Earn 50 amazon bucks today (admins hate him)

Post by **oranges** » Wed Dec 16, 2015 4:14 am #140783

It has come to my attention that people don't like the current banner, so I figure what the heck, lets make a new one

Guidelines:
(728x90) to be shown on the main page of the site

Rules for the banner:
Banner can not contain any obscene or pornographic imagery.
Rule of thumb, if you can't post it on the forums without a spoiler or nsfw tag, it's not allowed.
Banner can not be an actual advertisement to anything unrelated to /tg/station.
Banners should be goofy and light hearted.
Banners may not contain personal attacks or attacks of character toward anybody.

The winning design as chosen by me will receive a 50 us dollar amazon gift card to spend on books or whatever it is people waste money on these days.

kazeespada · Post by **kazeespada** » Wed Dec 16, 2015 5:27 am #140803

: stungloves.png (5.2 KiB) Viewed 13324 times

: paint.png (4.24 KiB) Viewed 13332 times

: falseadvertising.png (3.59 KiB) Viewed 13324 times

: Clippy.png (9.13 KiB) Viewed 13317 times

Anonmare · Post by **Anonmare** » Wed Dec 16, 2015 6:15 am #140824

Only the highest quality

Wed Dec 16, 2015 6:29 am

oranges wrote:It has come to my attention that people don't like the current banner

Spoiler:

what kind of rude people would say that
my entirely unbiased opinion is that the current banner is a work of art
it belongs in a museum

Post by **NikNakFlak** » Wed Dec 16, 2015 8:12 am #140835

I made this. As a shit meme artist myself, I felt the need to apply my skills.

Alternatively, I present this

Cik · Post by **Cik** » Wed Dec 16, 2015 8:17 am #140837

>what the fuck is carbon dioxide

yes, the best meme

choose this one pls ^

peoplearestrange · Wed Dec 16, 2015 3:02 pm

Can it be an animated gif?

Helios · Post by **Helios** » Wed Dec 16, 2015 3:07 pm #140869

Whoever wins, can you tell me your one weird trick?

peoplearestrange · Wed Dec 16, 2015 3:59 pm

Well i've made a couple:

CPTANT · Post by **CPTANT** » Wed Dec 16, 2015 4:01 pm #140874

How can you not like the current banner? It represents all that TG stands for

Post by **MMMiracles** » Wed Dec 16, 2015 4:20 pm #140880

CPTANT wrote:How can you not like the current banner? It represents all that TG stands for

Funnily enough, that's probably why we need a new banner.

Steelpoint · Post by **Steelpoint** » Wed Dec 16, 2015 4:59 pm #140889

Shit galore

Ricotez · Post by **Ricotez** » Wed Dec 16, 2015 6:12 pm #140908

let's be upfront about who sponsors this whole thing

Wed Dec 16, 2015 10:51 pm

CPTANT wrote:How can you not like the current banner? It represents all that TG stands for

thanks babe

Zilenan91 · Post by **Zilenan91** » Wed Dec 16, 2015 11:47 pm #140992

The 2nd one that NikNak made looks pretty good, top one is too memey and in-jokey, it would turn off new players.

LiamLime · Post by **LiamLime** » Wed Dec 16, 2015 11:50 pm #140995

In my opinion, the banner should cost like 5-10 bux per month to give more people the ability to add things to the front page. The 50 bux price is absurd.

When I first heard it announced, I was donating 5 bux per month, and would have increased it to up to 10 bux if I could get the banner, but when I heard the price, I just noped and kept it at 5. The banner's existence isn't inspiring anyone to donate more, meaning it's failing its purpose.

Post by **oranges** » Wed Dec 16, 2015 11:55 pm #140998

it is a rather high price for some reason

Ricotez · Post by **Ricotez** » Thu Dec 17, 2015 1:12 am #141020

I think the high price was to discourage people from uploading poorly designed banners, but here we are

Post by **NikNakFlak** » Thu Dec 17, 2015 1:43 am #141025

Excuse me, my banners are of the upmost quality and lavish design. A lot of time and effort was put into those delicate works of art.

Zilenan91 · Post by **Zilenan91** » Thu Dec 17, 2015 1:47 am #141026

I am in the presence of a true artist

peoplearestrange · Thu Dec 17, 2015 2:03 am

Ricotez wrote:I think the high price was to discourage people from uploading poorly designed banners, but here we are

D:

LiamLime · Post by **LiamLime** » Thu Dec 17, 2015 2:22 am #141028

Ricotez wrote:I think the high price was to discourage people from uploading poorly designed banners, but here we are

The banners go through MSO anyway, so they are curated.

Personally I think 5-10$ for a tgs related banner and 50$ for an actual advertisement banner are reasonable prices.

ABearInTheWoods · Thu Dec 17, 2015 2:50 am

I can't sell ad space thru patreon, it's literally in their ToS.

I would be amenable to lowering it to 25. I picked 50 mainly because nobody had a donation of that amount at that time.

QuartzCrystal · Thu Dec 17, 2015 4:06 am

I will submit this every time.

LiamLime · Post by **LiamLime** » Thu Dec 17, 2015 4:37 am #141041

MrStonedOne wrote:I can't sell ad space thru patreon, it's literally in their ToS.

I would be amenable to lowering it to 25. I picked 50 mainly because nobody had a donation of that amount at that time.

Well, more prominent projects than TGStation offer ad sales, such as product shoutouts on Patreon.

25$ is still way too much, in my opinion. I'm also fairly sure there are no donors in that range. See, what you're trying to do here is to convince people to start donating or to donate more. If there is nobody who wants to donate in the 25$ range, then selling stuff at that price point makes no sense. You can probably convince some of the 10$ donors to give 15$ instead or convince 5$ donors to give 10$ or convince 1$ donors to give 5$, and probably convince some new people to start donating at 5$ if they can get their banner up. Look at how much most people donate and set it to a little more than that. Alternatively set it to 5$ and try to get new donors.

Remember that convincing 4 people to increase from 1$ to 5$ is worth more than convincing one person to increase from 20$ to 25$. Also, you made up this price originally. The banner has no intrinsic value, so going from 50$ to 5$ isn't de-valuing the banner, because the banner is inherently worthless.

peoplearestrange · Thu Dec 17, 2015 11:17 am

Could we make it a rotating banner? $10-15 per "slide". And each time someone visits the website its a random selection of say, 5 banners?

Post by **oranges** » Fri Dec 18, 2015 1:58 am #141198

Voting will begin Saturday northern hemisphere time.

competition closes tomorrow.

ABearInTheWoods · Fri Dec 18, 2015 1:29 pm

I plan to make it so having mutiples gives you more, so i can't set it to five or 1 person has 12, 3 have 4, etc.

and 20 and 10 are tied for the modal average, so either way works.

Tsaricide · Post by **Tsaricide** » Fri Dec 18, 2015 3:51 pm #141294

Can I just draw a giant dick?

Takeguru · Post by **Takeguru** » Fri Dec 18, 2015 4:59 pm #141302

I am the most best at this

onleavedontatme · Fri Dec 18, 2015 5:24 pm

Doublepost

onleavedontatme · Fri Dec 18, 2015 5:26 pm

https://i.imgur.com/dDX8UBX.gif

Direct link because it looks cut off to me on my phone.

Text can be changed to /TG/station or moved or whatever if people like it.

Girlfriend made it.

Post by **NikNakFlak** » Fri Dec 18, 2015 5:30 pm #141310

Well I think kor won

IrishWristWatch0 · Fri Dec 18, 2015 5:47 pm

NikNakFlak wrote:Well I think kor won

I second the kor winning.

onleavedontatme · Fri Dec 18, 2015 5:58 pm

Do people want /tg/ uppercase or lowercase?

DemonFiren · Post by **DemonFiren** » Fri Dec 18, 2015 7:48 pm #141328

Lowercase.

ABearInTheWoods · Fri Dec 18, 2015 11:59 pm

kor, donate 25 bucks so you can get that put up on top of oranges.

Sat Dec 19, 2015 2:59 am

so yeah it looks like kor is gonna win this
but in the meantime, looks like oranges is using my "hold the phone" drawing as a banner
so yeah that's pretty cool
i love you oranges

ABearInTheWoods · Sat Dec 19, 2015 3:02 am

Kor's banner is 729x90, specs say 728x90

ABearInTheWoods · Sat Dec 19, 2015 3:04 am

Banner price for the patreon has been lowered to 25 effective january 1st when december pledges are processed, oranges gets 2 effective january 15th unless he changes his donation.

He could have 3 if he raises to 75.

LiamLime · Post by **LiamLime** » Sat Dec 19, 2015 3:16 am #141384

Unfortunately 25$ is still about 15$ more than I'd be willing to donate at max, so I guess I won't be getting a banner.

Post by **oranges** » Sat Dec 19, 2015 3:21 am #141385

competition is now closed to entries, voting will occur over the next week for the winner.

I guess I'll get three banner slots, so the top 3 will be displayed, the winner of the poll will receive the voucher.

onleavedontatme · Sat Dec 19, 2015 3:24 am

MrStonedOne wrote:kor, donate 25 bucks so you can get that put up on top of oranges.

Don't think my girlfriend would be thrilled if I told her I spent 25 bucks instead after I told her she might win 50.

Do you want a server poll oranges?

Post by **oranges** » Sat Dec 19, 2015 3:27 am #141387

Sure if that can be arranged then that would be neat.

Post by **oranges** » Sat Dec 26, 2015 8:12 pm #143002

Congratulations to KorPhaeron, who's entry won, please pm me your email to collect your amazon voucher prize.

Congratulations also to NikNakFlak, who came in second place, as well as Anonmare, who came in a close third.

All 3 banners will be placed on the tg homepage at the start of the next patreon cycle.

Fear not the rest of you glorious losers, your banners will be used on singulo as soon as I get around to configuring the banners system.

Post by **NikNakFlak** » Sat Dec 26, 2015 8:39 pm #143006

Wew, not memy option won 1st. Congrats to kor/his gf!
Also which one of mine won 2nd?

Post by **oranges** » Sat Dec 26, 2015 9:23 pm #143012

The meme filled one!

Steelpoint · Post by **Steelpoint** » Sun Dec 27, 2015 5:24 pm #143122

Do I get credit for Anonmare's image due to myself being the one to create the facewiping Nuke Op?

But getting a bit serious I must say well done to Kor's image, to whomever made it.