A: What’s the point of any blog, really? If you want an explanation (no guarantees on there being a point), check out the About page.
Q: Who ARE you guys?
A: Again, we direct you to the About page.
Q: What’s the story with that tag line? It sounds vaguely familiar.
A: It paraphrases a nice little quote from Abe Lincoln, which is reported to be: “The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time.” (This was actually The Mary’s mantra as she jumped the last gargantuan hurdles of her master’s program, and that’s probably why it came to mind so readily.)
Q: Hey, I tried to post a comment but it never showed up! What gives?
A: It probably didn’t seem on-topic enough. You’re welcome to try again, but keep in mind that if you’re really just trying to promote your own tenuously-related site, product or service, you may have to work pretty hard on the text to get it approved. If it makes you feel better, remember that we don’t get a lot of traffic here to see your advert– uh, comment. Heck, most of our friends rarely stop by, and they’re the ones we started doing this for.
Your comment may also have been overlooked because you came across as shooting off your mouth on a controversial subject, maybe without actually having looked at the page we linked to. We’re really just trying to bring interesting webthings to the attention of friends and friendly visitors; if you want to start an argument, please start it at the original site. Or, write about it on your own blog, and offer us a comment with a link and a note that interested parties can talk about it more at your place. (Yeah, we’ll probably check first, before approving.)
Q: I posted a comment, then you burned me, and now I can’t respond. What gives?
A: If you were burned, you must have done something to deserve it, and, quite frankly, this is our little pocket of the internet, and there’s not much you can do about it.
Have you ever worked in customer service? We have, and for far too long a time. After taking people’s garbage for sooooo long, we’ve talked it over and decided that this is one part of our lives where we’re not just going to smile and say “thanks for sharing” when someone decides that they’d like to defecate in our virtual living room. But, if you can play nice, we actually are quite happy for you to stop by!
At the current time we only allow comments for the first day or so of a post’s life, and then only on approval. That may change in the future, but right now it keeps us from having to ride herd on discussions. It may seem odd, given how freely one can comment almost everywhere else on the internet, but we just want to offer some sites that we found interesting for one reason or another, and it doesn’t hurt our feelings in the slightest when no one has anything to say on a topic.
Q: But I really want to tell you about my site! Or some other cool site! How do I do that?
A: Well, you can try submitting it via email (thelinkening at gmail dot com), but really, we’re underemployed, overeducated ADD adults who were raised on a bit too much Monty Python, Nova and MTV, so it’s anyone’s guess as to what’s going to tickle our fancy on a given day. Though we can assure you that we’re fairly consistently annoyed by self-aggrandizement no matter the weather, so if that’s what you’re after then be sure to make with the funny.
Q: If I wait long enough, will I figure out what the deal is with the photos you use in the header?
A: Maybe — humans are good pattern-finders, even when there’s no actual pattern to find…. But more seriously (slightly), sometimes there’s a “link” theme and other times it’s just a photo that seems right for the times.
Q: Can I submit a photo for the header?
A: You can try. If it’s good enough, we’ll post it & give you credit. But honestly, we’ve got a lot of our own photos, and it’s going to be pretty hard to impress us. It’s not that hard to get your own blog and post whatever photos you’d like, so why don’t you look into that?
