• 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.
  • 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.

Web master not fare LOL

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Watch this one probably hit the trash bin. LOL

I recieved a warning point for calling someone ( scum bag )and then someone else in a diffrent thread (on the Bobby pruett thread) that person on the opening statment called them the exact same words. !!
I sent that message to Rich and asked that my point be removed because he did not give them a point and he refused, and after pointing this out to Rich, he still did not give the other person a point for using the exact same 2 words.
I think that if one deserves a point then it should only be fare that everyone be treated the same way.
 
Well I have some opinions about this.....of course.

I think you are a nice guy and all.

BUT

Look at your warnings. Now Look at the posts that were made in relation to those warnings.

Now Look at the "other" guys warnings or lack thereof.

It is Mother Nature.

Example.

If I sold an albino boa ADULT for $2000 no one would think anything of it.
Now
If Jesse Underhill Sold an albino boa Adult for $2000 people would examine him more carefully. They would think something was wrong.

I am not saying that people with points Do purposefully get watched. But it is just mother nature.

Then to go press the button and SNITCH on someone else. "Hey how come such and such person did not get points"

Then to go further by making a thread on the BOI....a thread that really has no basis for being here.. "Hey such and such person did not get points"

Now come on. If you think about it...... that is also deservig of another point


Some people have more points than they deserve.
Some people have less points than they deserve.
It is NOT a perfect system.
But it is something that helps try to keep things somewhat decent around here.


Here is another way I look at it.
If someone reported a thread and said.....hey this guy is getting out of hand and needs points.....I would definately consider it.
On the other hand
If someone reported a thread ....and basically says. This person didn't get points but I did for saying the same thing..... I would ignore it
 
p.s. I do not know how the above sounds.

But I am not trying to DIG on ya.

I am just trying to say...........how shall I say it......

Something along the lines of .......stuff happens

or

it will be okay

or

don't worry about it too much

or dude get over it ;)

or aaahhh the trouble with trying to convey a message over typed written words
 
Great post Jim! I have worked very hard all weekend and have had a bad cold but you just made my day! Best Wishes, Bruce
 
I got 3 points for puting my website up in the BOI
I got 3 points for calling someone a moron

I got 1 point for saying scum bag.

LOL

that does not ad up to 8 so I probably got a extra one for posting here LOl
 
Here is the reply I sent to Jim concerning the warning point issued to him that he is complaining about:

Jim,

I have no reason nor intention to read each and every post in every thread on the BOI. But when I do read one and see name calling and the like, I will issue warning points. The fact that I did not read another message that has the same thing in it, and therefore did not issue a warning point is irrelevant.

If a cop catches YOU speeding, do you think the fact that other people were speeding will make much difference to him giving you a ticket?

Sorry, but the entire point of this is that everyone needs to be a little more circumspect in how they express themselves on my site. That is the entire intention of the warning system.

Later...
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