Bitcoin Forum

In order to collect more money for the creation of good forum software, the forum is selling ad space in the area beneath the first post of every topic page.

Your visible ad text (ignoring link URLs, etc.) must be less than 150 characters in length, and it can only contain links: no other style. It will be prefixed with "Advertisement:". Ad text may not contain lies, misrepresentation, or inappropriate language. Ads may be rejected for other reasons.

There are 10 total ad slots which are randomly rotated. So one ad slot has a one in ten chance of appearing. Eight of the slots are for sale here. (One of the remaining slots has random factoids, and one links to the current ad auction.)

The ad lasts 7 days starting from when I put it up.

Stats: On the 20^th of November, 2011, there were about 120,000 views of topics. So one slot would have appeared around 12,000 times per day. The ad doesn't appear on topic pages with only one post, though, and it only appears for people using the default theme. Total views per day on more recent days (in November):
- 20^th: 117640
- 21^st: 116755
- 22^nd: 115269
- 23^rd: 100399
- 24^th: 85704
- 25^th: 88024
- 26^th: 83397
- 27^th: 85596
- 28^th: 98762
- 29^th: 106554

Info about the current ad slots:
https://bitcointalk.org/adrotate.php?adinfo

Auction rules

Post your bids in this thread. Prices must be stated in BTC per slot. You must state the max number of slots you want. When the auction ends, the highest bidders will have their slots filled until all eight slots are filled.

So if someone bids for 8 slots @ 5 BTC and this is the highest bid, then he'll get all 8 slots. If the two highest bids are 8 slots @ 4 BTC and 1 slot @ 5 BTC, then the first person will get 7 slots and the second person will get 1 slot.

- When you bid, all of your previous bids are automatically canceled.
- All bid prices must be divisible by 0.5.
- The bidding starts at 0.5.
- The auction end time is 05:00:00 on December 7, UTC. Countdown (http://free.timeanddate.com/countdown/i2u518av/cf12/cm0/cu4/ct0/cs0/ca2/co0/cr0/ss0/cac000/cpc000/pcfff/tcfff/fs100/szw448/szh189/iso2011-12-07T05:00:00). (The end time may be extended -- see below.)
- If two people bid at the same price, the person who bid first will have his slots filled first.
- Bids are considered invalid and will be ignored if they do not specify both a price and a max quantity, or if they could not possibly win any slots

If any valid bids occur less than 30 minutes before the auction end time, then the auction will be extended by 30 minutes. If any valid bids occur less than 30 minutes before the new end time, then the auction will be extended again, etc. The time will not extend beyond 6 hours total.

You must pay for your slots within 24 hours of receiving the payment address. Otherwise your slot may be sold to someone else.

I bid 8 slots at 0.5 BTC each.

4 slots at 3.5 bitcoin

Since these adverts seem to be working here, it might be a neat idea to implement an automated system where people can create their ad and bit on spots.  The ad would have to be approved, of course, but then it would show automatically in its slot.

I've thought about it, but I intend to remove ads after we switch to new forum software, so it seems like a waste of time.

Oh, okay.  That works.  Tasteful, useful, toned-down, relevant (text) ads can actually be a good thing too.  If they are relevant, people don't necessarily see them as an intrusion.

2 @ 1 each

I will take 5 at 1.5 btc each

There are only 8 slots and I have 4 of them at 3.5BTC.

You can't have 5 at 1.5BTC

We will take 5 @ 5 each

Current state:
Slots BTC Person
5 5 wm-center.com
3 3.5 Goat

1 slot at 4.5BTC

I meant to say 4 slots at 1.5 btc, and I can have the other 4 slots at a much lower price, unless others offer higher than me (which they did afterwords), am I correct? Someone explain this to me.

I should have said you can only have 4 slots @ 1.5 If you typed 4 there would not have been an issue. Thanks.

Sorry, my fault  :D

Bidding 2 slots at 4 BTC each.

Current state:
Slots BTC Person
5 5 wm-center.com
1 4.5 Goat
2 4 edd

bidding 2 @ 4.5

Auction ends in ~25 minutes.

Current state:
Slots BTC Person
5 5 wm-center.com
1 4.5 Goat
2 4.5 BTC Servers

I will take 1 slot at the lowest bid, 4.5 or 5?

I'll put you down for 5, since 4.5 isn't enough to get you in.

Your bid extends the auction by 30 minutes. (The auction will end when the countdown timer reaches +30 minutes.)

State:
Slots BTC Person
5 5 wm-center.com
1 5 Andrew Bitcoiner
1 4.5 Goat
1 4.5 BTC Servers