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 (Rafael dos Santos Silva)]

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

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)]

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

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