• 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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A guy is driving his humvee through the woods when he sees a large grisly. He thinks to himself, "I'm going to kill this grisly, then all my frineds will think I'm a badass."

So he stops the humvee, gets out his crossbow, and takes aim. "FWIT!" The bear falls down. Elated, the man runs over to inspect his kill. When he gets close, the bear jumps up, grabs him by the back of the neck, and shows him a paw full of claws.

The bear says, "Either I have sex with you, or I kill you." The man, not wanting to die, releuctantly agrees to having sex with the bear. The bear gets done, let's the man go, and starts to walk away.

The man is pissed. He runs back to his humvee, picks up his .45, and runs after the bear. Not too far into the woods, he spots the bear agian. He takes aim. "BANG!" The bear falls. The man shouts in delight, and runs over to inspect the corpse. The bear gets up and grabs him by the neck again, showing him a paw full of claws. The bear says, "Either I have sex with you, or you die." The man sighs heavily, and, again, not wanting to die, agrees to let the bear have his way.

When the bear is done, he releases the man, who runs back to his humvee as fast as he can. He pulls out his Winchester pump action 12 gauge. He runs a bit further into the woods and finally spots the bear. He takes aim. "BOOM!" The bear falls. The man jumps in the air with happiness and runs over. Just as he approaches the bear, he is grabbed by the neck agian and shown a paw full of claws. Again, the bear says, "Either I have sex with you, or you die." The man starts to cry, but agrees once more.

When the bear finally finishes, the man runs all the way back to his humvee. He digs around in the back for a moment before he emerges with a sub machine gun. He takes after the bear into the woods. It takes him a few minutes to find the bear this time. When he sees the bear, he takes aim. "TAT TAT TAT TAT TAT TAT TAT TAT TAT" The bear falls again. The man let's out a cry of victory and runs over to shoot the bear some more. Just as he is about to pull the trigger again, the bear grabs him by the neck, leans in close to him, shaking his head, and says, "You don't come here for the hunting, do you?"
 
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