• Posted 12/19/2024.
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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.
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    Who did I screw over? Some moron you believed that said I did? You are nothing more then the ever growing pile of human waste in this world. You like to hide behind your key board and make accusations tha are completely unfounded. I have been in this industry for 27 years now and it never fails to amaze me ow utterly ignorant peole are and I mean YOU. For your unfounded accusations, I ony wish you to fail and I believe your life is full of failures and thinking you can attack me and not be called out on it is just another failure in your demented way of thinking.
    burms2751
    hey i saw on a ad u had asked where u can get the black hid boxes?reptile basics has them in all sizes.just wanted to let u know just encase no one has respond back to u yet:)
    KelliH
    Like I said, I feel bad for you. I'd like to see you address some of the claims you have been making in the BOI thread I started. You have made a lot of statements, and some of them are false, so it would be good of you to address some of these in the thread.
    KelliH
    "Do some research before opening your mouth. Just because you're friends with Wyatt and don't want his rep affecting your business in Texas, you try to attack my character. You are very much the minority in your negativity toward me."

    Hey Jen... here's a newsflash... I'm not friends with Wyatt, and he has nothing to do with my "rep". Reach a little farther next time, Girly.
    Pink Lady Exotics
    I just re-read through the BOI rules, and there is NO RULE authorizing infractions for "borderline" abuse. This is the only abuse or "name-calling" related rule:


    This is what I replied to the Mod:

    The title of that rule is "OVERLY ABUSIVE toward another member." Notice the emphasis on "overly". I was in no way, shape, or form "overly abusive". I did not use profanity. I did not say "Michael is a douchebag". I said the seller that destroyed my collection was a douchebag, and Michael is just like him. How is that even remotely overly abusive? The BOI rule specifically states that civility is NOT required, and I was FAR from a "totally flaming jackass". That infraction you gave me is not within the guidelines set forth by Rich or the BOI and thus is unjustified.

    Since I can't add a new visitor message at this moment, and don't want to fail to address this when your account access is restored, I'm going to respond here:
    If you had looked at the announcement section at the top of the BOI, you would have seen a thread entitled Please check the FEEDBACK FORUM for help!. Had you bothered to read that announcement, you would have seen the statement that "perhaps something has changed here that you are not aware of, PLEASE check the Feedback Forum in the Admin Area of this site. That is where I will be posting information". Stuck at the top of THAT forum, is a thread entitled, Updates to the infraction system. The first post in that thread is a list of the original infractions (included for the explanations provided), PLUS the current list. The third post is WebSlave's statement about the name calling and derogatory terms.
    You wandering back and not considering that things might have changed does not exempt you from the rules.

    I guess you chose to remedy that by carrying on about it in your visitor messages and putting that term in your user profile
    hhmoore
    Utta
    thats why you only got 2 points for a borderline abusive post lol. if you would have called him a D-bag, then im sure you would have gotten the full abusive post. (btw, you might wanna edit out the d-bag thing, dont want you gettin a few more points lol)
    R
    hello i remember you from a few years ago selling snakes and i remember your husband is in the military and wondering if he was home and ok
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