• 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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lol man I begin to think I need to really earn a Darwin award at times.
as some Know I am disable ( remember ) I recently lost my disablilty (due to getting married, which makes no since a lot of the time). Well I have been trying to find a Job ( yeah I know it hard ) but given my history and the risk that I would possible be for their insurance. I not holding much luck/hope at this point. any how. I was told I have to monitor my blood sugar levels. ( about Christmas time) I have had a lot of lightheaded and minor blacking out events( I don't remember going form point a -b but I gotten there ok ( so far) and along with the other signs of it. I never though of it cause I am always pushing myself past my limits to get what ever I assigned myself to do that day done.
Well today I set myself the basic ( simple) task of cleaning almost the entire house( including my wife's and mine laundry) so far I done dishes, vacuuming( up and down stairs) most the laundry, bagging up all the trash to go out, and as well as cleaning the reptile tubs( this was not on the list until tomorrow) Well in the 2 hours it taken me to do above items.my blood sugar level has gone from roughly a 126 to a low 80s ( based on the info I was given the 80s level is normal if fasting for blood work), I know with me if i get below 83-73 I start to get the shakes, headache and all those not so great systems. at 64 and lower I can pass out. which make no sense to me at time. It seems that in my family ( so far ) if there is a medical issue I seem to get it in one form or another. I have cerebral palsy(reason I am on disability)( my legs will give out for not reason also making me a higher fall risk), the diabetic issues( hypoglycemic) at times ( in my book I can burn the sugar faster than the body willing to release it ) I have back issues ( most likely from abusing myself by lifting heavy items all the time/ partly due to the Cerebral Palsy ) ( my lower back seems to arch a little more than normal people and cause it to pinch ( feeling) in the lower back ( I can walk with out pain/discomfort if I am leaning on a shopping cart while in the store I can get around a little better /longer than I can without it.) and who knows what else they may find wrong with me in the future lol. I am a walking( gimping/waddling test subject if they wanted one lol)

I can say outside of my loving wife and my reptiles My life sucks royally to the point I would probably be a hermit type person you read about in the newspaper. I hate to see what would happen to me if I had to work a real job ( coming to that )
 
I guess my sense of humor must have left me, because I really didn't see anything to laugh about there....... :shrug01:
 
lol I know WebSlave I just could nt figure a good title so I used what popped into my head ( one of those if you could see/feel how I was right then when I typed it up my sugar was low so I may of not made much sense. ( also I found out the spellchecker for internet explore is for 32 bit of the and not the 64bit I use ( so there goes my proper spelling help lol )
 
The spell check button here on this forum when you make a post should work on both 32 bit and 64 bit operating systems.
 
At least you find humor in all those negative issues. Thats a plus. Keep your head up and keep your health as your main priority and you will be fine!!
 
well the spell checker ( when you spell check needs to be installed ( and it keeps wanting t be installed every time I click WebSlave) but it ok I also upgraded to ie explore 10 so it might a bug with it still lol..

Well I have 2 lovely low sugars since last night one about 10 pm while wife and I were chitchatting before bed and one earlier today while a friend visited me. needless to say the sudden drops are a pain in the ass. I had checked it a little before he came by and it was fine about 105 he was not here 30 minutes and he said I looked pale. (I went to get up and checked it and fell right out into his lap practically) needless to say he was panicking puts me on my side and goes grabs the stuff to check it a whopping 62. well I came around real fast when he was pricking my finger and almost busted him in the face out of reflex lol. needless to say I now have my wife's sister watching me to make sure I am not breaking anything.
 
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