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

you haven't upset anybody when stepping up for me. It was a noble gesture, especially since I managed to upset a few people (well, at least one, I guess), so thank you.

for you in the future challenges.

It needed to be said, no thanks necessary!

Reading post one I'm assuming that's about me. However, since Merry Anne "apologised" here F12361971?thread=6294730&latest=1 for the misunderstanding which caused her to pull her entry and leave the competition, I'd like to clarify, are you talking about ME or *one* being ambiguous for the sake of lurkers?

No, it is not about you. This is an online forum. There is always (or nearly always) at least one person who is upset by whatever you say. I was generally speaking.
Psycorp's post was made on my behalf, although I felt it was unnecessary as I had left the contest anyway. Still, I wanted to acknowledge it, which is why I came over here. There wasn't anything more to say after his reply, and I'd have left this thread lie if it hadn't been for your intervention.
Why would I want to stir up bad feelings, or even wreck the competition? I think the competition is a great idea.
However, your posts here and on the other thread show just how easy it is to misconstrue a post. It happened to me, and I apologised. I meant it. Now it happened to you. It makes me feel a little bit better (although not much, I'm still mortified).
Had I wanted to do what you are accusing me of, I certainly wouldn't have missed any chance of doing so, don't you think? But I didn't. I didn't post anywhere, hoping things would calm down and people would just forget about all this.
I'm not going to reply to your other post. I'll leave it to you to clarify things if you feel like it.
I'm not out to 'get' you. I just misunderstood something. I had hoped I had made it clear how it happened. I'm not proud of it, but it wasn't deliberate.
If you can't accept that, I'm sorry. I wouldn't know what else to do.

As an afterthought: Psycorp, please don't reply to the link request. It's not worth it, imo, and I'd feel responsible, even though I know I'm not, and that you make your own decisions.

Just to clarify where I was coming from, I wasn't talking about the scores for this entry. In any contest, there will always be scores that you disagree with and it's a judge's prerogative to hand them out. Par for the course.

What I thought wasn't fair was people in PR weighing in with "this isn't what the EG is for - because I think so" and "I don't like this entry at all."

PR isn't a contest. For people in PR to go "this isn't guideworthy because of my personal opinion" is brutal, unjustified and unfair.

<> where, Merry Anne?