• 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....

Possible problem with a banner ad...

Seamus Haley

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Noticed today as I am loading some pages, ads for Dove are popping up pretty frequently in the banner rotation below the menu bar. These are flash ads and, at least in my browser, they obscure the drop-down menus that usually appear over the banner ad space with quick-links or the basic text search box. I'll take and ad a couple screenshots to show what I am seeing here-

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The ad is remaining "above" the fauna menus, making the search box unuseable from a page with the ad present and the center of the quick links list inaccessible.
 

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I had the same problem with a different banner ad a month or 2 ago, Seamus.....everyone told me it was just me. ;)

I have the same trouble with this one as well.
 
TripleMoonsExotic said:
If you use FireFox you can use AdBlock and get rid of them completely.
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The R.I.P. extension works well too for these type of ads that intrude on the functionality of a site.
 
Seamus Haley said:
Noticed today as I am loading some pages, ads for Dove are popping up pretty frequently in the banner rotation below the menu bar. These are flash ads and, at least in my browser, they obscure the drop-down menus that usually appear over the banner ad space with quick-links or the basic text search box. I'll take and ad a couple screenshots to show what I am seeing here-

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The ad is remaining "above" the fauna menus, making the search box unuseable from a page with the ad present and the center of the quick links list inaccessible.
Click to expand...

Yeah, I see what you mean. Fortunately Google gives me the option of blocking certain ads, so I blocked that one. If any other ones are noted that affect the use of the functionality of this site, please let me know and I will axe them as well.

Thanks.
 
That annoying Dove ad that blocks the search function is back, Rich........
 
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