• 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.

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thats where you store your luggage ..... i doubt you want to see where the engine is



[just playing with my new camera]

i can get some good close ups but they seem to get washed out... i still need to tinker around with it and see and play with all the settings... sucks when the type in the book is too small that you cant see it...... you got to mostly figure it out yourself.... and i do not have the patience to sit and listen to my husband read it to me (tried that... (short attention span and little patience).... oh well i'll figure it out eventually
 

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Robin . . .

. . . you can search for the book online - and read it off the PDF file. You should be able to blow that up some.

What kind of camera did you get?
 
Nice to see you have a new camera Robin and Happy early B-day! I guess that means your legal now. :)

When I take macro shots with my Nikon CoolPix 4500 I have to zoom in a little or the pics do what yours just did, wash out. By zooming in you have to pull the camera back which gives the flash a larger area to brighten, resulting in a wash free pic. Hopefully this makes sense and it’s something to try…
 
im gonna call you and see what you use as settings i have not quite got it set right to show the true colors... plan on me buggin ya on my next day off (next monday) unless of course i can get off (no pun intended) for my birthday, which is saturday
 
I’ll be awaiting your call then Robin. :)

In the mean time you might find this site helpful. I used it when I was setting up my camera. Since yours is a 4200 the setting might be a little different from a 4500.
http://www.cs.mtu.edu/~shene/DigiCam/
 
if i remember correctly the only difference between your camera and mine is mine is a 4.0 megapixel and yours is a 5.1..... i think
 
Actually mine is at 4 megapixels and has a 4x optical zoom. Mine also can take short movies. Does yours?
 
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