• 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....

Thank you, Rich!

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For lack of a better idea on where to put this, I want to put this here...

I want you to know that I really appreciate how much thought you put into this place. Most importantly, how you ask for our opinions before making a decision and take our thoughts into consideration BUT, still make the final call yourself. This way, there is member participation and support but not too much member control.

I'll tell you what prompted this....I've been a forum mod at a sims forum for nearly 2 years and we just had a big blow up over something trivial. A member suggested that we create a rule about "test" posts, making them a violation that the mods would have to enforce. Instead of making the best judgement call, and sticking by what he believed was right, the site admin let 3 forum members override him, and me. There is too much member control over there and this just made things worse. The members think they are in charge and this just confirmed it. Naturally, I am pissed because I have to deal with it on a daily basis, whereas the admin just pops in on occassion. But, I got to be thinking about this place and realized that I owed you this thank you...and an apology for being a thorn at times. ;)

So, again, thank you so much!!!
 
OH YEAH

I want you to know that I really appreciate how much thought you put into this place. Most importantly, how you ask for our opinions before making a decision and take our thoughts into consideration BUT, still make the final call yourself. This way, there is member participation and support but not too much member control.
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This is what keeps this site healthy!
 
It's a great site/place

Regardless of how you look at it, Rich can be very proud of his efforts here and that of Ken and Dr.Owens as well.

It is mostly a thankless job they do and it's moments like this I feel they deserve some praise for their continued efforts.

I think Rich has a site that is VERY unique here. Many friendships have been forged just because of this site. It's brought the herp community together on many different levels and it can only benefit from that.

I'd hate to think of the herp world with fauna!
 
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