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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 you give someone karma?

See the scales icon under your user name and basic info, the lower left next to the red/white "report post" icon.Mouse over it and it will hightlight Karma for user
 

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please let us know if you have any other questions about how it works, thanks!
 
I think that anyone can leave positive karma. If they haven't accumulated any karma points of their own, it'll be little more than a symbolic act, as they don't have any points to give.
 
Forward to today. I cannot leave karma. My scale icon is not where it used to be. Looking at all post of recent, no one has the scales for me to leave karma. Any ideas? I’m using my iPhone. It’s a 6s if that matters.

Thank you
Rich
 
Nothing has changed on this end that I am aware of. :shrug01:
 
Even as I look at your post, no icon or on anyone else’s. Not sure what I’m missing, Rich.
 
allreptiles1966 said:
Even as I look at your post, no icon or on anyone else’s. Not sure what I’m missing, Rich.
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I am not sure neither. I just gave you + karma just to prove to you that things are working fine for me with the karma system. And I have not heard of anyone else having a problem with it.
 
And from this test account I set up, I was also able to utilize the karma system. If I had to hazard a guess, and based on the lack of evidence from anyone else having this problem, I would have to conclude that the problem is on your end. Not sure why nor how, but that is what the evidence at hand is telling me.
 
Try logging in from a laptop/desktop not an iPhone.
 
I think I get the same problem Rich gets. I don't usually use a phone, but this is the display on Safari on an iPhone 8:
 

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The "Report" triangle icon is also missing.
 
Yeah, the icon is not showing. I will have to wait on checking on a laptop. I don’t own one anymore. But my granddaughter has one and I’ll check.
But I certainly cannot give out karma. Not that it’s important, but I like to give when due. IMO.
 
Sorry, but as I have said before, I don't use mobile devices for my internet access and especially for working on my websites. I would go blind (well, blinder) staring at that tiny phone screen as much as I do my desktop screen. And forget about the keyboard chores on those tiny keys. Being a touch typists is pretty much wasted on those chiclet sized keys, and I am not a thumb only typist.

Besides, how many of those devices would I have to buy and maintain (as well as pay for the connectivity services) in order to keep up with everything all users here are using to access the site? This site is not bringing in that much money to be able to afford to do buy every possible device that people would want me to have to be able to support their specific problems. Heck, I don't even turn on the cell phone I have but a couple times a week. The few times I tried accessing the internet with it, I quickly decided it wasn't for me. Give me my 27" screen and full sized keyboard, please and thank you.

So I am not able to recreate such problems caused or, only exhibited by, mobile device usage to access this site, much less be able to do anything about them. I have my hands full dealing with server OS upgrades, changes, and issues enough as it is without compounding things with mobile device software changes.

How long do you think it would have taken me to type out even this one message just using the keyboard on a cell phone? Yeah....
 
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