Hi Bill, my friend and all!
Here my 0,5 cents,
It is not a good idea make “free”, ads, in all bots or tournaments channels. people using blitzin will hate you. As someone said before, you will get 5 or more lines with the same information and it will be really annoying… I think using any other interfaces like Dasher could be annoying too…
Maybe, you could open any ads in some specifics channel. For example, running an standard tournament you can announce in the Sttourney channel (obviously if there is not just the STT games day)
I was used (when I was a TM ) to make short ads in the hispanic channels too, just if I need some few players to fill and start a tournament… and only ONCE time. Maybe it could be annalized in any others channels where TMs know that could be usefull to get more players.
So, i think all kind of tournaments ads should be annalized being carefull to not generate too many spam without sense. Maybe you could also think in any specific “pop ads” to join in any open tournament when you just log in. Just a single and silly idea (I think in any other time was used).
Hugs my friend Bill and to the great ICC community
Carlos (Shen21)