• 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.

Is this me?

OK guys, you are transforming my Remis! Now I am a spider! Hope more of you take this, I really really do not want to be a BUG!!!! :rofl:
 
I took this and I was a freakin mouse lol. Figures, all the mice deaths I am responsible for, thats what I am, all these years I have been killing my own kind! I even took it twice and changed the answers the 2nd time and I was still a mouse!!!! Dan M.
 
fuscusking13 said:
I took this and I was a freakin mouse lol. Figures, all the mice deaths I am responsible for, thats what I am, all these years I have been killing my own kind! I even took it twice and changed the answers the 2nd time and I was still a mouse!!!! Dan M.
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LOL you should put your link up so people can see if they agree :)

I went from a lion to a lynx and now a spider :angry: ok which one of you turned me into a spider? A bug :ack2: :rofl:
 
I dont think people on here know me well enough, only a very few people have actually met me, like maybe three or four, and they dont post a whole lot, other than maybe Randy. I dont know how to pull it back up, but I am sure if I take the test again I will be a mouse hahaha. Dan M.
 
You were still a lion when I did it Roz. I got a crow. Fits me well I think.
 
techgirl said:
You were still a lion when I did it Roz. I got a crow. Fits me well I think.
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Awe thanks :) I just looked and now I am a black cat. Have 12 days before the final animal is you.
You should post your link. I will vote :)

When in doubt I always say blame the ex so that is who I will blame for temperarily turning me into a bug! :rofl:
 
I was a Lynx. My two oldest sons were foxes and terriers, I knew that anyway, one is sly and the other is always yapping :D
 
Oh! ROCK ON! I knew they were doing casting calls for this AAAAGES ago.... its finally in progress!!!! ive been waiting for this for so darn long now... ^_^
 
Sorry cant blame me for that one...I did turn you to something but not the bug......

Stardust said:
Awe thanks :) I just looked and now I am a black cat. Have 12 days before the final animal is you.
You should post your link. I will vote :)

When in doubt I always say blame the ex so that is who I will blame for temperarily turning me into a bug! :rofl:
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You know I went and redid the thing yesterday, and of course got the stupid mouse again, but I never got the email with the link. I dont know what I did wrong, it said it would send one and it never did. Computers hate me, oh well. Dan M.
 
Im telling you its karma.... we have killed so many that they are coming for us lol, how did you all get your links to work?? I must be mildly retarded. I should have known I cant do anything right, my mother told me that for 18 years lol. Dan M.
 
Well Cat I assessed what I thought and gave my answers of you and now you are no longer a mouse :)
 
Dan, after you are done and the animal has been selected just copy and paste your page from the top. Maybe that would work better for you :)
 
Right now, I'm a weasel. :D . Appropiate. did my boyfriend's and he came out a whippet. LOL
 
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