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

Sorry all, but I'm going to have to hand in my resignation from the Stretcher.

I'm not really enjoying h2g2 at present, and while I thought the Stretcher might help with that, it hasn't really.

So, with heavy heart I have to drop out of the running.

Thanks all

Matt

I have enjoyed reading your entries.

Heavy hearts all round, I think

That's a real shame, Matt - sorry to see you go

Thanks guys, but I wouldn't be doing myself, or the comp, justice if I kept on putting stuff in I felt was just not 'me'. I need a breather, cool my heels and blow away the cobwebs.

I'll drop by, and take up a few of the challenges that take my fancy I promise.

Good luck to the rest of the competitors, I'm looking forward to reading more inspiring stuff

Not another one leaving

Sorry about that, Matt. I'm sure you'd have done well had you stayed.


Hope I haven't started a trend.

Aw that's a shame, we'll miss you.

Sorry to hear this, Matt. Hope the breather helps with the cobwebs.

(Spring is around the corner. I keep telling myself this.)

What dmitri said. And for Merry Ann and Frenchbean being out too.

I may have just snuck back in again

Sorry to see you go, Matt. Good luck.

Can you blame Merry Anne? There was some real brutality directed at that last entry, and very little of it deserved.

Link, Psycorp?

The PR thread for the filther entry. I won't name names, but there are two people who I thought should know better.

By "filther thread" do you mean F48874?thread=6264417
becayse that's a humongous thread it will take me some time to read can you just confirm first, please?

No. I mean the PR thread attached to MA's last submission about the h2g2 profanity filter (or "filther") in colloquial terms in these here parts.

that's been deleted and Merry Anne has unsubbed, so it was almost impossible to find. However, I know a few other places and here is the link: F12427555?thread=6263813 for anyone else interested.

Yes I had a quick look at it (from a roundabout route).

I think the entry suffered from something that all of us choosing a topic for the last challenge had to tackle: do we write an essay about a controversial topic? Or do we concentrate on producing something that is recognisably Guide-acceptable? And risk being accused of not stretching enough

IMHO, the Guide is evolving, and there's no hard and fast rules about what should and shouldn't be in it. But it would be a shame to see it not push some boundaries of its own.