• 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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    Posted 08/15/2025
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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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    Addendum: 01/10/2026
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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 site improvement?

GradyJ

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I want to start by saying that I have been using this website for many, many years. (User name GradyJ) I actually preferred it over kinsnake.com and morphmarket. As soon as I knew you required payment for ads, I did it. I actually used to get as many hits from fauna as I did from the other two. I liked opening up the site and landing on a page that had all of the most recent animals listed. I literally opened it every day. Now it seems that wherever I go I have to page through the bold red scolding of how bad people who don't pay are. This is a real negative for me and, I'd imagine, many of the other who are looking to buy or sell or look. Its hard to say this without offending, but people don't really care how frustrated you are. There are more and more options available to both sellers and buyers so the key to maintaining a viable product is customer service. This doesn't mean free. The terms of what is required to be a seller should be made clear ONLY when someone looks to place an ad. There doesn't need to be a description as to why you need to pay but, if there is, it shouldn't be because "you don't understand how hard this is and people who don't pay suck!" If you have a website that people like and it works, they will continue to pay to use it. If I was a buyer, new to the site, and had to scroll through all of the negativity each time I wanted to look, I'd quit using the site. I can definitely say that the number of inquiries I get from Fauna since these changes started, and when I started paying, has gone down to almost zero. I don't mind paying the relatively higher advertising fees for MorphMarket because it works. I used to pay for Kingsnake.com but that website also went down the tubes. (The only animals listed currently are ball pythons.) I will gladly continue to pay for advertising here, maybe even increased rates, but it has to work and the Red Intro Rant needs to go.
Respectfully,
Grady
 
If you will look carefully, there is a red "X" in the upper right hand corner of the "rant". Click on that and it goes away and you don't see it again unless I change it.

As for your statement "If you have a website that people like and it works, they will continue to pay to use it." Well, that apparently is not true otherwise the situation would not be as it is today. Or IF true, then it plainly means that most people do NOT like this site. Which forces me to engage advertising via Google Adsense in order to keep the lights on. And I believe I expressed my opinion pretty plainly and accurately.

People don't want to hear what I have to say about the state of affairs in running this site? Yeah, well I guess not. Gets in the way of their advertising their animals for free without any intrusions, huh? Sorry, if my decision to explain to people WHY I do something aggravates them.

Quite frankly, MY experience has been that people don't pay attention to anything unless it is taped to a two by four that smacks them on the forehead. You would be aghast at the number of email notices that people will reply to even though it PLAINLY states in the subject line to NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL.

Without trying to be painfully redundant, my actions are a REACTION to necessities of running this site, not something done without copious amounts of consideration and forethought. Point of the matter is, I really don't need this site. Unless it is providing something for ME that is worth my time and effort, then it will go away. No one would care? Well fine by me. As mentioned, there are other places people can go instead.
 
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