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

I suppose DNA is happy.....The Guide is a hit. It's become huge.....a marketing success.

I miss last year. Back when it was coming together. Back when it was a community.

It's not that anymore. It can't be. All of us who were here for the last year and a half(almost) knew this day would come. When the Guide would get so large it could not be enjoyed.

When it would become it's intended purpose. A repository of useful, as well as not so useful, knowledge compiled by amatures.

Now some of those amatures consider themselves pros. If only they were.

Mr. Adams.....your guide has become what you predicted in your "trilogy"......an ungainly, unfeeling massive directory.

To paraphrase....If you give 1000 monkeys 1000 typewriters, in a year and a half they can set you up one hell of a beauracracy compleate with a fully operational pecking order.

If you don't believe that, see if the first person in here(if there are any) doesn't correct my spelling mistakes first off!!!!

"Goodnight Sweet Princess, Whoever You Are!"

NM

I fully agree NM. I tried to get that same message across for several months now, albeit a bit more subtle.... It's just that being subtle apparently doesn't work any longer on h2g2.

As for the newbies :

Yes, some ruin the fun for the veterans-researchers.
As for the rest : I made about 7 or 8 people sign up for h2g2 and lately I get the feeling that I shouldn't have done that. I told them what h2g2 was all about but the old definition doesn't apply anymore.

To say this bluntly : H2g2 feels more and more like f*****g Usenet.

I sincerely believe that DNA's goal of a complete online-repository of "Terran knowledge" will never ever be met the way it's going now. 75 % of the fora are about boozing, drinking and whatever.

It's not so long ago that you could actually talk about real subjects and get good input back. Nowadays one can only learn something about virtual drinking. Good, great, thank you...

TM.

Real subjects? I havn't found any of those in a long time. I use to enjoy a bit of a jouist(sp) over in the government and religion forums. After I got my good thrashing there, I could go back to the "Fiction forums" and poke a bit of fun at whoever was making up the "garbage" today! It took my mind off the latest Article I was considering writing, sure....but it wound me down for the eve!

There is an old saying that "Too many cooks spoil the broth".....looks as though we are there.

I'm not familiar with Usenet......I've seen that comparison more than once in the last week......guess I need to see what it is!....Shall I guess....www.usenet.com?

Tell Shazz I said "HI". Don't give up the Post just yet.......wait till one of the "pro" newbies step up to the plate!!!LOL

NM

Hi NM,

Yes...in those days men were real men, women were real women, and small furry......

And no no no, as far as I know Usenet is also a community or sorts... but it has no moderators...
So anything goes there, quite the jungle that the anti-internet lobby claims all of the web to be.

*HEY SHAZZ...*
*Yes ?*
*NM says HI*
*Hi NM !*

TM.(Topic Minder)

Was I right, or wrong? No one has corrected my spelling mistakes, but you and I are the only ones here, TM!

Well, it's not a surprise. Too many doors in the house!

NM

Well...aktualy, I new you where goin too say that...so too make you heppy, I korrected one if your typoos wen I kopied the entrie too my page...

As for typos on forum-entries : DoH !!

TM.

Thanck ewe!

NM

Nut at all

Sowwy gyze... I haf to corect s/p's for the Post, but I prmis not to doit to uw ever agin!
shazzMPER

Gut...

Yore tha' bestest;,,..thanks hole bunches!

NM

Don't mention id my deer fello...

TM.

NM

Especially not MY id...

TM.

My Id?.....is that sumpthin' lik that feller Homer wrote back a long time ago?....or iz this more 'long the sycological lines?

Ya' knows...that stuff Fraud rote!

NM

Fraud? Ain't that wot sum geezer rote abaht lovin yure ma or somat like that?
shaxzPmre

Nah, dad's sex...

TM.

Ahhh... yu mean that stuff oldens dont do no more?
shaxzMpre

Define 'old'...

Not until u define stuff
shazz