FAQ
We don’t have much questions yet, presumably because we have only one reader, but a FAQ might be appropriate. Apparently we have readers now, and because we’re two-time winners of the internets, we think it might be appropriate to have a FAQ section to offer some greater clarity into what we do around here. If you have a question about the site or how we maintain it, feel free to ask here. More will come when we can think of relevant questions that could be asked.
Q: Who are you people and why should I care?
We can’t speak to the latter, but with respect to the former, we cover that in the About page. We also have mini-bios on our Author pages, for example, check out Gabby Jay.
Q: Why should I read this blog and not any others?
We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again until we’re blue in the mouth: we suck and are not informative. As we say in our disclaimer, this blog is of dubious veracity, orginality and intellectual prowess and it should not be read by anyone. We frequent 11W a lot because it combines what we love most about the blogosphere into one blog: a great community, detailed insight into basketball and football games, and a great layout that’s conducive to finding information quick. If not for 11W, I don’t think we get that excited about college football blogging and would probably just still be yelling at the internets and ESPN.
Q: So Eleven Warriors is to blame for this blog?
Yes, yes it is, actually. Legally liable too. Our legal counsel has advised us that holding 11W liable (just by saying that they’re liable) for this crappy blog probably saves our hides a few bucks when we eventually get taken to court for First Degree Crappy Blogging since 11W will be forced to pay most of the damages. We’re not sure of the qualifications of our legal counsel, but he goes by first initial/middle name combination, suffixes his name with “esquire”, smells like shoe polish and keeps stealing our donuts. That, and he listens well.
Q: So what is this blog’s commenting policy?
Again, the raison d’être for this blog is to find our own happy place on the internets, and a little place we can call home. We get hassled enough in the real world (succinctly put, we don’t live in a part of the world that’s very Buckeye friendly). We always appreciate differing viewpoints about analysis and especially clarification of important errors, like some measurement errors in the data we put together, but the petty, ad hominem or gloating stuff we won’t tolerate. There’s tons of great blogs out there for your team, go there and gloat if you feel the need to. We get hassled in the real world; we won’t get hassled here.
More to the point, a comment is held in moderation if it’s the first you make. After it’s approved, you’re good to comment with the e-mail address you provide (hence why it’s necessary to provide it). I won’t approve comments with what looks like phony e-mails, which I think is a pretty good proxy for controlling for potential troublemakers.
Q: If I give you a link to my new blog, will you add it?
Absolutely. As of the time of writing this FAQ, this blog is only 3 weeks old (and two-time defending champions of the internets, so eat it, internets). Aside from being champions of the internets, we still understand what it is to be new to the blogosphere and unsure where to start. Use the contact form.
Q: Your website is missing [insert feature here] that I think would really make this a better, more feature-rich blog, or there is [general complaint/bug about the layout here] that makes viewing this site a bigger hassle. Would you get cranky if I used the contact form to tell you about it?
Oh God no. Please tell us if you think that this blog is missing a particular feature (like an easy plug-in-to-newsreader button, for example) that would make this a better experience for you. This is a dilapidated version of Wordpress we’re running too, and the theme I designed for it was built around it, so if there’s some part of the layout that bothers you and makes it hard for you to view this page, let us know1. Use the contact form.
- if I find time, I’ll redesign in the summer [↩]