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"Random from user" ad template, for "selfish sharers" like me
I like the "Random from Category" and "Specific post" ad templates. I've recently been a "selfish sharer" and used the "Specific post" template to share one of my own questions.
This made me wonder if there are any other "selfish sharers" out there who might like to be able to share their own questions, but not a specific one. Is there demand for a "Random from user" ad template?
I imagine that making the image link could use much the same approach as currently used for "Random from Category", but I don't know how to link to the same random post that shows in the image (since it will change over time). For that matter, I don't know how to link to the random post generated by "Random from Category" either. Do people who currently use "Random from Category" just make it link to the relevant Category rather than the randomly chosen post? If so then I guess the "Random from user" image could just be made to link to that user's posts page. For example, my posts page has this URL:
https://codegolf.codidact.com/users/53890/posts
(This is assuming it's going to be a random post from that user for a specific site, such as Code Golf here, rather than a random post from that user from across the whole Codidact network. This seems consistent with the existing ad templates)
Even though that wouldn't link to the specific randomly chosen one of my own posts, I think the list of all my posts is sufficiently selfish for me...
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More suitable for sites with Challenges than Questions
For me personally, I'd most like a "Random from user from Category", so I could have an ad that shows a randomly chosen one of my posts from the Challenges category on Code Golf Codidact. Since Challenges are still open to new answers regardless of how old they are or how many answers they already have, I'd be perfectly happy with this being a uniformly random choice from all such posts.
Alternative version for sites with Questions
For sites on which Questions really are questions, rather than challenges, perhaps people would prefer something like "Random recent question from user" or "Random unanswered question from user", or both: "Random recent unanswered question from user".
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