There's been discussion lately about encouraging people to post questions that are only slightly GIS-related to a different SE site.
Instead of this advertisement...
... I would like to see questions posted from other sites that have one of my favorite tags.
For example: arcobjects
is a favorite tag of mine. Both codereview.SE and gis.SE have an arcobjects
tag. Therefore when I load the page, the sidebar panel should have an affinity for questions from other sites that have the arcobjects
tag.
Update
I found the term I was looking for: Contextual Advertising. The ads that appear might be based on a users favorite tag, or any number of other factors. As a geographer, I can't resist suggesting that a users Location would be a factor. But other factors could be based on things like the tags of questions recently answered. Certainly a bit of random Funk music would be acceptable, but right now the signal to noise ratio for these ads is pretty low IMO.
Update 2
Some of the advertisements, like this one, might not be suitable for many workplaces.