• 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.

Using your real name?

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There is not much that is ambiguous about this requirement but I see one thing that bothers me.

I know that Rich is very busy (espescially now when he has to be watching for my babies to hatch) and he can't catch everything, I understand that. My main question come from those people who are have two names in the signature. A husband and wife, or partners perhaps. We don't actually know who wrote the post in question. I've seen it before where someone says, "Oh that wasn't me that was so and so" as sort of a means to get them off the hook. I don't se a problem with the double signature, I just think that the actual poster should have to sign his or her name to the post.

I won't post the three that leap to mind, and with two of them I don't have a problem because they are well behaved, and well respected (by me at least) and they keep their comments on topic. The third is from a person or persons with a less than savory reputation on this forum and the deception of not knowing who is writting the posts only serves (IMHO) to make them look worse.

Like I said, no big deal, just an observation while I had a little time to kill.

Steve Schindler
 
Excellant point! Usually, I believe I can tell whether a man or woman is writing in those posts that cause some questions (again, not mentioning any names), but that is probably very sexists and overly assuming on my part. A signature to let us all know to whom it is that we are talking would not be a bad idea at all.
 
Just a personal opinion here.......,but I think every post that sells or inquires or any post on this site should have your FULL name somewhere on the post. Just a way of being up-front and all:look:
 
I like the idea of using ones name in the signature. I too think it ought to be mandatory for all posts, but at the same time I have my doubts as to whether or not that means you know who wrote the post. Let me give a few brief examples, but let me also preface the examples by saying yes I use my real name:

1) Glenn R. Bartley signs up for faunaclassifieds.com using his real name in his signature. He signs all post with his signature. So that is good and it works for me.

2) Snidely Whiplash signs up for faunaclassifieds.com and from day one he uses the name Dudley Do-Right. He then goes on posting hundreds of posts under the name of Dudley Do-Right and how are we to know that it is actually Snidely Whiplash who is posting?

3) Boris Badenov and Natasha (husband and wife - I think) sign up for fc using both names in their signature and either one can sign on and leave a message. They always use the same computer but always sign their own respective name in their posts. Recently though Boris has become bored. So now, he sometimes gets frisky at faunaclassifieds and writes in Natasha's writing style just to be mischievious!


So how would we know that any of the above is actually happening? If someone is being honest that is great but if someone wants to use an alias how would we know?

Best regards,
Bartley, Glenn
 
Boris Badenov and Natasha (husband and wife - I think)
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Natasha's last name is Fatale, so I'm pretty sure their not married, but I have to appreciate a good Rocky and Bullwinkle reference no matter where it appears.
 
if someone wants to use an alias how would we know?
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Well, we wouldn't, but that doesn't seem to make anyone think that the BOI shouldn't have full names required. Why should it deter the classifieds from requiring full names as well? I know I would be much more willing to consider buying from John Doe as opposed to IBlowUpFrogs4875.
 
Wow never thought about it

I guess that I have never thought about this. Since my signature line uses mine and my wifes name. The reason is thats the business name. I am the only one that uses fauna so I guess for us its ok. She has logged on a few times ( as a guest) she was looking for birthday and christmas gifts for me.

I do agree with some of the arguments and for that I will sign my name prior to puting up my signature.

Darin Gray
 
What about posting IP addresses?

I don't know anything about IPs but have heard people looking into questionable persons and mentioning that a particular IP has several names connected to it... I wouldn't even know how to find my IP, but it's just a thought
 
Missymonkey said:
What about posting IP addresses?

I don't know anything about IPs but have heard people looking into questionable persons and mentioning that a particular IP has several names connected to it... I wouldn't even know how to find my IP, but it's just a thought
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Not a good idea. You do not want your IP posted all over the net. It would make it very easy for some one you have upset to launch a DOS, (denial of service), Attack against you. Keep your IP private.

One other thing about IP's. If the person still has a dial-up account, their IP is going to be different everytime they sign on. Most everyone on DSL or Cable obtains an IP through DHCP so their IP is not static. This means they get a new IP on a regular basis. Those that know how, can also change their IP when they want to, it's easy to do.
 
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