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

To quote Abi in an earlier post "If you wish to make a complaint, the best way to do so is to do so via http://www.bbc.co.uk/feedback."

This is merely a bookmark, not a real comment
I intend (or hope) to summarise the various arguments both for and against the BBC policy, but have other things to do. I won't post anything here at the minute, as it is likely to merely repeat somebody else's comments from somewhere I haven't yet read. However, I have read this far and am interested in the range of opinions and arguments put forth.
As I say, a bookmark in the hope of summarising later...

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Cheers Feisor, but I already tried that without success.

On the feedback page you suggested, it gives you this option if you're looking to comment upon a BBCi service -

"If you would like to comment on a BBCi website or service please use the search box below to locate its feedback form."

If you then plug the word "h2g2" into said search box and hit go, it comes back with no results found!

Not terribly helpful that, is it

How can I be hidden for discussion policy on the thread about the policy.

To post on the BBCi messageboards *shouldn't* require anyone to re-register - however they do ask you to choose a username (although they ask for firstname & lastname) and agree to the message boards revised rules.

Once registered for one messageboard you are registered to all of them....including http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-perl/h2/h2.cgi?state=threads&board=essentials.iraq&&sort=T the Iraq messageboard in the radio1 onelife messageboard.

I still think it's a little daft of the bbc, I wonder why they couldn't have asked hootooers to restrict discussions to one forum and put that one forum on full moderation the same as has been done on the *two* BBCi messageboards.

Actually I want to complain about the BBCi feedback page it does not maje it clear how to get a complaint in to them in the slightest. Have any of you guys tried.

I'm off to the press instead. I cvan get published in at least two papers with the right letter. I pay my licence fee after all.

can i add a plea to ask people not to post about the war in this thread. all thats going to happen is the thread will end up with lots of gaps in it and anyone who reads it later will find it difficult to follow.

deliberately and blatantly ignoring the new policy will just p*ss people off (its already p*ssing me off and i disagree with the policy.)


and as Mina said posting about the war will jeopordise the moderation status of the whole site.

Ok, I won't post about the war. In fact I haven't mentioned it directly at all in this thread.

What I *have* done is post about the BBC editorial policy with regards to any war, which is an entirely different subject!

"I still think it's a little daft of the bbc, I wonder why they couldn't have asked hootooers to restrict discussions to one forum and put that one forum on full moderation the same as has been done on the *two* BBCi messageboards."

that would be a very good compromise PencilQueen.


any chance of this Mina? or other italics?

Where was this messageboard again?

I agree that sort of approach would be an excellent idea

They did something similar back with the Twin Towers disaster, in centralsing all of the various threads that were popping up all over the place about it into one location. They then posted up a bloody great big signpost saying, "this way for 9/11 debates". It worked very well indeed.

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BG, there were a whole bunch of posts before which were actually discussions about iraq. it seemed stupid to be doing that particularly on this thread. also as you can tell i was finding it annoying.

you didn't get modded for discussing the policy did you?

We discussed this some weeks ago, and it's impossible to put part of h2g2 into post/pre moderation to deal with this.

Which is why I did not post what my name did actually contain until some point between 2000 yesterday and 1200 today.

what about if the GURUs and ACEs and other researchers agreed to a stringent peer moderation of a dedicated 'war' thread?

i know that that would be quite a difficult thing to do in terms of everyone knowing where the boundaries are, but it might still be possible.

Thats a shame...

all of the BBCi message boards have been having technical difficulties for the last few weeks (well all the ones I use - onelife, points of view, ouch!, bbc3, holiday, the great debates and a couple of others)

and the restrictions on external url's are inconsistently implemented (yesterday I had a posting pulled from onelife for recommending the thorn tree moderated message board, I challenged the decision and they agreed and asked me to repost, I reposted and it's been pulled again and I haven't recieved another mod email)

Plus if something is modded and you challenge the decision there is no facility for the mods to reinstate the posting - it has to be resubmitted via copy and paste from the e-mail (which isn't going to be an option for the digibox people).

I've spent the last few months telling everyone on the other boards how great h2g2 is and how much extra freedom we've got - it would be a shame if some of those people have arrived only to be sent straight back.

No I've not been modded for discussing policy.

I have been modded for being slightly rude about John Prescott in another thread, and I have suggested an edit that I hope will get my message across.

I can quite understand why you find the missing posts to be a pain, I do to.

Now this brings me to wonder whether when this is all over, if those postings will reappear, or will they stay hidden for ever more?

I'm sorry, but we cannot discuss any other options. The policy that we have implemented is the only one that BBC Editorial policy will accept.

D***n D****r,

"Which is why I did not post what my name did actually contain until some point between 2000 yesterday and 1200 today."


sorry, you've lost me there... what do you mean?