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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.
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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.
A Keepers Choice inquiry..
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nicolai
Philosophical Statesman
nicolai said:
Because AFTER he threatened my life in the hell forum i thought twice about dsending him money!!!!
Which is why I posted an inquiry.
Time lines...
1) We found leos on his pas 2 weeks ago and hadnt decided on making a purchase yet.
2) THE HELL INCEDENT HAPPENED
3) Resigned as MOd
3) thought twice about doing business with him and posted an inquiry (as a result of the threat)
there is the time line!!!
Wilomn
New member
I'm curious nic. Will all the mudslinging you are engaged in result in anything positive?
Or is this more akin to a temper tantrum by a child with limited nueral functions that is pretty much unable to articulate but can convey it's displeasure by crapping all over anyone foolish enough to come close enough to try and help?
Whatever is going on with you nic, you are not helping yourself in any positive manner whatsoever.
Or is this more akin to a temper tantrum by a child with limited nueral functions that is pretty much unable to articulate but can convey it's displeasure by crapping all over anyone foolish enough to come close enough to try and help?
Whatever is going on with you nic, you are not helping yourself in any positive manner whatsoever.
Go right ahead.
I told you the way fauna is heading, I did not want to be a mod anymore.
I never hid the fact that I did not care for some of Lucille's useless posts (check the posts in the mod forum - oh wait, you can't anymore) and that I think Rich has taken some serious mis-steps with what he has allowed to go on here and the way he has changed things.
Do you also remember me saying that if you are the type of "mod material" for fauna that I am glad I was no longer a mod?
You can cut and paste anything you want. I don't say one thing in one place and another thing in another place to "fit in" as you specifically said YOU do.
I told you the way fauna is heading, I did not want to be a mod anymore.
I never hid the fact that I did not care for some of Lucille's useless posts (check the posts in the mod forum - oh wait, you can't anymore) and that I think Rich has taken some serious mis-steps with what he has allowed to go on here and the way he has changed things.
Do you also remember me saying that if you are the type of "mod material" for fauna that I am glad I was no longer a mod?
You can cut and paste anything you want. I don't say one thing in one place and another thing in another place to "fit in" as you specifically said YOU do.
I will also say, I am no longer restricted to the moderator forums for my comment and facts of your actions. Before I was not allowed to speak of differences with another mod in a open forum, but now that you are no longer a mod, we will do it here.
nicolai
Philosophical Statesman
Wilomn said:
Where is the mud slinging? I made an inquiry. Is an inquiry mudslinging now. If everyone posts good happy things I helped him out, if people come on here and say they have been taken, i have saved myself and others some money. Isnt that how the boi works??
varnyard said:No Nic!! All eyes are on you!! Let us not waver from the facts that are on the table!!!
Did you miss this Nic, it is not about Steve!! It is all about you.
Wilomn
New member
You tried, unasked for, to help me once.nicolai said:
Let me help you.
Go home. Take a week off. Don't post anymore. You have totally made a complete dumbass out of whatever reputation you had. IF you're on meds, get the dosage checked. If you're not, you may seriously want to talk to someone, YOU are not dealing well with your internet life as of late.
Go, nic. Think. But go for a little while.
nicolai said:
That doesn't even make sense.
You just posted reasons and things you know about him. And now you "needed" to make an inquiry to decide????
Why make another thread when your mind was already made up???
I told you a while ago in a few BOI threads you were a joke....glad to see more see eye to eye with me....
Bill & Amy
Harley Rider
What person in their right mind would want to do business with a person that just threatened their life the day before?????? With that in mind can you still say this inquiry was for that purpose??? Get real!!!
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Originally Posted by nicolai
Where is the mud slinging? I made an inquiry. Is an inquiry mudslinging now. If everyone posts good happy things I helped him out, if people come on here and say they have been taken, i have saved myself and others some money. Isnt that how the boi works?? [/quote]
Not for nothing but you are making abolutely no sence now. Wilomn is giving you the same advice I gave you last week. Take a break from the forums. Remember when I said you need to have a beer, relax, and set off some fireworks on the 4th?
Should I cut and paste that for you?
Only I won't edit it to suite me like you do.
Originally Posted by nicolai
Where is the mud slinging? I made an inquiry. Is an inquiry mudslinging now. If everyone posts good happy things I helped him out, if people come on here and say they have been taken, i have saved myself and others some money. Isnt that how the boi works?? [/quote]
nicolai said:
Not for nothing but you are making abolutely no sence now. Wilomn is giving you the same advice I gave you last week. Take a break from the forums. Remember when I said you need to have a beer, relax, and set off some fireworks on the 4th?
Should I cut and paste that for you?
Only I won't edit it to suite me like you do.
Bill & Amy
Harley Rider
nicolai said:
NO!!!
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