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

Hi there and welcome to H2G2.

I am Flanker and I'm an Assistant Community Editor <./>ACE</.> which is a sort of official greeter.

Part of our job is to be there if any help is needed by a new researcher and make sure that they can find their way about the site.

To do this I thought you might like a quick list of places and things that are available to help you.

Firstly find out more about some of the jargon used on h2g2 try A632431 and A901829 then if you want to jazz up your own user page then go to 'Spicing up your User Page' (A690518).

Another thing which will help you along the road is our newspaper <./>ThePost</.> which contains lots of news, articles and links to all the groups and meetings places.

Feisor, another <./>ACE</.>has created a page of hints and links for new researchers at A719840. which along with the <./>DontPanic</.> Help Centre (which can be reached via the 'Help!' button on the toolbar at the top.) are really good pages to start with.

One last thing is (smileys). The full list is at <./>smileys</.> and you can find out more about them there.

I, personnally, tend to hang about <./>Askh2g2</.>, which is usually fairly busy. So I'll maybe catch you there.



If you have any questions, need any help or want a bit of encouragement simply reply to this message and I'll be there as soon as I can .


HTH & HAND.

Flanker

Thank you for your kind if boilerplate welcome. I'll keep that handy to help me find my way around. I don't know yet where I will generally hang out but whereever it turns out to be I'm sure you'll find me there if that is in fact where I am. If I am there.

Mostly you'll find me standing around with a blank expression on my face. Since you can't see my face it should be easy for you to imagine as long as it's blank.

Thank you again, who ever you are, and so on.

Sorry if it seems a bit boilerplateish but I live on the Clyde which used to have a reputation for building fantastic ships so perhaps that explains it