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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.
  • Responding to email notices you receive.
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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.

we need spell check

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You can't go through life thinking not being able to spell is ok. That's not ok. Especially if you are going to misspell your ad title, or post title, or the name of the animal you are selling, or the name of the state you are living in. That's bad. Not ok. Spelling is not taught in post graduate classes, it is taught in 2nd grade. That means it's simple enough for 8 year olds to grasp.
 
We don't need spell check. Hopefully economic darwinism will remove those from the market that can't take the time or have the mental power to spell properly (I'm not talking about obscure latin terms but simple words such as states or words like "snake").
 
Too right. Some people's spelling is atrocious and makes them look like they're uneducated or just plain stupid. I understand that some spelling errors are just simple typos but when people can't figure out which word to use such as they're, there, their, it bothers me. I'm a medical transcriptionist and have been doing this for over 20 years so spelling errors stick out like a sore thumb.
 
Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Poor spelling and grammar on the Internet are one of my big hang-ups.

I would not consider purchasing an animal (or anything else for that matter) from someone that cannot take the time to check the spelling in their own advertisement. If you are too lazy to spend that few seconds proofing your ad, how do you expect a prospective customer to think you have the time (or intellect) to care for the animals in your charge?

For those interested, check out IESpell if you use Internet Explorer or SpellBound for Firefox.

I am sure your browser of choice has a plug-in for form field spell checking. Just use the search engine you prefer.
 
Ditto...

dwedeking said:
We don't need spell check. Hopefully economic darwinism will remove those from the market that can't take the time or have the mental power to spell properly (I'm not talking about obscure latin terms but simple words such as states or words like "snake").
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If someone is too lazy to check their spelling or just not bright enough to spell, I'd like to know. I'd rather not purchase from or sell to someone who would loose in the first round of a fourth grade spelling bee if they were to participate today.
 
How about some of us that has problems

like me......i am with a degenerative neurological disorder and would really appreciate a spell check to lessen my embarrassment on these forums of people thinking I'm a retard. ( no animosity against the ones that do because I have a have a niece that has down syndrom ). But in order to use some of these sites, I have to click back and fourth using a e-mail services for the correct spelling and or meaning of words. I guess i could not post but with being not able to work, this takes up some of my time as to me not being so bored ? AND besides, maybe in my thought i can bring something to this table for me being into reptiles for over 40 years ? So I ask ,is there anyway I could do something else to make it more simplified other than going back and fourth ?

Thanks
 
Read my post above. With a little knowledge and effort on anyone's part, they can have spell checking for forums and form fields.
 
Wats the big DEEL?

i think that won shud'nt have too be good at speling in order for them to git there point acros to other peeple. Some peeple are very inelagent, however may hav a lerning disabilty and/or lak computar and tieping skils. no what i meen?
 
It took only 10 seconds

to install with using Black tonic download.

I want to thank you.
So THANKS !

Mike Chambers




starwarsdad said:
Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Poor spelling and grammar on the Internet are one of my big hang-ups.

I would not consider purchasing an animal (or anything else for that matter) from someone that cannot take the time to check the spelling in their own advertisement. If you are too lazy to spend that few seconds proofing your ad, how do you expect a prospective customer to think you have the time (or intellect) to care for the animals in your charge?

For those interested, check out IESpell if you use Internet Explorer or SpellBound for Firefox.

I am sure your browser of choice has a plug-in for form field spell checking. Just use the search engine you prefer.
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