Is there a possibility to increase the limit of ads (20)? I am consolidating all of my weight and I have hit the limit. Are others finding this an issue if not I guess this request can be ignored. Also, Shawn are you still planning to eliminate the weight cap? Just curious. Thanks for all of the recent enhancement - really nice work .
This is a fairly big problem for me as well. I would like to consolidate my accounts, but am forced to keep them separate in order to be able to manage all my ads. Perhaps a limit that is tied to weight could be implemented. e.g., $maxEnabledAds=20*ceil($weight%20,000)--20 enabled ads for every 20K weight you have (including consolidation) under an account, or something like that. Problem with that is that weight fluctuates, so if your weight drops, you can have more ads enabled than you would now be allowed to. It would be nice if the limit on enabled ads could be increased to, say, 40. Though we don't know if this would be a more complicated task than it seems, or cause too much server stress. I doubt server stress would be a problem though, as I doubt most people use the current 20 limit as it is. If it is easy to implement this change, I think it would be well-received among the minority of users for whom this is a problem.
I agree - this would be very useful. It would be nice to have all my accounts consolidated to one master account, then distribute the weight across all my ads. As you said - the only way to get more than 20 Ads is to maintain lots of smaller accounts. I understand there must be some limit, but rather than linking it to total weight, how about just passing the 20 ad allowance to the master account along with the weight. Same total number of ads possible (same resources). This would make sense to me as there is no use having 20 ads available on an account that passes all it's weight to a master account.
If this happened, I'd also like to request allowing more control over the weight distribution as the number of ads under one account could be much larger. Maybe a percentage option or something? Don't know how it's implemented so both ideas might not be practical. But worth asking. (hope I'm not going to get slammed by the co-op 'gurus' - again)
This would have a similar problem to what I mentioned above--if the child account is removed (un-consolidated) from the master account, and there are more than 20 enabled ads, which ones get disabled? Shawn could make it so that ads are associated to one account or the other, and separating accounts would automatically separate the ads. However this would be far more time-consuming than simply changing a single variable. I don't think it would be worth it, since most would not consider this such an important issue. Just upping the limit shouldn't require much work, and I don't think it would cause any problems for the network. Though I could be wrong on both. This would be nice too--currently, with the 15 weight limit, if you have a bunch of ads than you are somewhat limited in how you want to distribute the weight. But I'm thinking Shawn won't want to raise the limit too high for aesthetic reasons (the drop-down box would get huge). Perhaps it could be an exponential scale--increments by 1 up to 15, and larger increments thereafter; e.g. additional options for weights of 20, 30, 50, 75, and 100; or something like that. I think this might require only a couple minutes worth of modification.
Again - not knowing how this is implemented it's impossible to say what's easy and what's not. One suggestion would be - when a site is released (un-consolidated) the ad limit on the master account is dropped 20 and if the number of active ads exceeds the new limit, the extra ads are just disabled. As for which ones - doesn't really bother me - if I'm unlinking accounts I'm most likely reorganizing ads too. One problem that occurred to me tho - it would be easy to game the system by setting up dummy accounts with zero weight, so I guess any solution would have to include the weight somehow (or at least validation would have to come into it) I'm guessing the ad limit is purely a resources issue... None of this is a big deal - but it certainly would make managing groups of accounts much easier.
It's going to be raised at some point... just not quite yet (it was already raised from 10 to 20). The main issue right now is that the ads are stored in the server's RAM to make delivery of them very fast. That of course starts running into scalability problems when you start having multiple gigabytes worth of ads, so some other options are already being looked at.