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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.
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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.

Milksnake killed "the only good snake is a dead snake"

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Anyone from this New Hampshire community want to explain, intelligently to these fools, why it makes no rational sense to kill any snake one comes across, and that snakes don't 'go after' people?

The person who declares they don't care what they did at all then has the nerve to berate snake owners for raising rodents to feed their pets and for 'keeping wild animals'. The ignorance just keeps piling up.

Someone shared this with me but left the group, and they keep ignoring me when I said to post this link (if you can't see the Facebook page, some of the asinine comments are here: http://captiveanimallogic.blogspot.com/2014/08/hopelessly-ignorant-snake-killing.html

I can't join the group because I'm not in that area.
 
If you want to change someone's mind, the first thing is to listen, really listen, to what they have to say.
Irrational comments may be the product of what they might have heard in their childhood, or an event that frightened them and subsequent growth of fear when no one explained the event.
Calling them fools or berating them even if they are berating you is only going to escalate the situation and not change anyone's point of view.
Listen.
Try to understand.
Then start a non judgmental (hard as that might be) dialogue.
Once that person sees that you are listening, they may talk more, and maybe, after talking themselves out, and seeing that you are trying to understand, they may take a moment to listen to you.
That is the start. Nurture that start and you may after several conversations have someone who tries to understand you as much as you tried to understand them.
 
Unfortunately that's all I've been doing. I'm unable to comment on the thread. I think there's only one reason people act this way around reptiles, irrational fear. Our culture does a fine job of creating negative images of certain species. If there is no exposure of the truth, ignorance will prevail.
 
That might work in some instances, but from what I have seen over the years, most fools are bound and determined to remain fools no matter what. Facts contrary to their ignorant opinions are completely irrelevant.
 
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I'd have to agree. The guy simply stated he does not care about snake education, point blank. The girl who tried to reason with him was mostly courteous (at the start).
 
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