• 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.

  • IMPORTANT! PLEASE READ!! About the Google Adsense ads being displayed

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    Yeah, I know. They are a pain in the butt. But they pay the bills to keep my server running. Just a fact of life, I am afraid.

    Want to get rid of them? Simple. Just become a Contributor level member or above and they will be gone. -> Please click HERE."

    Is that too much for me to ask of you to keep this site running? Well, sorry about that. I too wish I could get everything for free. But alas.....

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    Google Adsense ad revenue for December, 2025 was just $30 over the cost of the lease for the server running this site. So, in effect, the money providing the incentive for me to continue running this site is coming SOLELY from the paid memberships and sponsorships here. Which honestly ain't much....

Fauna Tips & Tricks

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I think it might be both fun and educational to start a thread where everyone can post any tips and tricks they have discovered within Fauna. Some of these may be second nature to some members, but there will inevitably be someone who can benefit from these postings.

I’ll start off with a couple of easy ones.

“New Posts” tab
This tab is located on the secondary menu down from the top of any page. Clicking on this will give you a listing of all the new posts (up to 100) since your last visit. This is a quick way to see what’s going on without manually searching through all of the forums.


“Display Modes”
Located at the top of every page in any thread, this drop-down menu allows you to select the manner in which the thread is displayed.

Linear: (the default mode) Posts are displayed in chronological order.

Hybrid: Displays a chronological index in a separate window. This is very handy for finding a specific post in a large thread.

Threaded: Similar to the Hybrid option, but also breaks down the post into a threaded view.

Let's see what everyone else can add.

Thanks,
 
Use of Quotes:

To use a quote from someone else in your post; you simply hit the "Quote" button located in the lower right hand corner of that person's reply. If parts of the statement are not needed, you can simply delete the parts you don't want to use. Just make sure the end of the quote ends with [/QUOTE] and the beginning of the quote starts with
 
User CP

If you hit the User CP button upon returning you will see all the threads you have replied to since your last visit [New Subscribed Threads:]. If you click on the chevron [V] you will automatically go to the most recent thread since your previous visit.

You can also see your reputation points [Latest Reputation Received].
 
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