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

Entry: 911 –"Who is really to blame?" - A3883692
Author: james-hamid - U1352732

It is not really possible to design tall, safe buildings.

This really isn't suitable for Peer Review at present since it's a speculative piece written in the first person. All entries submited to Peer Review should follow the Writing-Guidelines, and this doesn't do that at the moment.

If you want you can rewrite this so that it's does fit the guidlines, but that would probably require major rewriting. Right now it may be best to remove this by going to the PeerReview and pressing the remove button next to this entry. If you wish to re-submit this at a later time then you can do that.

Done as asked but calling yoursel 'god' could be considered speculative

I'm mearly A god. There's dozens of us.

Mostly with rather inflated estimates of their own self-importance!

But of course. It's part of god DNA.

Seriously though.
I am new to this game. When I stumbled across h2g2, I was interested, partly because I was one of the few people who listened to and (probably illegally) recorded the original broadcast of the Hitchhikers’ Guide. I have read many of the entries and told other people (teachers) about the site as a source of simple, interesting things for students. I then submitted something – was stunned by the peer reaction – and then re-read the entries.
As ‘journalism’, they are mostly as boring as hell. Few –if any – grab the reader and draw them into the piece and all the ‘peer’ criticism (in which I am (was) interested) actually mitigates against anyone being able to do this.
Pedantic parade of facts they are and to my mind a travesty of what the Hitchhikers’ Guide was all about.
The Internet fascinates me but it has yet to really discover itself, "A bloke down the pub told me…" but … Down the pub you’d get your face filled in, down the pub you have the choice ‘look and listen’ or talk crap and run the risk. The Internet may evolve into a completely new form of ‘journalism’ but with ‘gods’ rapping knuckles it will go the wrong way – produce endless boring trivia and mindless people saying ‘had an excrement day today……’

Well we might disagree with your assessment of the Edited Guide
However do not despair
Entries that do not meet the Writing Guidelines such as opinion pieces can be submitted to the Alternative Writing Workshop
Entries from there sometimes appear in The Post or are selected for the Underguide

Well h2g2 isn't entirly about the edited guide. About half the regular researchers on here probably haven't even written an entry and Peer Review may as well be a part of some other site for them. There are various community aspects such as <./>Askh2g2</.> where you can just go and chat, and there are societies such as the Assassins guild (A1123372), the infamous Thingites (A516647), and my personal favourite The Masters of the Multi-Verse (A2334007).

But the edited guide is the main aspect of the site and we try to keep it to a certain standard.

One other thing to remember - the man who created the radio show created h2g2.

But he didn't (as I've recently learned) create the Edited Guide

That aside, there are always those who think that the EG should be more in the style of the original HHGTTG, and there's an argument for that, but it's one which we've been through many times, and are currently going through again. I sort of sit on the fence about it - which many who know me might find surprising, because on the one hand it would be great to have an EG that fits the one in Douglas' vision, especially the bit about the coffee and the cheesecake, which is why I've always come down on the side of calling this thing a guide rather than an encyclopaedia.

On the other hand, a guide is a much more difficult beast to keep under control

It’s still unpleasantly like being drunk and I still think the sticklers would get their heads filled in down at the Vole & Whippets.