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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.
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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.

Misuse of power...

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Somehow nephrurus and E2MacPets gained admin-type powers in the chat room and were abusing them, booting people and freezing them at will. It was highly annoying and altogether unpleasant. Would it be too much to ask that you keep a tighter reign over who winds up with powers in the chatroom and that they be limited to appropriate usage?

-Kat Hall
 
Unfortunately, it seems that timing was of the essence here. From what I gather, the entire incident last about 5 minutes, and apologies were issued. I believe Kat was an unwilling participant in something that wasn't intended for her.

However, I take responsibility. I'm sorry if anyone was offended, and I believe the situation is resolved.
 
I was there

I was there. The two parties mentioned were goofing with each other for what I believe was approximately 3 minutes (No, I did not time it but I doubt it was an entire 5 min) Kat was unintentionally involved. I apologized to her and explained that she was un-intentionally involved in a bit of goofing between friends. I know both parties also apologized but she had them on "Ignore" at that moment so I told her they apologized. Apparently apologies were not acceptable.

If there is anyway to obtain a transcript of the chat perhaps that will clear this all up as what it was. A little bit of goofing that was promptly apologized for, not an intentional malicious act as Kat seems to think.
 
I feel horrible about what happened and I would like to apologize.

The chatroom was entirely filled with regulars tonight, and Jungle decided to make us all temporary moderators as a joke. In the process of us goofing around Kat came into the room and was accidentally booted, frozen, etc a few times before we caught on to what was happening and calmed down a bit. In fact Kat did not know she was booted until we admitted it and told her who did it.

She responded by putting us on ignore, including Cheryl who tried to explain for us, and then coming here and posting.

As I said, I feel horrible about what happened, and until I saw this post did not know that Kat's feelings were hurt. But at the same time, I do not like seeing my name connected with "abuse of power" for what was simply a few friends goofing around with eachother. I do not like that what happened in a few minutes time among friends is now a permanent outcry because someone would not even listen to an apology let alone accept it.

It was a misunderstanding about something that was supposed to just be all in good fun. I wish there was no blame being placed anywhere and we could all agree to move on?
 
I am aware that they were goofing off, Cheryl, however I do not appreciate being the target of goofing off, especially by people I don't know. If I believed I was the target of malicious intent, I would have worded my post quite a bit differently. It was an abuse of admin power, pure and simple, which is what my post was in reguards to.

-Kat Hall
 
How about if we just reduce the amount of "goofing off" on the chat board altogether? If someone needs to do some minor testing, find a willing participant and go to one of the other rooms where another user won't be a victim of collateral damage.

I would really like this to be the last time I hear about this sort of thing going on in there.

Thanks.
 
I feel bad for kats "feelings" getting hurt but, seriously how many of the regulars in the chat room actually "know"(kat's definition of "know" is having actually met the person) each other. I have only actually met 1 person on the chat of the 50 or so that i talk to on a regular basis.

We have this same proble over on the BC forum all the time, Its hard to convey a message properly through a forum or a chat room.

This post was made less than 5 minutes after the inccident took place, and i am still of the opinion that E2 and Myself meerly pushed kat over the edge that she was already standing on.
 
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