Shoutbox advertising time management

[O-T]

Hey MCM, I'll just put this on the table, opinions and sub-suggestions are welcome.
I've come across a lot of annoyance regarding advertising approximately every 20 minutes because of time tracking, and since most messages older than 20 minutes are wiped away from the log by new messages, I never perfectly know when to put in my advert so I set timers every now and then. And since a lot of us are quite lazy I propose to implement a sort of countdown clock to help with time tracking: one would post his message, set the clock and come back later with the ability to check whether the countdown finished or not.
A more complicated thing to do would be to implement a menu where one could set a message they'd like to advertise with a button to send directly. The idea is that the send button would grey out and become unavailable until 20 minutes have passed.
That is all for me, folks.

 

[Justis]

This has been suggested and denied in the past, because it encourages the posting of advertisements at the head and tail of every cooldown despite the purpose for our shoutbox not being for advertisements. It’s there for chatting, and advertisements are something that we allow with some moderate restrictions.

An aspect of designing a website is knowing what to make easy and what to make difficult.
Make difficult the things you’d like to allow, but also discourage. This is one of those things.

 

[O-T]

This has been suggested and denied in the past, because it encourages the posting of advertisements at the head and tail of every cooldown despite the purpose for our shoutbox not being for advertisements. It’s there for chatting, and advertisements are something that we allow with some moderate restrictions.

An aspect of designing a website is knowing what to make easy and what to make difficult.
Make difficult the things you’d like to allow, but also discourage. This is one of those things.

Didn't see it from that angle. Might as well trash this suggestion then, Justis

 

[Mick]

This has been suggested and denied in the past, because it encourages the posting of advertisements at the head and tail of every cooldown despite the purpose for our shoutbox not being for advertisements. It’s there for chatting, and advertisements are something that we allow with some moderate restrictions.

An aspect of designing a website is knowing what to make easy and what to make difficult.
Make difficult the things you’d like to allow, but also discourage. This is one of those things.

Indeed. It is worth noting that we have added similar functionality to this for our Ultimate users, it is just having issues at the moment.

Denied, thanks for the suggestion.