Feature Request: Sponsored Posts

[thegurjyot (Gurjyot Singh)]

Ads are one way of earning but the communities shine where members can pay to show their posts as ads. Like on FB and Twitter, people can pay to show their posts as ads and this way the layout of the ads still show like the normal posts only.
All that makes the post different from normal posts is a small written message - “sponsored post” or “promoted post”.

In Discourse, the sponsored post can be shown after every 15 or 20 posts and in “suggested posts” after a complete topic. This way even is multiple people pay for sponsoring their posts then, also the list won’t be completely filled with them. But the user should also have the option to set the ad for a number of days and will also need some statistics to show to them. Although, I think a more solid plan can be curated by more experienced people in this community.

What do you guys think about this feature request?

[Steven]

I think this is more of a plugin territory.

I’ve seen a plugin on Discourse when someone can sponsor a new topic that will be pinned for a few days. I’ll try to find it

[Falco]

@Steven

I’ve seen a plugin on Discourse when someone can sponsor a new topic that will be pinned for a few days.

https://github.com/chrisbeach/discourse-paid-pinning

New monetisation feature proposition

I’ve implemented this as a Discourse plugin, and have been testing on my sites for a few weeks now. There are one or two things I wanted to add (tests, documentation, full internationalisation) before announcing the new plugin on meta.discourse.org However, if you’re willing to be beta testers, I’d be very grateful for your feedback. My plugin is here: GitHub - chrisbeach/discourse-paid-pinning: Allows forum members to pay for pinned topics On my forums (example: https://se23.life), I allow…

[thegurjyot (Gurjyot Singh)]

@Steven

I think this is more of a plugin territory.

Are you talking about the category? Because this is the first time I asked about a feature and I didn’t know which category to use.

@Falco thank you for the link. This plugin’s idea is good but this only pins the post to the top. Although, the idea is to show the post at multiple places rather than just at the top. Means, when a person is scrolling a list of posts then after every 15 or 20 posts he should see a “sponsored post”. That way even if multiple people pay for such ads then also the top of the list won’t be filled with just sponsored posts.

[itsbhanusharma (Bhanu Sharma)]

You can maybe fork that plugin and adapt it to your requirements. This definitely isn’t something that discourse may have natively.

Also, for the nth post, You can refer to
https://github.com/discourse/discourse-adplugin

[thegurjyot (Gurjyot Singh)]

Yeah I know that this idea is for a plugin only and not for Discourse core. Would like to see if someone can make a full fledged users ads system. Although, there’s no hurry for this, I was just putting forward an idea.

[itsbhanusharma (Bhanu Sharma)]

If You really need it, maybe try posting in Marketplace

[jrgong]

오래된 글을 다시 꺼내 봅니다. 여전히 가치가 있는 주제입니다.

저희는 포럼에서 스폰서 게시글(sponsored posts) 기능을 개발 중이며, 스폰서 게시글에 대한 중앙 집중식 또는 더 포괄적인 옵션 및 설정을 찾고 있습니다. 혹시 이 기능을 구현해 보신 분이 계신지 궁금합니다.

스폰서 게시글이 포럼의 나머지 부분과 자연스럽게 통합되면서도 노출을 강화하는 것이 목표입니다. 현재 코어 및 일부 플러그인 옵션으로 해당 기능의 일부를 충족하고 있지만, 아직 어떻게 구현해야 할지 모르는 기능이 남아 있습니다:

1. 태그별 검색 우선순위: 검색 우선순위는 카테고리별로 설정할 수 있지만, 태그별로도 설정할 수 있으면 좋겠습니다. 이전에 논의된 바 있습니다.

2. “보이지 않는” 하위 카테고리 생성: 스폰서 게시글이 포럼에 자연스럽게 통합되도록 하기 위해, 별도의 스폰서 카테고리를 만들고 싶지 않으면서도 카테고리별 기능을 활용하여 해당 주제의 가시성을 높이고 싶습니다. 대신 카테고리를 스폰서/비스폰서로 나누어 각 유형별 게시글의 가시성 설정을 세밀하게 조정하는 것이 목표이며, 특히 다음과 같은 기능을 원합니다:

• 스폰서 주제에 대한 검색 우선순위 향상

• 스폰서 주제 자동 올림(auto-bump)

  현재 우회책으로 “큐레이션(curated)” 카테고리를 사용하여 강조된 비스폰서 주제와 스폰서 게시글을 함께 배치하고 있습니다. 이를 통해 인기 콘텐츠와 스폰서 콘텐츠를 함께 부스팅하고 있습니다.

3. 스폰서 주제에 대한 비활성 상태 X일/주/개월 후 자동 올림(auto-bump)