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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.

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Alot of us, although we may not know each other personally, have established a friendship or what not through this site. I thought it'd be awesome to set-up a room at this killer Texas Hold 'em site that requires a password to set at the table and keep it for fauna users only. That way a few of us can kick back, relax, chat, play some cards, (play money) but if some of you are more serious about your gambling maybe we could get something going on later!!!! Let me know if you're interested!! I'll set up a room asap.
 
Texas Hold 'em Huh? Heck yea, set it up.
 
I know I may have caused a little bit of drama around here in the past , but if you made a card room I would love to be able to be a part of it, sounds fun. what online poker site do you want to use?
 
I don't really know any of you but it would be nice to play against some fellow herpers. Let me know when and where.

Brett
 
Sure I am , But this is supposed to bring people together, Not to make vaild insults. see ya at the table when they make one?
 
Go to partypoker.com. register with an easy to remember name. My handle there is Boacrazy. You can do a search there for people's names and go to table they are at. Shoot me an e-mail with the time you would like to play. Preferably evenings after 5:30 Pacific. Hope to see anyone there.

Bthacker
 
I hope this isn't boys only ;) I might have to stop in ....
 
hey did you make the room? whats it called? whats the password? want t0 play right now? ill download party poker, i usely use pokerstars. but whatever, lets do it up.
 
I used to play pokerstars until they told me I owed them ten bucks for a firepay mistake. Just go to partypoker.com. Unfortunately I can't play at work. If I could I wouldn't make rent. I check my e-mail frequently ...so if you guys are in there after 5:30Pacific, then I am there.

Bthacker
 
Bthacker, hope you don't mind I added you to my buddy list on partypoker. My handle there is hhwoo if anybody would like to add me; I tend to frequent the no limit 100,000 tables.

I apologize in advance if I'm rude after catching a bad beat though, not many things can get me more riled up, LOL!!!
 
hhwoo said:
Bthacker, hope you don't mind I added you to my buddy list on partypoker. My handle there is hhwoo if anybody would like to add me; I tend to frequent the no limit 100,000 tables.

I apologize in advance if I'm rude after catching a bad beat though, not many things can get me more riled up, LOL!!!
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I'll keep an eye out for you. That is play money right? It might be awhile for me to get to the big tables. I was up to 250K from 2k, then lost it all in two hands on the big tables. That's poker. We'll see you in there some time. Good luck! Hopefully I won't be catching any real bad beats soon!!

Take care-

Bthacker
 
Yes, definitely play money... having a computer science background, I wouldn't bet any real money that a random number generator is reliably random. With some statistical analysis, it's probably possible to exploit the weaknesses of the random number generator and use that information to your advantage. It would be a very small advantage, but nonetheless it's not a straight game.

With play chips though, people are extremely reckless with their betting since it's not real money so bad beats happen quite often.
 
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