[Suggestion] wouldn't it be nice a new Category, "Promotions" ?

we could use it for threads promoting all sort of things

Spam and Why I'm banned incoming

I would be fine with it, if it wouldn't be included in the all category, so you would have to click the actual category to see them.

So basically, a category just for encouraging spam? Honestly, I'd rather not. It'll still show up in the main section with the rest.

some people do giveaways out of the kindness of there hearts. some do them to bribe others to join there steam groups, twitch, faceplant, ect... and now some people want to do giveaways to collect ad revenue.

umm. no.

I think I see where it's coming from but it wouldn't change anything, I assure you. It's like hanging those boxes saying "put flyers here" and then spammers still put flyers in the mailbox because nobody but the cleaning person takes the flyers from the "flyer box". We have ads and we have "group recruitment", and we have all kinds of promotion in the GAs, I think it's quite enough.

I think if you implemented it where you had to click on the section to view the discussions that it would be ignored - because of this I could see people just posting their promotions/ads in the other parts of discussions to get the traffic and causing bother for support/mods.

For that reason not implementing it in the first place sounds better to me, although I really wouldn't mind it being there.

Personally, its just encouraging more spamming even if it is in a specific section. Most people I suspect use all to see what the latest threads are so people will still see it. Keeping threads to a minimum makes seeing the latest thread more bearable so I would prefer to leave it as it is.

Nope.

I’m not sure I understand the point. Is this for SG events like the holiday thing, or “I have a YouTube channel and I want to promote it,” or something else? The first I think is covered by announcements, the second I don’t think we need a separate place for. People can create an off topic thread or put their info in the giveaway description. If I recall correctly the only rule is that you can’t require a like or a visit but you’re able to otherwise promote within reason. I don’t necessarily oppose the idea but I’m not sure what it would add.

How about more people help first to get rid of "Uncategorized" xD Then we put Promotions in that place. ^^
go, go! https://www.steamgifts.com/tools/categorize-discussions

if you click on "All", promotions threads won't show up. Only clicking on "Promotions" will show its threads.

So If I would like to see all threads I will have to open two tabs - one with "all" and second with "promotions".
That's plain stupid.

At least add category "actual all".

When making a proposal, you should start by detailing the presumed benefits, then continue on by detailing potential downsides and how to resolve them. I'm not getting anything of substance from the current topic (notably, I can't discern any benefit at all), which means there's no reason for me to be anything other than opposed to it.
All the more so since it seems to have some rather intuitive downsides [encouraging problematic behavior, even within a specialized area, tends to degrade overall site quality; For example, right now ad-bots can be suspended outright, but if there's a zone for them, that could lead to consistant server demands], on top of the basic issue of encouraging things that core site rules actively prohibit (ie, advertising and bot use).

a category for curators <333

I don't understand. Is this a section where I would go when I want to find out which publishers have their games marked down by 30% and who is selling t-shirts with unauthorised fan art?