created by MaeronTargaryen on 05/02/2025 at 17:54 UTC*
6 upvotes, 5 top-level comments (showing 5)
The problem:
We are constantly trying to find new advertisers on the sub. However as you probably have seen it over the last years, a lot of companies go through revenue-sharing partnerships to do their advertising, or in simpler words: referral links.
The idea is simple, the partner gets a link, and when people use the link for something like creating an account or purchase a product, the partner gets some money.
The solution:
As a new form of advertising, we could start having referral links on behalf of the sub. Let’s say Exchange X wants to do it with us, we run a special event post to announce the partnership and share the link, and then we add the link on the sidebar with a message like “join Exchange X” and that’s it. We could consider adding the link to some automod comments, for example if there is “exchange” in the title of a post, an automod comment could be pinned to invite people to join exchange X. It could be spammy though so this is just an idea.
With the money we would buy and burn moons regularly.
Normal users would still not be able to shill their stuff via referral just like we don’t allow random advertising on the sub
Pros:
Cons:
EDIT: another big “con” that came to me later so it’s important I update this: in normal advertising, we sell the space and the advertiser does the work. They design the banner or create the post, they answer the AMA questions, etc. And even if we hope their campaign will be successful, it’s more their problem than ours. But if we are given a referral link by a company, it’s our job to make it visible enough so people use the link. If not many people use a link, then we potentially burn less moons than if we had done a normal advert
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Comment by SevereArrivals at 06/02/2025 at 22:12 UTC
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There is no reason not to do it as it could be huge for the growth of MOONs and wouldn't be too spammy if done right.
It wouldn't be too different from regular AMA's/events either, which have links attached to them as well.
Comment by fan_of_hakiksexydays at 06/02/2025 at 19:52 UTC
3 upvotes, 1 direct replies
I think it's OK if we filter them out and present them in a non-spammy way.
The main reasons for not allowing referrals was originally to avoid too much spam, and mainly to protect the users from so many scammy and malware referral links.
Putting a limited amount of referral links only for partners, and only checked and vouched links, should avoid those issues, and keep them under our control.
Comment by kirtash93 at 07/02/2025 at 08:47 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Only if you add r/KirtVerse as an approved shiller /s
I like the idea.
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