• 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.

Editing and deleting posts

Editing and deleting posts has been limited to 60 minutes after posting for all non paying members.
 
If you're on a workstation or laptop can you see the options in the first image?

On a phone the edit and delete options are under the ... next to the Report link (I couldn't screen capture it), if you are a member.
 

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So annoying! I’ve been trying to update ads for a week now and can’t figure it out. Tried on desktop, same issue. I don’t have “edit” or “delete” options next to “report”
 
BRIANc_329 said:
So annoying! I’ve been trying to update ads for a week now and can’t figure it out. Tried on desktop, same issue. I don’t have “edit” or “delete” options next to “report”
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Did you READ this thread?

Editing and deleting posts has been limited to 60 minutes after posting for all non paying members.
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I didn't design this platform, bud. I am only using it to provide YOU with a place to try to sell your animals. FOR FREE, no less. How's the teeth looking in this free horse you are riding?
 
WebSlave said:
I didn't design this platform, bud. I am only using it to provide YOU with a place to try to sell your animals. FOR FREE, no less. How's the teeth looking in this free horse you are riding?
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Classy response from an owner! I had no idea you were the “owner/admin”… no one asked you to provide a free platform so if it isnt benefiting you then maybe you should make better business choices. Morph market is 1000x better anyways. Shaming the users of your platform for it being free, that’s a winning business plan. WINNING!
 
You got the level of "class" that your complaint deserved, in my opinion. If you act in a "classy" manner, perhaps you will receive a "classy" REaction. But I suspect this is a foreign and unfathomable concept to you. I do find in incredulous how people who slap at me are astonished when I just reply in like kind. :ROFLMAO:
 
Another question: is there any benefit to people who post in the Forums ? Especially informational, educational, newsworthy, and so forth.
Thanks.
 
Martin Nowak said:
Do you accept member payment method other than PayPal ?
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Not right now. I did look into expanding the options, but the outfits offering such services are rather intrusive with the personal information they want from me to set up an account with them. They want me to give them all of the information we are warned about keeping from transmitting via the internet to help deflect the possibility of identity theft. So I balked at the idea.
 
Martin Nowak said:
Another question: is there any benefit to people who post in the Forums ? Especially informational, educational, newsworthy, and so forth.
Thanks.
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There may be some sort of options in this new platform, but honestly I haven't tried exploring those darker corners of the admin section here. But honestly, if anything, it will probably just be valueless trinkets of some sort. I tried for years with the old platform to get people more engaged with discussions, but it was all for nothing. I guess most everyone gets that fill of such things from the social media sites nowadays.
 
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