• 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.

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Upon further inspection of his dear friends and companions, Ferdinand confirmed that he had inadvertently squeezed the very life out of those that he was trying so desperately to save.
 
"Oh, well", he thought to himself. "I will eat Ralph, and offer Alice to the new love of my life, provided that she didn't drown in the flood".
 
All of a sudden several nuclear warheads went off at the same time, Killing everyone and everything, it was hundreds and thousands of millennia before life started over, but when it did......
 
Quite unexpectedly, a small amoeba named Freddy Jackson crawled out of the primordial ooze of a new era.
 
FJ began to read the only records that civilization had ever existed, which was a recording of the entire history of the BOI, which luckily had been translated into amoebese..
 
Or at least what appeared to be a more feminine specimen, as single-celled organisms don't possess sex organs or gender difference.
 
But he knew she was female because she was carrying a pink Juicy Couture handbag, and his heart swelled with longing, even if his other parts couldn't cuz he didn't got none.
 
"Not tonight, amoeba-dude", JuicyGirl said, "I have a terrible headache .. what with all the flooding and end-of-the-world stuff."
 
So he picked up a six pack and decided to go fission, and vowed to find a amoebette that was more compliant in the future since this honey wouldn't ride- asexual division was OK at times, but a guy needs the real thing sometimes.
 
BUT! At the moment he decided to go fission, he realized that he didn't have to go far ... as he had, in fact, fissioned up his perfect match.
 
But, I digress...perfect fission & perfect matches aside, the weight of the world was on Freddy's shoulders--literally.
 
He had to do JUST the right thing in order for Ferdinand II to exist in 5236 generations, let alone attempt the perilous journey to California (with an achin in his hea aaart)
 
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