• Posted 12/19/2024.
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    I am still waiting on my developer to finish up on the Classifieds Control Panel so I can use it to encourage members into becoming paying members. Google Adsense has become a real burden on the viewing of this site, but honestly it is the ONLY source of income now that keeps it afloat. I tried offering disabling the ads being viewed by paying members, but apparently that is not enough incentive. Quite frankly, Google Adsense has dropped down to where it barely brings in enough daily to match even a single paid member per day. But it still gets the bills paid. But at what cost?

    So even without the classifieds control panel being complete, I believe I am going to have to disable those Google ads completely and likely disable some options here that have been free since going to the new platform. Like classified ad bumping, member name changes, and anything else I can use to encourage this site to be supported by the members instead of the Google Adsense ads.

    But there is risk involved. I will not pay out of pocket for very long during this last ditch experimental effort. If I find that the membership does not want to support this site with memberships, then I cannot support your being able to post your classified ads here for free. No, I am not intending to start charging for your posting ads here. I will just shut the site down and that will be it. I will be done with FaunaClassifieds. I certainly don't need this, and can live the rest of my life just fine without it. If I see that no one else really wants it to survive neither, then so be it. It goes away and you all can just go elsewhere to advertise your animals and merchandise.

    Not sure when this will take place, and I don't intend to give any further warning concerning the disabling of the Google Adsense. Just as there probably won't be any warning if I decide to close down this site. You will just come here and there will be some sort of message that the site is gone, and you have a nice day.

    I have been trying to make a go of this site for a very long time. And quite frankly, I am just tired of trying. I had hoped that enough people would be willing to help me help you all have a free outlet to offer your stuff for sale. But every year I see less and less people coming to this site, much less supporting it financially. That is fine. I tried. I retired the SerpenCo business about 14 years ago, so retiring out of this business completely is not that big if a step for me, nor will it be especially painful to do. When I was in Thailand, I did not check in here for three weeks. I didn't miss it even a little bit. So if you all want it to remain, it will be in your hands. I really don't care either way.

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    Some people have indicated that finding the method to contribute is rather difficult. And I have to admit, that it is not all that obvious. So to help, here is a thread to help as a quide. How to become a contributing member of FaunaClassifieds.

    And for the record, I will be shutting down the Google Adsense ads on January 1, 2025.
  • Responding to email notices you receive.
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    In short, DON'T! Email notices are to ONLY alert you of a reply to your private message or your ad on this site. Replying to the email just wastes your time as it goes NOWHERE, and probably pisses off the person you thought you replied to when they think you just ignored them. So instead of complaining to me about your messages not being replied to from this site via email, please READ that email notice that plainly states what you need to do in order to reply to who you are trying to converse with.

How to get into **HELL**

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I have alternated between shutting down this forum completely and just swinging the doors open wide and let the chips fall where they may. One reason I feel I really can't shut it down and delete the threads is because there are actually some threads in the HELL forum that started out in the BOI, and therefore I kind of feel obligated to keep them around, regardless of the unpleasant turn to the worse that the discussions took. But on the other hand, making this completely open to the public, web spiders and all, just is not something I really want to do.

So I struck what I think is a reasonable compromise. Instead of the $10 fee I used to have to gain access, I have made it free, but a member must EXPLICITLY take the steps necessary to access the HELL forum. So this is strictly voluntary, and anyone joining in this forum does so with the understanding that this is not for everyone, and specifically may not be for YOU. So I really don't want to hear any complaints at all about what goes on in HELL, and your participation is at your own risk.

If you SHOULD gain access and decide it is NOT for you, then you can also opt out of that access and no longer be tempted to go in there unless you go through the steps again to access the forum.

So are we straight on this?

Very well, here are the steps to gain entrance to the HELL forum..

  • At the top of the screen in the darker green colored menu bar, to the far left is a clickable link that says "User CP". You need to click on that link.
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  • This will take you to a page with a menu displayed. The item you are interested in, is towards the bottom where is says "Group Memberships".
    hell02.jpg

  • Click on that link to bring up the next display, which shows you all (at this time only one exists) of the member groups that you can join. Of course, the one you are interested in says "Demons":
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  • In the column to the right of the display (Join Group), there is a clickable link you need to click on to SPECIFICALLY choose to enter the HELL Forum.
  • Once you do that, you are then presented with a screen that shows you all of the membergroups you are signed up for with the option to LEAVE the HELL forum if you decide to do so in the future:
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  • That's it! You are now a member of the Hell forum and should be able to read the content within the threads, as well as post there.

    Now that we have that out of the way, what is that forum REALLY for?

    It's intent is to give everyone a place where they can really let their hair down and let loose with topics that you may not feel real comfortable posting in other more public areas of a message board site. Photos are OK as long as they are tasteful and not going too overboard. Adult language is acceptable, but again, let's not get too carried away. Moderation will be probably non existent except in extreme cases.
 
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