Advertising Cooldowns + Limit

[Splodgebox]

Hello,
Currently if you look at popular sections like plugins all the sticky threads are the same as they have been for a very long time, along with the 'featured resource'

I think there should be a limit to the time you can put an ad up since it's impossible to put one up due to the limit in slots

Along with this there should be a cooldown so you can't just purchase the ad instantly after the limit is reached.

 

[Mick]

Over the past few years, we've been manually going through and tinkering with the prices of all of our ad placements to strike a good balance between having a low cost and queue. Basically, we adjust the prices based on the demand in any particular forum. If a forum has a queue, we up the price and if there's only 1 or 2 threads stickied we'll lower the price to encourage more people to buy there.

I'd really like to automate this system to dynamically update the prices. I can't think of a good algorithm to do that right now but it should be doable for us to magically balance out the load. I do think that this is a much more elegant solution (plus it will generate me more money which is always a good thing).

It doesn't make sense to be limiting people from buying the slot if they're willing to pay for it.

Denied, thanks for the suggestion