• 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.

How do I delete attachments?

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I was in "Manage Attachments" trying to load a couple of pics. The software informed me that I was exceeding my limit and offered me a link to see all of the previous attachments that I had on Fauna. But I don't see how to delete attachments.

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-John Albrecht
 
John,
You have to be a paid member delete attachments uploaded on the fauna server. If you linked the attachment from a site like photobucket, you can just delete the attachment on the site you linked it from.
 
The ability to delete attachments is controlled by a member's ability to be able to edit and/or delete the message within the forum in question. And yes, we are talking about capabilities that I have made as perks of the paid memberships. There is really very little in the way of incentives I can offer members to become paid members, so I had to make some decisions along those lines.

Each non paying member can post 1 megabyte of images here. Multiply that out by the potential of every registered member here eventually posting that many images, and we have about one third of my hard drive on my server being consumed by those images. When it comes time for me to have to pay for a bigger hard drive, who do you think is helping to foot that bill? So of COURSE I need to give the paying members here a bigger piece of the pie.
 
Rich,where do I find the info. on how to become a paid member?Is it paid yearly?How much?
 
Go to your "user cp" and it is on the left of the screen under "paid subscriptions". :)
 
Thanks Bill and Amy.Is paypal the only method of payment accepted?If so,I'll have to get an account.
 
Private message Webslave, I think you could probably send payment to him but I am not sure. Glad I could help. :)
 
Actually I have been meaning to set up an order form page for that purpose, but heck, just not enough time to go around I guess. In the meantime, I have set up an option on my http://www.SerpenCo.com website for this purpose.

Thanks.
 
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