• 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....

New registrations....

WebSlave

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It is what it is, but certainly not what it was.
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For years now I've been thinking that eventually new registrations will taper off here and the site will dip down into death spiral from lack of participation. I've always considered the growth here as being pretty slow for the number of registered members, as few seem willing to actively participate in any of the forums. So it's seemingly a race between new registrations providing enough participation to counterbalance the loss of those people who don't participate, or apparently leave the business or lose interest. I guess I'm always thinking that we have already crested, so the only direction is downward....

So I figure sooner or later the number of new registrations will eventually lose the race and this site will start the slide into obscurity. After all, how many more people are out there who haven't already found this place?

But darn, I seem to be processing more new registrations than ever lately....

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:shrug01: Beats the heck out of me where they are all coming from...

Not that I am complaining, mind you. Gives me something to do during retirement. I get to smack down spammers before they ever get even a toehold in here.... :reddevil:
 
WebSlave said:
:shrug01: Beats the heck out of me where they are all coming from...

Not that I am complaining, mind you. Gives me something to do during retirement. I get to smack down spammers before they ever get even a toehold in here.... :reddevil:
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I try to tell all of my customers to come here. It is a great way to get all sorts of information on all animals. (Can't take credit for those numbers though)
for the few that I have met who say they don't like the site, there are 3 times as many who do.
 
I also direct people here if they have any reptile-related questions. I do this mainly on Facebook or YouTube, but I've also participated in several herpetological societies where students have captive husbandry questions that I can't always answer. Don't know how many people have actually joined through the years because of those recommendations, but word of mouth is a powerful thing when you've got lots of members. That, and I've never liked how the forums are formatted on Kingsnake, which I believe is the next largest competitor? The other forums tend to be species specific, which I think limits member participation a great deal. Fauna is the only one that's completely free with a basic membership, and it covers the most topics, at least in my personal experience.
 
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