• 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....

Rep Power...

There are a number of threads on this topic with EXCELLENT explanations that you can search out, possibly even linked at the bottom of this thread too!

In short, reputation is a way of determining how good or bad a person's POSTS have been on this site. Not whether or not they themselves are good or bad people. (though people with high negative reputation points tend to be people not worth listening to, imho).

Whenever someone says something that makes sense in the sort of way that makes you say "That was perfectly said" I give them a positive reputation point. I give those a lot more freely than negative ones. I have given negative points to those who recommend violence, spew profanity, break all the rules, or are just out-n-out jerks as evidenced by whichever nasty post they've recently made.

As a contributing member, in the USER CP section, you can see who has left you your negative and positive points. As a Paid Participant, I believe, you can only see what the comments on, but not who left them. I enjoy those comments. Frequently I'll see a good post that makes me think of a short one-line comment I've wanted to make to the author of the post so instead of a private message, I often send them a short message via the reputation system. I think it's a great system, even if it is abused from time to time.
 
I just gave Sasheena a "positive point" because I think she did an excellent job of explaining, even looked up a link to post for you.....and was generally exceptionally nice and helpful. :)

See how that works? You'll KNOW it when you come across a post that deserves a negative point, lol. ;)
 
Cat_72 said:
You'll KNOW it when you come across a post that deserves a negative point, lol. ;)
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Gotta pay to give negs Cathy. Registered users can only give positives. :bolt01:
 
Ah....my bad, I didn't check his membership status. TY for pointing that out Jim. :)

Again....need more coffee. LOL.
 
:bawling: Well then I'll give David some red ones for being a big MEANY. :bawling:
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Also kidding, of course. ;)
 
I think my rights to intelligent conversation have been violated in this thread.

I will write about this right that is not right right at the moment.

And faugh on the Wright Bros. Worthless dreamers.

Right?
 
wilomn said:
I think my rights to intelligent conversation have been violated in this thread.

I will write about this right that is not right right at the moment.

And faugh on the Wright Bros. Worthless dreamers.

Right?
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Where's Dumb-leavy when we need him? :hot:
 
If I'm RIGHT, I think it would be pointless for him to WRITE, as he probably has nothing LEFT to say......RIGHT?
 
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