• 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.

Just a thought on repetitive posting...

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Personally, I LOVE reading posts from new members. I love viewing things from their perspective and sometimes they even make sense.:) We have some very interesting young people on this board!

It would be helpful, if they would sympathize with us old guys with old minds and eyes and do all their thinking BEFORE hitting the "Submit" button. It's quite irritating to read several posts from the same person (sometimes a minute apart) correcting themselves, adding a thought (I do this sometimes), or just repeating themselves.

I am in NO way trying to tell others how or when to post. Post away..just trying to help make my own reading experience so much better (I'm selfish, self-absorbed, and plain mean that way). I've been told many times to "get over myself," but I am finding it extremely difficult to do that since I am ever so present in my own mind.:rofl:

Honestly, it would make my reading/learning experience so much better, and make the rest of you look so much more intelligent!:)

This post is "tongue-in-cheek" for those of you who don't know me and my brand of humor.:rofl:
 
Whut?
Could you, like, say that again? :D
 
It's just that this is how things are done now...
 
It's a texting world. Make a statement
Make another statement.
 
Putting together a paragraph is TOUGH. And when it is done, PUNCTUATION is too often nonexistant.
 
We're old...behind the times.
Just don't understand.
 
Personally, I like it that way.
Disregard textspeak. Gloss over the endless, run-on sentence unless something hints that it may actually contain something relevant (more often than not, nothing is lost by overlooking it, IMO - if I have to struggle to comprehend it, I don't care enough to bother).
 
hhmoore said:
Personally, I like it that way.
Disregard textspeak. Gloss over the endless, run-on sentence unless something hints that it may actually contain something relevant (more often than not, nothing is lost by overlooking it, IMO - if I have to struggle to comprehend it, I don't care enough to bother).
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:ack2:

I can always count on YOU to "get it." :rofl:
 
Nick, I seldom actually laugh out loud, but that was funny.(I'm also an old person, so I refuse to use 'lol').

Noelle
 
I usually think that several posts in a row by the same person(not obvious accidental double-posting the same thing) always looks like they think it'll mean more. Maybe if there's ten posts, it'll be the same as if ten DIFFERENT people posted!

It amuses me when I make up stuff for my little world. I like living here cause everyone gets along or I feed them to one of the dragons. Unless Lil Beachie objects, then he gets to send them to KP duty after doing push ups.

I'd string this out to several posts, but I'm too lazy. Sorry.
 
Wolfy-hound said:
I usually think that several posts in a row by the same person(not obvious accidental double-posting the same thing) always looks like they think it'll mean more. Maybe if there's ten posts, it'll be the same as if ten DIFFERENT people posted!
It amuses me when I make up stuff for my little world. I like living here cause everyone gets along or I feed them to one of the dragons. Unless Lil Beachie objects, then he gets to send them to KP duty after doing push ups.

I'd string this out to several posts, but I'm too lazy. Sorry.
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:rofl::rofl:
 
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