If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?
– Scott Adams
FAQs
I’m always surprised at the amount of questions I get on my sites and their content. Even though this domain is fairly new, I’ve already started to get a lot of questions about it—and some of the same questions tend to pop up over and over again. Having to choose between hiring a press agent and making an FAQs page, I chose the latter—and here it is.
General
What does “Without Feathers” mean?
It’s derived from an Emily Dickinson poem; the term implies “without hope”. Learn more at the About page.
Are you hosting?
Not at the moment, and probably never on this domain.
Are you accepting affiliates?
Yes, I am! If you’re interested in affiliating with me, please contact me and shower me with praise and expensive gifts—or, if you’re grumpy and broke, just make it short and sweet and I’ll check your site out. Sites with loads of interesting, well-spelled content make me squirm with joy in my computer chair; so do pretty, well-designed sites, but I prefer content any day.
Works
Can I post your work(s) on my own site or a message board?
Perhaps. Please e-mail me to ask permission first. (Oh, and not to state the obvious or anything, but it helps if you’re polite. You’d be amazed at how many peremptory e-mails I get, telling me to turn over my work like it’s my damn duty. If you write like that, just assume the answer is NO.)
Can I copy one of your works for my school assignment?
No. In case you didn’t know, turning in someone else’s work as your own is called “plagiarism”, and that’s against the rules in every school I’ve ever heard of. If you get caught plagiarizing (and trust me, you will—my mother’s a teacher, I’ve seen her in action), you’ll be suspended, put on academic probation, or even kicked out of school. Plus, I just don’t want to let you reap the scholastic benefits of my own labor—why should I go to all the trouble of looking up sources, formulating theories, and writing a decent essay, just so you can skip all that work and pretend it’s yours? Also, my essays are all listed in multiple search engines—meaning that, should you turn in my essay as your own work and should your teacher decide to put a few phrases into a search engine and look it up online, your ass is busted. I’ve already gotten a few referrals from anti-plagiarism sites, which means that a few folks have already gotten caught.
Can I cite one of your works for my school assignment?
No. The essays I’ve written are school papers and opinion pieces, not scholarly articles; I am not an expert on any of those subjects, and should not be treated as such. Do what I did, and go to the library; you’ll find better, more up-to-date sources there.
Will you help me with my school assignment?
No. I’m not a professional teacher or tutor, and I don’t really have the time. Sorry.
Blog
Why don’t you use blogging software?
Personally, I find it easier to create and upload my pages by hand than to wrestle with MySQL databases and tangled blog templates, and blog systems always seem to become obsolete the minute you install them. By hand-coding my pages and templates, I can rest assured that my entries show up exactly the way I want them to. Plus I always have a copy on my hard drive, so I never need to back up a database or worry if my server hiccups and loses all my entries.
I filled out the comments form, but my comment never showed up on the page.
That’s not really a traditional blog comment form; it’s an e-mail form. Your message won’t show up on the page; it’s mailed directly to my inbox instead.
Bits
Where do you get all those articles?
Everywhere; some I write myself, some I find online, some I get from my family and friends.
Can I use one of your articles/quizzes/whatevers on my own site?
Certainly, if I’ve labeled it as one I found online. If it’s one I’ve written myself, please e-mail me first and ask; I’ll probably say yes, I just want to know where it’s going.
Exit
Will you link to my site?
Maybe, if I really, really like your site. (Don’t be offended if I don’t link you; I’m just ridiculously picky.) Drop me an e-mail with your URL and I’ll come by your site for a visit.
