• 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.
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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 really need to delete a thread in sound off

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I found out today someone found the thread i posted in sound off and has printed it out with malicious intent. while the only copy that i know of is in the hands of someone i trust i have been asked to have it deleted to protect certain parties.

i tried looking for the edit button but to no avail. it would be really helpful if i got help with my problem.

thanks for taking the time!
 
Anything you post online is there forever. Even if it's deleted, a determined individual can use cache or the waybackmachine to find it again. You should use discretion when posting sensitive information (or photos, while we're on the subject. I know this isn't necessarily related to you but...) because once it's out here, it's out of your control.
 
Also, please note that it is not our policy to delete posts nor threads here simply because a member requests that it be done. Deleting threads takes out not only your posts, but everyone else's posts who have participated within that thread. Simply deleting your posts in a thread then makes the entire thread completely nonsensical to ALL readers, and therefore makes the thread a complete waste of space.

Quite honestly, I am just not inclined to do that to this site.
 
A lesson to anyone who read that thread , Keep private stuff private . Obv it will cause problems.
 
I understand that once things get posted it may be impossible to delete and since then I was done a great favor and the thread was moved to hell last week. in that sense the person should not be able to read it anymore unless they joined the site. however i am being told that the person had joined to to have access to that particular thread.

i really don't want to post details here because of all the trouble that this has caused already but i have no where left to turn to.

the thread is locked now but a quick skim and you can guess what is going on.
 
for one the thread is almost a year old. that is all i know about that. :) if nothing can be changed i concede. i will deal with this the best i can. my mistake, lesson learned.

thank you for trying to help though.
 
moving it was the best we could do. Posts cannot be edited after a year, sorry.
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it is alright to me.. i am just getting a lot of griping from people.. that is the only reason why i want to take it down.. frankly i would like to put more into the thread because of what has happened but after what had happened.. i have no real outlet anymore.

that is why i put it there in the first place.. i felt a great need to get it off my chest and since the forum is called sound off, a place to get things off your chest, i could place it there not thinking that anyone would search through any of my postings to find it and after searching the way the person causing trouble might have i have not seen that in any of the search engines i have used.

but i suppose that is off topic. all i care to state is that was my thinking behind what i did, getting it off my chest in a community i respect safely. only in the last part, that it being safe from the general public was i wrong. no biggie, i learned not to do that and i apologize for bothering mods about it in the first place. i am still very glad that it was moved into hell where it is safe from the general public.
 
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