h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

It's easy really, just look for old friends

I found lots of friends in there, or rather, they have found me.

I just keep forgetting my password and by the time I've read the backlog, I've forgotten what I was going to say.

Yeah, my friends found me, poeple I'd totally forgotten about

i think i'm a facebook widdow...
Joe's found all the games...

theres still a conversation or two active but its mostly quiet
the same as the rest of the site really

You too? Everytime I comment about how quiet h2 is someone slaps me down and tells me "It's busier than ever" so I don't bother any more, I can go for a few days without coming to h2 where as a few years ago I'd spend hours here

yes a few years ago you'd go away for a week-end and have trouble finding your personal space under the backlog

now your lucky to find more than five new posts and if two of those justify a reply...

I know what you mean

How's the Assassin's Guild? still going or not

not paticularly
we get a new member now and then
but its mostly people looking for stuff to put on there PS I think

Ah, badge collecting

this place (meaning the site in general)
needs something to liven it up
the funness has gone missing somewhere and it makes me slightly sad because it used to be so viberant

It's because we were so tightly reigned in a couple of years back, the fanny filter, the tightning of the rules about what you could and couldn't say, Jimster jackbooting over everything with his "I'm the editor, do as you're told or you'll get suspended". A lot of internal squabbles between various cliques and that Wolfden affair put a lot of people off too and people voted with their mice and clicked off to Live Journal and Facebook

yes and now everything is gone
even jimster has up and left

I refuse to join the myspace crowd but its not unappealing
I can live with the profanity filter
the complete ban on political thought
the fact the beeb panic at every little possible thing that can be taken the wrong way even if it wasn't meant like that
I've had a few things removed from the site which i don't think were fair
but the community has gone, moved else where, gone on permanent leave
and us few (very few) older researchers who remain to see it overtaken by political correctness and censorship
*sigh*
and I used to be exited to see what had been done, I thought it might just possibly survive the test of time
foolish optimisum

I agree whole heartedly, even the edited guide isn't what it used to be, I used to enjoy the fun articles but now they have to be bunged full of facts and dry as a bone, the eds tried too hard to turn it into a credible wiki and failed, no-one wants to write. And the nasty goings on in PR didn't help, that's really put me off, I stick to fiction (when I get the time)

the last entry i wrote was kinda fun
"how to get dressed with a towel on your head"
but I don't feel like writing another one at the moment
PR is enough to put most people off when you try hard to write an article and your stuck in PR for months talking about how you might possibly make changes that will only be changed back by the sub editor
I enjoy drawing for the site
but i find it hard to get inspiring entry's to illustrate

The last piece I wrote was How to Knit a Pair of Socks, it was the 'Holier than thou' attitude that annoyed me no end in PR, I theory was (and still is) who the hell is worried about the right punctuation mark in the right place if the piece is entertaining. I didn't help myself by calling them a bunch of frustrated English teachers

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Upage:Cant find
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Extra Abilities:Tracking, survivalist.
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Upage:
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you know your the second person ever other than myself to choose that you think i wouldn't take notice but I'm rather boring that way