Discord Advertising Sub-Forum

[Sixth]

At the moment there seems to be a heavy influx of users wanting to sell Discord advertisements, and that is making it hard to differentiate which threads are for Minecraft or Discord. As a result, I think adding a Discord Sub-Forum would be beneficial to create less clutter in the "Advertising" section.

 

[TellTale]

I like that mc-market is expanding itself in this way. Splitting things up creates less opportunity for something to be seen. Advertising is broad and it gives a lot of options .. advertising especially shouldn't be focused in a specific area, as you need to be creative and utilize new ways of reaching an audience.

 

[Mick]

In the next update we plan on organising a whole bunch of forums such as the design & media forums, what are our thoughts on also doing this for Advertising?

Right now the forum layout looks like this

Advertising

Server List Slots​

What are your thoughts on us changing it to his?

Advertising (not able to post this parent)

Server Lists
Videos & Streams
Discord
Other​

Feedback would be appreciated, play people!

 

[Wqrld]

I do not think this does anymore good than bad. I think its good to have advertisements mixed as a lot of people still need all of them for the same project. plus a lot of them wouldnt be looked at anymore if they came in the "other" section.

 

[TellTale]

In the next update we plan on organising a whole bunch of forums such as the design & media forums, what are our thoughts on also doing this for Advertising?

Right now the forum layout looks like this

Advertising

Server List Slots​

What are your thoughts on us changing it to his?

Advertising (not able to post this parent)

Server Lists
Videos & Streams
Discord
Other​

Feedback would be appreciated, play people!

Honestly not sure why discord is considered an effective or good way to advertise, or even why we don't frown on this

General Advertisement (don't call it other? make it something people click on!)
Social Media
Minecraft Directories (there's so many for so much, why restrict? think of the mod community)
Videos and Streams
Marketing Services (for people to offer marketing based services that are not specific to any one thing)

 

[Mick]

Honestly not sure why discord is considered an effective or good way to advertise, or even why we don't frown on this

From conversations I've had with minecraft server owners and other business owner people, Discord advertising is a really cost-effective promotion strategy if it's done right, and it is incredibly popular on our site because of this.

General Advertisement (don't call it other? make it something people click on!)

I called it other because that's what it is, it's the catch-all for anything that didn't fit in those first 3 categories which 90%+ of threads would have fit into. I don't see a reason to obfuscate the actual content inside a forum to mislead people into thinking it's something it isn't

Social Media

I don't really know what social media counts as, or what sort of content would fit into this. The 3 main forums I named were chosen specifically because they are the 3 largest categories. I don't want to create categories with no demand

Minecraft Directories (there's so many for so much, why restrict? think of the mod community)

I'm unsure of what this means even in the context of the advertising forum. It's called Server Lists at the moment because that's what a huge portion of the forum is used for. Renaming it from server lists to anything more confusing than that will just make it more difficult to navigate. If someone is trying to offer advertisements for their mods that can go in Other along with everything else that doesn't fit

Marketing Services (for people to offer marketing based services that are not specific to any one thing)

This is a difficult problem and one that I hadn't considered when I came up with my plan, but I don't think splitting teams out into their own complete forum is the solution to it. If you manage youtubers, it doesn't make sense to post that anywhere other than the videos and streams category. If you offer several marketing services, it makes the most sense to post about each service you offer in the individual forums as separate posts.

Apologies if any of my responses came off seeming aggressive or dickish. I really do appreciate the insights and ideas, but I think that the current idea I had for the categorisation makes more sense.

 

[TellTale]

Mick You're good! Just posting my thoughts and they weren't heavily considered either, so no problem. One thing though: I think marketing services would be a pretty cool thing to get going, because I for one am very good with marketing. I probably wouldn't be selling a service here because my time is better spent doing more important projects, but I wouldn't put it past this community, especially the younger people to come up with creative ways to promote a business.

 

[Mick]

In the next update we plan on organising a whole bunch of forums such as the design & media forums, what are our thoughts on also doing this for Advertising?

Right now the forum layout looks like this

Advertising

Server List Slots​

What are your thoughts on us changing it to his?

Advertising (not able to post this parent)

Server Lists
Videos & Streams
Discord
Other​

Feedback would be appreciated, play people!

I'll move this to pending for us to implement since I still think it's a pretty good idea. Thanks for the suggestions everyone