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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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Perhaps I missed the memo on some changes to giving and receiving karma points. But...is there any reason I cannot give out negative karma for posts? I can receive them but I cannot give them. At this time I am only able to give good karma points for posts.

Thanks in advance for answers.....
 
Well there must be a glitch in the system then because I received negative karma from a unpaid member last week?
 
Dunno Laura, I was just going by what the chart said. Maybe one of the site mods, or Rich, can clear that up?


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Hey Laura, was the little box thingy next to the comment grey or red? If it was red, then it was actual negative Karma that counted towards your points, if it was grey, while the comment may have been nasty, it was neutral and didn't count towards your point total.
 
I am thinking that maybe some of the "paid" members are not getting or have requested not to have the coin on?
I have seen paid participant (something to that effect)under their screen names on people who are using the ads but I do not always see coins.
 
Stardust said:
I am thinking that maybe some of the "paid" members are not getting or have requested not to have the coin on?
I have seen paid participant (something to that effect)under their screen names on people who are using the ads but I do not always see coins.
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Yes, theres an option to do that in the User CP i believe.... i was told how to do it, if one wanted to hide them. But i dont remember exactly how...
 
Thanks guys.

Another quick question for anyone with knowledge of the karna system, can you see who left you karma if you are at the contributor level membership?
 
Mooing Tricycle said:
Yes, theres an option to do that in the User CP i believe.... i was told how to do it, if one wanted to hide them. But i dont remember exactly how...
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User CP.
Scroll down to Group Memberships.
Choose setting.
 
I am a paid member. I just dont show my coin.
 
Until you've reached 100 posts and accumulated some karma to give out, any karma you leave will be a purely symbolic gesture that doesn't count toward your target's karma rating. Also, you'll only be able to leave positive karma, since you're not a paying member.

Anyway, check out the screenshots below to see how to give karma and send someone a friend request. For karma, just click on the little scale icon that I've outlined in red. To 'friend' someone, you'll need to click on their user name and enter their profile page via the drop-down menu that appears.
 

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Sammy hasn't logged in for nearly 3 yrs.
About the only benefit I can think of is that, without the coins, posts take up a little less space
 
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