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    I am still waiting on my developer to finish up on the Classifieds Control Panel so I can use it to encourage members into becoming paying members. Google Adsense has become a real burden on the viewing of this site, but honestly it is the ONLY source of income now that keeps it afloat. I tried offering disabling the ads being viewed by paying members, but apparently that is not enough incentive. Quite frankly, Google Adsense has dropped down to where it barely brings in enough daily to match even a single paid member per day. But it still gets the bills paid. But at what cost?

    So even without the classifieds control panel being complete, I believe I am going to have to disable those Google ads completely and likely disable some options here that have been free since going to the new platform. Like classified ad bumping, member name changes, and anything else I can use to encourage this site to be supported by the members instead of the Google Adsense ads.

    But there is risk involved. I will not pay out of pocket for very long during this last ditch experimental effort. If I find that the membership does not want to support this site with memberships, then I cannot support your being able to post your classified ads here for free. No, I am not intending to start charging for your posting ads here. I will just shut the site down and that will be it. I will be done with FaunaClassifieds. I certainly don't need this, and can live the rest of my life just fine without it. If I see that no one else really wants it to survive neither, then so be it. It goes away and you all can just go elsewhere to advertise your animals and merchandise.

    Not sure when this will take place, and I don't intend to give any further warning concerning the disabling of the Google Adsense. Just as there probably won't be any warning if I decide to close down this site. You will just come here and there will be some sort of message that the site is gone, and you have a nice day.

    I have been trying to make a go of this site for a very long time. And quite frankly, I am just tired of trying. I had hoped that enough people would be willing to help me help you all have a free outlet to offer your stuff for sale. But every year I see less and less people coming to this site, much less supporting it financially. That is fine. I tried. I retired the SerpenCo business about 14 years ago, so retiring out of this business completely is not that big if a step for me, nor will it be especially painful to do. When I was in Thailand, I did not check in here for three weeks. I didn't miss it even a little bit. So if you all want it to remain, it will be in your hands. I really don't care either way.

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    Some people have indicated that finding the method to contribute is rather difficult. And I have to admit, that it is not all that obvious. So to help, here is a thread to help as a quide. How to become a contributing member of FaunaClassifieds.

    And for the record, I will be shutting down the Google Adsense ads on January 1, 2025.
  • 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.

To Seperate or not to Seperate.

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Most of us who are looking to buy different herps like to browse through fauna everyday. I know I do. I find it hard to browse through the hundreds of ads in the boas/pythons section. There are just too many! If they were seperated it would be alot easier. Also they are not the same types/species. They really should be seperated. Granted most of these snakes do get large. It is my humble opinion that Faunaclassified should seperate the two types into their own sections for selling, trading, and the wanted pages.

We are an opinionated lot, us herpers. So feel free to leave your vote and post your repsonses.

Thanks
 
I think that by splitting them up into a boa section and a python section it would likely cause an added expense for the owner of this site. I also don't see the necessity or even the advantage for this. You say it is a pain to scroll through hundreds of ads, certainly there are not hundreds of ads which are added on each day - are there? I usually look around with in a time frame (each had has a listing date) or by seller.
 
I like the site the way it is for now. I know it had to take a lot of work to set up a site of this calibur and would probably take a lot of work to change over. As of now I do not think there is enough posts to warrant more catagories. If there start to be many more posts in the boa/python catagorie I would agree it would be a nice change. All in all this is one of my favorite sites. I do commend you Herpavian on contributing your ideas to the site. That is what makes a great community. I really like the group of herpers here for the most part. I am looking forward to many happy hours here.
Sacha Skaggs
 
HI GUYS,
IN ALL HONESTY, THERES MAYBE 10-15 BOID ADDS THAT ARE
ADDED EVERYDAY, AND THATS A GENEROUS NUMBER.
GOING THROUGH 10-15 ADDS DOESNT TAKE THAT MUCH TIME.
IF YOU SEPERATED BOAS AND PYTHONS I THINK IT WOULD JUST ADD ANOTHER UNEEDED "CLICK" WHEN ITS ALREADY EASY TO GO THROUGH THE SMALL NUMBER OF ADDS ADDED
EACH DAY.

GOD BLESS!
BEN SPARKS
C.R.C. <img src="http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':D'>  <img src="http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':D'>
 
I think it should be seperated.  No, it doesn't *need* to be now, as it isn't that large.  But personally I have had quite a few websites throughout the last few years, and I have always found it much easier to change while small, instead of waiting til it gets huge.  
I love this site, and many people do, and because of this, it is my opinion that it will only continue to grow, indefinately.  I feel that seperating now, or soon will save WebSlave some headaches later on.  I'm sure he has, but I know from my experiences, changing something this early may not be easy, but wait til you get 300 posts a day there, then its damn near impossible.  Then even people that want the change, get upset because "they can't find it".  

I also think that this will help people search for specific animals once the site does get bigger.  If you are looking for a colombian boa (ie), you definatley don't want to weed through 200 ball python posts to find it.

Ok.. I have said my peice.  Either way..webslave YOUR DOING EXCELLENT.  I personally feel this would be a good change to do to make it easier on everyone when (NOT IF) but when this site gets huge.

Have an excellent day!

Stephen Barger
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