mail the mailing list? It's hard to track feature requests on other websites. :-) $\endgroup$
    – Geoff Hutchison
    Commented Jun 22, 2015 at 21:40
  • $\begingroup$ Add it as a new answer to the 2016 post, please. $\endgroup$
    – Martin - マーチン Mod
    Commented Jan 16, 2016 at 18:51
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Physics on Stack Exchange

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    $\begingroup$ Quick note: I didn't draw any of this, just used the website logo and the sticker image from here. $\endgroup$
    – Molx
    Commented May 14, 2015 at 1:16
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Follow us on Twitter!

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  • $\begingroup$ What is the font there? I like that a lot. $\endgroup$
    – Tim
    Commented May 20, 2015 at 19:04
  • $\begingroup$ I have no idea, honestly. $\endgroup$
    – Grace Note StaffMod
    Commented May 20, 2015 at 20:41
  • $\begingroup$ What the font does not have $\endgroup$
    – Martin - マーチン Mod
    Commented May 21, 2015 at 4:03
  • $\begingroup$ @Martin-マーチン It's twitter font. $\endgroup$
    – Ali Caglayan
    Commented May 22, 2015 at 11:59
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Biology on Stack Exchange

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    $\begingroup$ Again, just working with the proposed Biology Site Design. Once the design is launched, it might be a good idea to update this to fit the final logo/background. $\endgroup$
    – Molx
    Commented May 15, 2015 at 0:08
  • $\begingroup$ @GeoffHutchison Yeah, and I agree with them. I added the background because the picture would look too empty otherwise, but an update is a must. Shouldn't take too long though, so I'll keep an eye open. $\endgroup$
    – Molx
    Commented May 15, 2015 at 3:13
  • $\begingroup$ Since they graduated a couple of hours ago, maybe now is a good time to update this. $\endgroup$
    – Martin - マーチン Mod
    Commented May 21, 2015 at 3:43
  • $\begingroup$ Updated with the new background and better versions of the logo/name. $\endgroup$
    – Molx
    Commented May 21, 2015 at 22:48
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Current Chemistry Stack Exchange bounties
(source: herokuapp.com)

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    $\begingroup$ For what it's worth, the trick is to post first to imgur and then to edit the post to link to the dynamic ad. $\endgroup$
    – Geoff Hutchison
    Commented May 14, 2015 at 17:53
  • $\begingroup$ Has anyone ever seen that on the main page appearing yet? $\endgroup$
    – Martin - マーチン Mod
    Commented May 18, 2015 at 4:58
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    $\begingroup$ @Martin-マーチン Yes. $\endgroup$
    – Geoff Hutchison
    Commented May 18, 2015 at 10:50
  • $\begingroup$ @GeoffHutchison: The size is not a problem. $\endgroup$
    – Martin Schröder
    Commented May 25, 2015 at 13:06
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Detexify²

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If you want down-to-earth answers to your questions

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HSM

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Engineering Stack Exchange

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Retraction watch

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    $\begingroup$ Copied from meta.academia.stackexchange.com/a/1483/21869 $\endgroup$
    – Geoff Hutchison
    Commented May 14, 2015 at 17:24
  • $\begingroup$ I don't know what this is, and at the moment I get an error opening the link This webpage has a redirect loop ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS :( $\endgroup$
    – Martin - マーチン Mod
    Commented May 21, 2015 at 3:48
  • $\begingroup$ @Martin-マーチン Not sure about the redirects. It's a blog that tracks academic article retractions, particularly in the sciences (e.g., some of the recent JACS cases). $\endgroup$
    – Geoff Hutchison
    Commented May 21, 2015 at 5:40
  • $\begingroup$ Interesting, it did work now, so I know at least what we are dealing with. $\endgroup$
    – Martin - マーチン Mod
    Commented May 21, 2015 at 7:20
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Visit Health StackExchange

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  • $\begingroup$ Did you read "How does it work" of the question? This will be ignored in its current format. $\endgroup$
    – user223679
    Commented May 20, 2015 at 19:59
  • $\begingroup$ If you want to add the attribution, do so in the comments. Btw, I found the CC link broken. $\endgroup$
    – user223679
    Commented May 20, 2015 at 20:07
  • $\begingroup$ © Tim 2015. Licensed CC by SA 3.0 $\endgroup$
    – michaelpri
    Commented May 21, 2015 at 0:10
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    $\begingroup$ This image is too big. $\endgroup$
    – Martin - マーチン Mod
    Commented May 22, 2015 at 11:07
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    $\begingroup$ @Martin-マーチン See here. They are supported. $\endgroup$
    – michaelpri
    Commented May 22, 2015 at 13:26
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MathJax buttons on text editor

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  • $\begingroup$ Based on the same ad on Physics SE. I'm not 100% satisfied with the final result, suggestions are appreciated. $\endgroup$
    – Molx
    Commented Jun 8, 2015 at 2:24
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Academia Stack Exchange

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    $\begingroup$ Taken from meta.physics.stackexchange.com/a/6401/7433 . Not sure if the community will want it -- so vote away! $\endgroup$
    – ManishEarth Mod
    Commented May 14, 2015 at 7:42
  • $\begingroup$ Huh, when did this get the downvotes? I wondered why it disappeared from the ads. $\endgroup$
    – M.A.R.
    Commented Nov 9, 2015 at 19:13
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The Molecule Calculator

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    $\begingroup$ I think this would be a very useful tool anyone participating in the forum. I have referred to it on numerous occasions in my answers. Disclaimer I am one of the developers $\endgroup$
    – Jan Jensen
    Commented Jun 19, 2015 at 13:17
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Important recent papers in computational and theoretical chemistry

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Proposal for Science Educators SE

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  • $\begingroup$ @Tyberius, this looks like something we can easily make! $\endgroup$
    – user1271772
    Commented Feb 18, 2020 at 18:33
  • $\begingroup$ did you make this yourself, or was it a screenshot? I would like to promote this proposal, but I can't find an image like this anywhere. $\endgroup$
    – user1271772
    Commented Feb 18, 2020 at 18:35
  • $\begingroup$ @user1271772: Going by the source, I would guess screenshot, but then I think I can remember that it was somewhat dynamic. Anyway, it was more than four years ago and a lot of things happened since then. $\endgroup$
    – Wrzlprmft
    Commented Feb 18, 2020 at 19:00
  • $\begingroup$ Thank you @Wrzlprmft. Since you are so active on the physics and mathematics SEs, would you considering committing to my Area51 proposal in my previous comment? $\endgroup$
    – user1271772
    Commented Feb 18, 2020 at 19:03
  • $\begingroup$ @user1271772: No. I have no expertise or particular interest in that area whatsoever. $\endgroup$
    – Wrzlprmft
    Commented Feb 19, 2020 at 6:18
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Your daily fix of Computational Chemistry news

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New site for researches interested in structure determination
(source: stackexchange.com)

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