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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.

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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....

Looking for discussion forum sponsors

Kelli,

What I did was pull the sponsor links from any forum where the sponsors apparently had abandoned their support for that forum. In those cases where I could see the sponsors were taking an active interest and participating, I let the highlighted links remain there. But I am not accepting anyone else as sponsors for any of the forums, as it is apparent to me that this concept has failed. No sense beating a dead horse over it. That is what I meant by terminating the sponsorship program. Considering all of the forums I have on this site, the number of volunteers was embarrassingly small, so why bother? We're approaching 13,000 registered members and I can't get any more people interested in participating in the discussion forums? What's wrong with that picture?

But you and Justyn are doing OK with the Leopard Gecko forum. So I didn't remove either of the links for you guys there. I figure if a sponsor can't check in and post replies to queries or start a new discussion within a week or two, then there is no sense keeping them as a sponsor. So I simply removed them.

I just figure the discussion forums are of little or no interest to most of the people that come to this site, so that's just the way it is. I have run out of ideas on how to change that, so I will just let things run their course, whatever that may be.

Thanks.
 
I personally thought that the forums were slowly picking up. I say within time it will get there. Just need to bring the people over. I'll see what I can do on a couple of the other forums and getting people to post.

WebSlave said:

I just figure the discussion forums are of little or no interest to most of the people that come to this site, so that's just the way it is. I have run out of ideas on how to change that, so I will just let things run their course, whatever that may be.

Thanks.
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Oh I wish you'd reconsider.
I am very very very enthusiastic, and would defenitley be working nonstop, adding to the Rosy, Sand, and Ground Boa forum. I'd be taking the time to format my pictures accordingly, and post those as well.
Please just give me one shot, at the Rosy, Sand, and Ground Boa forum, I will give it all I have, and bring that forum (which seems to be relatively slow in general, compared to some others) to life.
You wont be disappointed in the least bit.
I did send that PM before I read this thread, so I am not being dramatically desperate LOL.
 
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