I see your point, Kevin. But at the same time, people come and go on any forum rather frequently. Fauna isn't the only way to converse with people, nor is it the only avenue for certain discussions. So, like I said, I don't really see how it could affect me in some monumental way.
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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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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....
Open discussion on the new "west"
- Thread starter Stardust
- Start date
Wilomn
New member
If you are asking about whether or not I care that someone pays the $100 and uses the Warning System, no, I really don't care at all. That is the criteria I have chosen for participation and ANYONE here can either use it or not. It wouldn't be the first time I put something on this site that went mostly unused, and certainly won't be the last. Heck, most people won't even KNOW about it for years, I think. How many members using the forum based classifieds even know about the classifieds control panel in place?
As for strictly enforcing the rules to try to make this a better site, been there and done that, and got nothing but headaches because of it. So I'm putting tools in place for YOU to do that sort of work if you are so inclined. I am using the paid membership as a method to determine YOUR resolve to actually and truly want to make that sort of effort. If you're not willing, thinking the cost is too great, well, neither am I, who has been asked to do this FOR FREE. I've already tried to do that. What about you? Think you can do any better an enforcing the rules here? Be fair, even handed, all seeing, impartial, unbiased, and never miss even ONE other person violating a rule that you dinged someone else for? Well here's your chance to try those shoes on for size.
Yes, I am requiring that you be within a narrowly selected criteria before you are allowed to do so, and you can take offense at that if you want, but that's just the way it is. Of all the possible ways for me to make a selection, THIS is the way I am choosing to do it.
And if you don't like it, well no, I really don't care. Because I was CERTAIN a percentage of members here were not going to like it, no matter what it was I did, even if I did nothing at all. So at HIGH NOON on Sunday, this IS being implemented regardless of who doesn't like it, nor who uses it or not.
Matter of fact, I may even then assign (or "draft" if you prefer) ALL Benefactor and Endowment level members to being forum moderators and turn back on the "Report a Post" function, so THEY will get the notifications of infractions within "their" forums that members feel they need to report. So as "someone" has suggested, I am going to delegate this sort of thing as much as possible. And as such abdicating my responsibility for that function by turning it over to those individuals who demonstrate that they WANT it.
So really and truly, NO, I don't care. Not to the extent that I am going to put the monkey back onto my back here. If you all want this site to be better, than YOU have to MAKE it better, not me trying to force it to be so.
Oh yeah, did I say "I don't care"? I can't remember........
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WebSlave
The thread is now locked. It's tantamount to having his tantrum, picking up his toys, the ones he doesn't want anyone else to use, and stomping out of the playground grumbling about how no one gets it.
Big Baby Syndrome.
As for strictly enforcing the rules to try to make this a better site, been there and done that, and got nothing but headaches because of it. So I'm putting tools in place for YOU to do that sort of work if you are so inclined. I am using the paid membership as a method to determine YOUR resolve to actually and truly want to make that sort of effort. If you're not willing, thinking the cost is too great, well, neither am I, who has been asked to do this FOR FREE. I've already tried to do that. What about you? Think you can do any better an enforcing the rules here? Be fair, even handed, all seeing, impartial, unbiased, and never miss even ONE other person violating a rule that you dinged someone else for? Well here's your chance to try those shoes on for size.
Yes, I am requiring that you be within a narrowly selected criteria before you are allowed to do so, and you can take offense at that if you want, but that's just the way it is. Of all the possible ways for me to make a selection, THIS is the way I am choosing to do it.
And if you don't like it, well no, I really don't care. Because I was CERTAIN a percentage of members here were not going to like it, no matter what it was I did, even if I did nothing at all. So at HIGH NOON on Sunday, this IS being implemented regardless of who doesn't like it, nor who uses it or not.
Matter of fact, I may even then assign (or "draft" if you prefer) ALL Benefactor and Endowment level members to being forum moderators and turn back on the "Report a Post" function, so THEY will get the notifications of infractions within "their" forums that members feel they need to report. So as "someone" has suggested, I am going to delegate this sort of thing as much as possible. And as such abdicating my responsibility for that function by turning it over to those individuals who demonstrate that they WANT it.
So really and truly, NO, I don't care. Not to the extent that I am going to put the monkey back onto my back here. If you all want this site to be better, than YOU have to MAKE it better, not me trying to force it to be so.
Oh yeah, did I say "I don't care"? I can't remember........
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WebSlave
The thread is now locked. It's tantamount to having his tantrum, picking up his toys, the ones he doesn't want anyone else to use, and stomping out of the playground grumbling about how no one gets it.
Big Baby Syndrome.
Stardust
human
Perhaps it is more of a matter of 
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. Wilomn
New member
Careful about honest opinions guys. I posted mine above, got dinged AND lost about 1000 karma points.
Gee, I'm sooooooooooooooooooo wounded.
I wonder if this is just for me or if everyone will have thier karma points lowered when dinged.
Oh well, whatever happens we all know it WILL be consistent. Right?
Gee, I'm sooooooooooooooooooo wounded.
I wonder if this is just for me or if everyone will have thier karma points lowered when dinged.
Oh well, whatever happens we all know it WILL be consistent. Right?
Well in looking at the people who will be able to issue warnings, I only see one maybe two that I would say have less than an even balance to the issues at hand. And again thats my feeling of the person, Wes, Rozann, Paul, Marcia or anyone else may feel differently. I am not even going to say who it is that hits the light switch for me. And given what I see I feel a lot more comfortable with just these 43 having the ability to moderate than I do the mass of people at contributor level, although I am holding my breath on some since there are those at contributor that i am sure will up their level just to be able to participate.
I think that in a few months will be the teller...but one thing is for sure we get to try it.
I think that in a few months will be the teller...but one thing is for sure we get to try it.