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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.
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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.

What do y'all look like?

What do reptile keepers look like? (More than 1 OK)

  • They have tattoos

    Votes: 357 57.6%

  • They wear jeans

    Votes: 379 61.1%

  • They have long hair

    Votes: 170 27.4%

  • They carry scam detectors

    Votes: 77 12.4%

  • No britches

    Votes: 40 6.5%

  • Hand pressed Ralph Lauren button down oxfords (this is what I wore)

    Votes: 51 8.2%

  • They look like good citizens

    Votes: 273 44.0%

  • They look like troublemakers

    Votes: 189 30.5%

  • They look like Hell's Angels

    Votes: 131 21.1%

  • Depends if they keep snakes or turtles

    Votes: 198 31.9%

  • I know 'em when I see 'em, I can always tell

    Votes: 151 24.4%

  • Britches embroidered with snakes

    Votes: 38 6.1%

  • I dunno, I just keep parakeets

    Votes: 21 3.4%

  • They look like Lucille

    Votes: 40 6.5%

  • Other

    Votes: 147 23.7%
  • Total voters
    620
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I met two very nice people from Fauna today when we did a trade, one later wrote back to say that I did not look like a reptile keeper.

I thought this was very funny, as I do not have a preconceived notion of what we all should look like.

Here is a poll to see what YOU think us reptile people SHOULD look like; you can follow it up with an actual description of yourself if you depart from the general consensus of what we ought to look like... :) .
 
Now that my curiosity is piqued, what DO you look like, Lucille?

I've met many o' reptile keeper, and not once have I thought "doesn't look at all like a herp person". Now, many have not looked as I'd first thought, based on phone conversations or emails or the like, but that's a different thing....
 
I think I look much more closely to a Geekus computeralis ... in fact, I'm a 100% het. Oh, if only you could see my dad! He's been a computer nerd since the computers used to take up HUGE rooms, and the idea of a PC was laughable (and he's still at it 30+ years later). I'm thinking it's an incomplete dominate trait. I have the pale skin that rarely sees sunlight, a strong reliance on prescription glasses, and the ability to find humor in "Tron" ... yet I lack the pocket protector complete with calculator, and have little knowledge of the inner workings of a computer.

As far as reptile people go...I'm usually tipped of by the snake draped around the neck. LOL A nice herp related shirt goes a long way in finding one as well.
 
Here, if this will get Lucille to post a pic I will start it off with one of myself....

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I picked other.

I have medium length hair, tattoos, multiple ear piercings, and wear jeans. Not everyone is like me though.

I have encountered people from all walks of life who keep reptiles. Clean cut short haired expensively clad people, long haired tattooed torn shirted dirty jeans people, and many different in between ones too. I bought a snake from a lovely young couple who looked to have been of the "yuppie" type (and they are incredibly nice people!), another person had the "accountant" type look about him (again, a wonderful person).

I don't think you can classify a reptile person by looks. Shoot, just go to a show and watch the attendees, talk to the vendors.
 
Spell check only works on words misspelled, not typos that make other words. LOL

One thing's for sure. You can't go by looks when trying to decide if someone is "into" reptiles or not.

At the reptile pet store I work at there is woman who comes in but looks like your "typical" grandmother. When she first came in several years ago, I expected to hear tons of phrases out of her mouth like: "The only good snake is a dead snake.", "People actually buy these things?", "Who would have a snake in their house?" and etc. I never in a million years dreamed she would like reptiles and then fill her house with them. She went around oohing and aaahing at EVERYTHING. I don't know how many herps she is up to now but it's a lot. She has bought snakes, tarantulas, turtles, lizards and amphibians, you name it. She also goes to the reptile shows now too.

Then sometimes we have tattooed, long-haired guys who run screaming like a little girl if I take a hatchling corn snake out of its container. :) Now that is funny.


[SIZE=-2]On a side note when I spell checked this post it highlighted HERPS and the first suggestion for a correct spelling was HERPES. I got a chuckle out of that.[/SIZE]

Here's a pic of me with my newest BP.
 

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Ok, I am the one that told her that she didn't look like a reptile keeper. I have been keeping snakes for over 30 years now and have seen my fair share of herp people, male and female, and I just didn't think that she looked like someone that had a bunch of snakes. Especially not someone that would be interested in the big boids like burms.
Since she e-mailed me and asked me to describe her to you guys here goes. I would definatly say and she looks like a lawyer, which she is or is going to be, but also has the innocent look of an elementary school teacher. She has short blond hair and was wearing a suit type outfit which looked very professional. It was sunday though so I don't know if that was just church cloths and she might normally be in jeans and a tee shirt.
But all and all she just didn't strike me as a snake keeper. Maybe a bearded dragon or chameleon keeper, but not big boids. Female boa and burm keepers in my experience usually have a bit of a hard edge to them. Not a bad thing, just different.
Anyway, all this was just my opinion. I think that Lucille should dress in what she had on when I met her and take a picture. Then you guys can judge for yourselves.

David
 
Female boa and burm keepers in my experience usually have a bit of a hard edge to them.
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LMAO! You need to get out more, David! I'm just teasing you...but, seriously, I think many, MANY of the women on this site will disagree with you!
 
DavidButton said:
Anyway, all this was just my opinion. I think that Lucille should dress in what she had on when I met her and take a picture. Then you guys can judge for yourselves.

David
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Thank you for the description David :) . I am quite shy in person and am self conscious so I do not think I will post a pic, but I started this thread because I thought it would be interesting to hear from people about their expectations of what a reptile keeper 'should' look like, and there have been some interesting responses.
 
I'll throw my hat into the ring...this is a pic from a pub after a long day of lectures delivered at Monterey Bay Aquarium regarding cephalopods...mmmm...bushmill's :

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Oh yeah, I'm on the right side.
 
ms_terese said:
LMAO! You need to get out more, David! I'm just teasing you...but, seriously, I think many, MANY of the women on this site will disagree with you!
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Well maybe "hard edge" was not the right term. What I meant was that most female herp keepers that I know and have known look like they would be just as comfortable trekking through the swamps looking for snakes as they would being at work in a professional office. Lucille just didn't strike me as that kind. I am not saying that she wouldn't go off snake hunting in a minute if the chance came, but on first impression she didn't look that way.

David
 
DavidButton said:
.... just as comfortable trekking through the swamps
David
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Good call. Not unless the Swamp Hilton was right there for a hot shower and tea afterward.... :rofl:


PS: We sure got a lot of handsome guys around this site.
 
Oh, I do apologize.... I meant to put pants on for that picture....
 
shrap said:
Oh, I do apologize.... I meant to put pants on for that picture....
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Ummm I think you cropped the picture too much and we couldn't tell you were pantless.
 
Karen Hulvey said:
Ummm I think you cropped the picture too much and we couldn't tell you were pantless.
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Maybe just a computer malfunction. I KNEW he was pantless. Rumor has it that is his natural state.

I hear he isn't much for britches either.
 
Since I originated this thread, I vote for me to be official forum photographer..... :D :D
 
cthulhu77 said:
I'll throw my hat into the ring...this is a pic from a pub after a long day of lectures delivered at Monterey Bay Aquarium regarding cephalopods...mmmm...bushmill's :

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Oh yeah, I'm on the right side.
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Greg..you look like a professor or maybe even a doctor..you definitely don't fit the "stereotypical" reptile dude..I don't think I do either. I think folks see me as more in the middle, not too conservative but not too trendy..I don't have any ink either..quite a few holes in my ears and a navel ring but that is as far as it goes...:dgrin:
Is that Neil DIamond in the newspaper your holding???lol!
 

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