• 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.

Sarcasm Font: poll

Sarcasm Font: Is it a valid idea?

  • Great Idea! Let's do it.

    Votes: 25 48.1%

  • Bad Idea! Won't work.

    Votes: 7 13.5%

  • I like it when posters don't understand my caustic wit.

    Votes: 15 28.8%

  • Huh? What's a font? ( won't make a difference)

    Votes: 5 9.6%
  • Total voters
    52
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Another thread got me googling ( darn google) for info. on a sarcasm font. I mean how many misunderstandings and flame posts start for lack of understanding a sarcastic comment?
I'm not sure what it would take to get it here, but the smart people at The Sarcastic Font movement ( the top of the google list) had a brain fart and here it is: ( they even have a Manifesto and Usage Guide.)
http://www.glennmcanally.com/sarcastic/index.htm
I think the back slanting font ( or is it forward slanting?) is subtle enough not to take away from the text, but indicative enough to avoid confusion...
What do you all think?
and to Rich:
Could this be done?

***ps) I started this poll at cs.com as well.
 
LOL.. I love the IDEA of it.. but the chance of it working is low.. Since most people will merely read it as italics.. and not get the idea that it represents sarcasm...


and for two.. the point of the sarcasm would be kinda deflated. ya know ? I mean.. where's the FUN?
 
^What she said.

Just have to explain the font on top of the sarcasm.

No matter what font you use, it can't make the reader any brighter :rolleyes:
 
Miss Tuniwha said:
LOL.. I love the IDEA of it.. but the chance of it working is low.. Since most people will merely read it as italics.. and not get the idea that it represents sarcasm...
True, but we won't know unless we try. If enough sites used it, it would eventually be common knowledge. "lol" came about exactly that way.


and for two.. the point of the sarcasm would be kinda deflated. ya know ? I mean.. where's the FUN?
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True also, that's why there's option #3 :)
 
I like the idea, but my problem is pretty much all my communications would have to be back slanted - I'm British after all, and sarcasm is my native tongue.....
 
I can't tell if you're meaning sarcastic comments would be italicized or slanted in the reverse direction. Either way, it would be confusing for people who use italics for emphasis.

Even if we could put sarcasm in a completely different font, I doubt it would work. People wouldn't have a clue what the deal is with different fonts, and we'd have to explain to them what it means every, single time it's used. If we can't get people to read the bright yellow/red banners at the top of every page, we won't get them to figure out a sarcastic font.
 
Helenthereef said:
I like the idea, but my problem is pretty much all my communications would have to be back slanted - I'm British after all, and sarcasm is my native tongue.....
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Yeah, Some members might have to just tape the 'sarcasm button' down to their keyboard. :shrug01:
 
R. Eventide said:
I can't tell if you're meaning sarcastic comments would be italicized or slanted in the reverse direction. Either way, it would be confusing for people who use italics for emphasis.

Even if we could put sarcasm in a completely different font, I doubt it would work. People wouldn't have a clue what the deal is with different fonts, and we'd have to explain to them what it means every, single time it's used. If we can't get people to read the bright yellow/red banners at the top of every page, we won't get them to figure out a sarcastic font.
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I guess we could make a Debbie Downer font as well, LOL ( remember her?).

http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/clips/debbie-downer/32806/
 
ForkedTung said:
I guess we could make a Debbie Downer font as well, LOL ( remember her?).

http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/clips/debbie-downer/32806/
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:rofl::rofl: Some people don't like change. They will answer for everyone else..it's the "other" people that won't know what's happening...sigh.

I have no clue if the other people are as dense as some want to make out, but I am willing to take a chance that they may NOT be, and it may catch on quite as fast as "LOL" (some people STILL don't know what it means).:D
 
Helenthereef said:
Of course the rolling eye and smirking smilies work pretty well too, and even the densest kind of get it:rolleyes::rolleyes:...
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I agree :D And I for one do type often in italics. :p NOR do I like change.. LOL


And yea, my father last week asked me what LOL meant.. "lots of love" was his guess.. LOL
 
Here's the problem...

The font won't work unless it's actually installed on the computer that is viewing it. So if someone selects it in the drop down when making a post, unless I have that particular font installed on my computer, it will just revert to the forum default.

This is why websites use (at least those programmed correctly) web safe fonts as opposed to any ol' font found on your computer.

;)
 
And before anyone points out that they can view the font on the linked website and they don't have the font installed...It's because it's an image, not coded text on the site. You can right click and View Image to see the image by itself.
 
ForkedTung said:
I guess we could make a Debbie Downer font as well, LOL ( remember her?).

http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/clips/debbie-downer/32806/
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Actually, no, I don't. I don't watch SNL. Never have.

Sorry, but I have a sarcastic and cynical outlook on the general public due to seeing all manner of Stupid every, single day. (Like the freshmen who don't know what a compass is and how it works, who can't do 7th-grade math, who don't know what wind is, etc. And yes, those are real examples from classes I and my friends have TAed.) Sorry, life has made me jaded...and I'm sorry that I speak from experience.

Someone asked for opinions. I answered. <font="Sarcasm">Maybe we need a font that specifies when people want actual feedback and people who just want others to agree with them.</font>
 
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R. Eventide said:
<font="Sarcasm">Maybe we need a font that specifies when people want actual feedback and people who just want others to agree with them.</font>
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LOL :) That would probably be a lot more popular.
 
TripleMoonsExotic said:
Here's the problem...

The font won't work unless it's actually installed on the computer that is viewing it. So if someone selects it in the drop down when making a post, unless I have that particular font installed on my computer, it will just revert to the forum default.

This is why websites use (at least those programmed correctly) web safe fonts as opposed to any ol' font found on your computer.

;)
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Who'da thunkit?
 
Oh - you guys are Funny.......I am gonna like it here!

With that line of thinkin', We could also use a Brittish "dry-humor" Font as well, bloody well then.......

...............Like my Steaks!

- Jason
 
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