Technical Questions & Answers
Q: Why don’t you have the weather?
A: OBERLIN.COM does not use banners, pop-ups, imported javascript snipets (such as for news feeds or weather) or any other instruments intended to produce commercial site revenue. As a result, you will not be seeing any glitzy ads for low rate home loans, automobile insurance or celebrity-endorsed enema bags on our home page.
Q: Since you are commercial website, isn’t it true that you rely on businesses for your revenue and, in fact, you too are a business and thus directly or indirectly prey upon the lowly masses, whereupon you use great cunning and guile to extract the most of their precious resources from them in an effort to engorge your already burgeoning coffers?
A: Yes.
Q: What are the worthy causes to which OBERLIN.COM will donate a percentage of business sales?
A: For 2010 - 2011:
Update: Even though to this point (January 2012) everything on the site is still free, OBERLIN.COM has submitted small donations to the organizations listed above. We encourage you to do the same. To give us the greatest flexibility, and help limit us from prosecution, we will no longer announce ahead of time the worthy causes to which OBERLIN.COM will donate.
We calculate that the suspense will be unbearable.
Q: I would like to post an opinion. Are you going to censor me because you do not agree with my views?
A: We will never block any content (providing it does not violate our Terms and Conditions). This holds true even if you espouse views that are even slightly off point from those to which we have ascribed as perfect and correct and thus are perfect and correct.
Q: I am interested in journalism. Do you have any positions available?
A: We are an extremely small fry in the Internet ocean but would love to help any to the best of our abilities. (Translation: We have no money but would be willing to to take a chance on a student or has-been.)
Q: Can ego stipes effercio in a extrarius lingua?
A: Nullus
Q: How can we be sure that you are actually channeling money to worthy causes in Oberlin and not frittering away the earmarked funds on women and booze?
A: With just a little research, one can discover that our financial institutions, in the Caymans and Nigeria, are noted for being associated only with clients of the highest caliber and above reproach in matters of ethics, morality and legality.
Q: This section entitled Technical Questions and Answers (T&A) seems to have been crafted to target the base prurient interests of your readers. As a woman, I am not only offended, but also disappointed, that you have stooped to such a low level in a feeble attempt to garner more traffic to your site.
A: You are absolutely correct. Although it was not our intention to inflate site traffic via the method you suggest, we have become keenly aware that our naming of this section could be construed as inappropriate and tasteless. As a result, we are considering renaming it as Titillating Questions and Answers. Let us know your feelings. Input from users is always welcome, Babe.
Q: Why don’t you allow user comments on your site?
A: We do have provisions for user comments on all Opinion/Commentary content as well as those of My Twisted World. We would certainly consider expanding such capability if a number of users requested it. Update: We now have comments for news links.
Q: You claim to have new puzzles every day but when listing all the previous ones using "See All" there are gaps in the dates. What gives?
A: Unlike things like the words and quotes which show automatically on the front page, puzzles must be "clicked" to be seen. We only archive puzzles that have actually been played so gaps in the list indicate days in which nobody played the puzzle.
Q: I added a listing but it is not showing up anywhere on the site.
A: This is not a question but we shall supply an answer anyhow. All items submitted to OBERLIN.COM are moderated. This means they are reviewed to help ensure compliance with our Terms and Conditions and that they also fall within our razor thin band of ideological thinking. In addition, page caching, which is used to speed downloads, may impose further delays of up to an hour.
