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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.

thereptileroom = cheat of the month

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these guys are pathetic, their stats are pathetic. Watch how they get a couple of thousand hits in very short periods. half of the site posts come from the mods.

If you cant do it without cheating expect to get exposed


watchdoggie
 
Do hope you are referring to thereptileroom, cause I'm a member of reptile rooms and I can assure you its not fake. They're a highly active forum that I have a tremendous amount of respect for.
 
Well Shane, Lets see I can pull the server stats for any site on my servers. The domain thereptileroom.org recieved over 2 Million calls to the domain. Now this does include hotlinked pics and the counters do not count that.


Also had around 28GB of bandwidth used for the month of Jan.

Seems you are barking up the wrong tree here watchdog. You may need to worry about yourself instead of others.

Not sure if you all can view this link but a stat link is here


https://thereptileroom.org/plesk-stat/webstat/

NEXT?
 
Skunky said:
Hehe.. :)
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lol, smetimes you wonder about people you know. I get a friend telling me about a guy posting that I cheat on fauna. Rich can look up my stats all he wants. am I actie on my board? YEP. An admin should be. Just as Rich is active here.

If Watchdog gets through is day by sitting on the ranking boards and calling out things he thinks he knows about then hey more power to him. lmao

But I have proof to back me up. I use the rankings to tell me how many hits I get. But ask Rich. I think I have 5 duifferent ones and all will show a different number but all within a close range of one another. But it gives you an idea of when your traffic is coming instead of always going through the server. They are only one click away.
 
And for the record that yawn was directed at watchdoggie.. I think the bulk majority or us have better things to do than sit around watching hit stats on sites. Most of us get involved in the sites and contribute in one way or another, some good some not so good. But at least we try. ;)
 
Just doesnt make sense that..who actually pays attention to the numbers? Actually, who cares? All I care about is the interaction and discussion..the numbers mean squat.
 
You are right Skunky but to a site owner the numbers is what we go by to tell if something works. Say I say the word dumb on my site. That might make people leave. If I say the word cool it may bring them. Stats help you tell if stuff works.
 
Hmm, that's interesting, didnt know that. Flip, if you've got a forum the size of fauna, that's got to be one ginormous load of data to sift through!! Kudos to you and Rich!!
 
TRR is not even close to fauna. My guess is Fauna pushes around 100 to 150 GB of bandwidth a month. I am not even going to guess the DB size it may be well over a GB maybe even 5GB
 
Actually the topsites scripts are an interesting measure to watch as you make changes on your site. Even watch as activity spikes and wanes because of certain issues taking place in your forums. When ReptiBid had the two headed snake on the auction, their stats went through the roof because of the advertising that one auction brought for them.

And to those of us who might spring for paid advertising, it is extremely helpful to see if our money is well spent or wasted. Yeah, certainly there are scammers in that sort of business as well, if you aren't careful and don't know what to look for.

Certainly some people will cheat, but in reality it is themselves they are cheating. They aren't using the tool as it was designed to be used at all. I believe few people actually use the topsites to in any way "rate" the sites participating there. Does anyone really go to a topsites program thinking I want to see who is on top so I can go there to see what is going on? I doubt it sincerely. Some may use them as a listing of websites to visit, and maybe it is beneficial to be on the front page, but beyond that, when push comes to shove, cheating is just not worth it in terms of the returns you get for the effort expended.

So quite honestly, I think Gary is probably far too busy just running his website to engage in something like sitting in front of the keyboard just to get his hit counter up. That's the kind of stuff I have caught kids doing who just didn't have anything better to do with their time.

The internet is too big, and the ability for browsers to jump so easily from one site to the next, that it doesn't make sense to get worked up over some on line hit counter.

And to be perfectly honest, I had to withdraw my own participation from a few topsites I had this site listed on because the throughput on page displays here was suffering from it. Surprisingly enough (or maybe not really), it didn't affect a thing here concerning traffic or new registrations.

So all in all, it really doesn't matter at all.
 
You have GOT to be kidding me. :rolleyes:


Just ignore the guy Gary. He obviously needs a new hobby...a girlfriend might not hurt either.
 
The day I find Gary is lieing and cheating is the day I find Foster is down under 180 ;)
 
Lol... so every post this guy has made here has been nothing more than accusing one site or another of cheating on their stats...... thanks for your contributions, watchdog.
 
Dr Owens said:
You have GOT to be kidding me. :rolleyes:


Just ignore the guy Gary. He obviously needs a new hobby...a girlfriend might not hurt either.
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Jay... Not meaning to be a horses rear end here but honestly do you think some guy sitting around watching hit stats is actually going to find a girlfriend??

Kind of sad actually if you really think about it.. I envision a lonely guy sitting in a unibomber type shack with a bag of chips, a cola, and two or three computers watching the hit stats.. :hehe:

I could go more into detail but I will leave the rest to everyone's imagination. ;)
 
soberguy said:
The day I find Gary is lieing and cheating is the day I find Foster is down under 180 ;)
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220 buddy... Any less and I look like I need a telethon for feed the children.
 
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