• 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.

I need my profile deleted ASAP please.

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Chiappini92

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I need my profile deleted immediately. All I want to do is leave this website and not have my personal information put on it. I really want to leave this community and website for good so I don't want anyone to trace my posts or anything else being here. I would greatly appreciate it.
 
I was curious and looked back on your posts, and can see why you would not want some of them attributed to your name.
This one in particular stands out:
Chiappini92 said:
Listen I'd shut your *** mouth if I were you, or else. I'm not in a good state of mind at this point in my life and I'm willing to do drastic things in order to prove my superiority and that includes doing things I simply cant say on this website because I know **** like you would be afraid of me. I don't just keep any reptiles, I've only had geckos so far. Secondly, ask anyone I know and they'll tell you I love animals way past the point of insanity. Trying to keep them away from me would cause me to do drastic, ugly things that I also could not mention on this website. Now I'm sick of you humans always telling me I cant do ***. It just fuels the beats within me even more. Clearly I have a connection with animals most humans don't. That gives me an advantage right there and I know I cant rewrite evolution but how were we able to domesticate such animals as cats and dogs? Surely there were people who called such selective breeders "crazy" and "stupid" but did that ever stop them? NO as such NO ONE should be able to stop me. If the Russians could tame foxes within 50 years, I can definitely do so with crocodilians and loom up pictures of people keeping them in the olden days. **** I even have a picture of a little girl riding on a pet alligator from at lest the 50s/60s and guess what she had them on a leash. Ever watch the Magic School Bus when you were a kid? Yeah they had an episode with reptiles, which included a rich woman having one on a leash. I know its possible I've seen it done before in media. If you guys are going to say I'm an *** and rash me than go ahead and rash me and I'll rash you back even harder. I'm trying to start something great here and humans have to ruin it as usual. Well listen all I have is one thing to say; if you don't have anything nice to say than DON'T say anything at all and leave it at that? Okay? Thank you for your cooperation.
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Wherever you go, it would help if you would learn to get along; no harm in having strong opinions or different opinions, but making an issue of your superiority isn't going to enamor you to most people. Why not just give it a new try and change your approach?
 
Because I was just trolling and I don't want people think that it's real. I'm pretty good at writing, I like to practice it frequently but now that I realize it's permanent I just want out. No questions asked.
 
Why? You have such a nice history of posts complaining about shipping costs (and obviously not understanding them), application requirements, cursing people off, and being generally abrasive. People should get to know the real you, Michael.
 
Chiappini92 said:
Because I was just trolling and I don't want people think that it's real. I'm pretty good at writing, I like to practice it frequently but now that I realize it's permanent I just want out. No questions asked.
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Everyone who is pretty good at writing step forward.

Not so fast, Michael.
 
Hey listen, we're not here to JUDGE, if this community is really going to be as rude and unprofessional as this, I want out. This is crossing the boundaries between good business and personal privacy.
 
Chiappini92 said:
Because I was just trolling and I don't want people think that it's real.
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It IS real. You hurt other people when you troll them and curse them. And if that's the way you are and you thought it was fun to hurt people, maybe future employers should know that about you.
 
Chiappini92 said:
Hey listen, we're not here to JUDGE, if this community is really going to be as rude and unprofessional as this, I want out. This is crossing the boundaries between good business and personal privacy.
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You are the person who chose to perform a verbal baboon display. No one broke privacy but yourself and in a voluntary fashion, so live with your choices.
 
Lucille said:
It IS real. You hurt other people when you troll them and curse them. And if that's the way you are and you thought it was fun to hurt people, maybe future employers should know that about you.
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In one of his tirades, he claimed to not be trolling, so why should we believe him now versus then?

I agree. I would not want to hire...that.
 
Listen, this is not kindergarden here. You do not "punish" people in this manner, its cruel and unusual.
 
Michael, you have choices. Why not apologize and make a fresh start? If you treat people with understanding and courtesy, most of the time you will get the same back.
 
I do apologize, but for personal reasons I have to delete this profile. I can't have my name put out on the internet. For personal reasons, none of which involve this website so I need an admin to delete my profile. I am not here to talk about trolling posts from over a year ago.
 
Chiappini92 said:
I do apologize, but for personal reasons I have to delete this profile. I can't have my name put out on the internet. For personal reasons, none of which involve this website so I need an admin to delete my profile. I am not here to talk about trolling posts from over a year ago.
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Not going to happen. Sorry you made such a mess of your own bed here, but why should I bugger up any and every thread you participated in just because YOU want to?
 
You have no right holding anyone's infromation hostage like this.
 
Michael, you put your name out on the internet.

You could have better learned about personal responsibility in the kindergarten you have paid mention to.
 
I apologise in advance, as I haven't looked into the rules in detail, and this is more of a general question on this topic, but if you are a paid up contributing member ($25), one of the benefits is the ability to change your Registered User name, am I correct?

In which case could a contributing member in a similar position change their profile so as to be no longer recognisable? I'm just curious.
 
Chiappini92 said:
...but now that I realize it's permanent I just want out. No questions asked.
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Stepping in to point out the obvious - you acknowledge that you realized IT'S PERMANENT, so now you don't want it to be? How does something that is permanent get removed??
Who answered "It doesn't?"
I saw Nick & Lucille raise their hands...anybody else?


Helenthereef said:
could a contributing member in a similar position change their profile so as to be no longer recognisable?
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No - all they can change is their user name, which would then be changed on all of their previous posts. The name field is locked at registration, so people cannot just change it on whim.
 
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