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

I have decided that I am off out of here.

I have tried to join in by starting several threads, most of which get hijacked in one way or another. That's OK - that is what the Forum is for I suppose, and I have enjoyed exchanges with some of you. But it is getting tedious now, or perhaps I am getting too old.

So thanks to all who agree with me on anything, and more thanks to those who didn't, but taught me to look at myself again.

I'll say goodbye with a quote from Azahar , somewhat surprisingingly really,

<< Thank you. I know I've also annoyed a lot of people, but in the immortal words of the Divine Ms M (modified for the censors) - flick 'em if they can't take a joke.>>

Cheers

Novo

Sorry to see you go Novo.

Whilst I usually seem to come at most things from the opposite direction to you I think you have contributed a lot to the Forum and I hope you re-consider.

FB

Sorry to have you leave Novo. I know I've not appreciated your posts until very recently, but that was my fault not yours. And I've always considered you a key "member" of the forum.

I don't understand when people storm off a site. Obviously, sometimes certain people get annoying and certain threads become tedious but I tend to feel the solution is to leave those specific parts of the site and keep posting/reading elsewhere. This place has frustrated me enormously in the past, I don't really consider it a particularly good site any more and I don't post as regularly as I did, say, five years ago but I still visit and I still post because I'm still basically here.

Novo, I'm much more of a Forum lurker than poster, but I'll miss your contributions. I also hope you'll reconsider.

Seco..er...Fifthed.

There have been too many people leaving recently. Have a look at some other parts of h2g2.

Slow down a bit, perhaps, if you feel you need to, but don't suddenly dissapear on us.

(I haven't started a conversation in Ask or The Forum in yonks. I must think of something interesting. Might be a while.)

TRiG.

Im sad to see Novo go and I think he's sad about leaving...I think this is the first thing we have agreed on.

That's not funny but it is ironic. so many times we disagreed he claimed that I shoudnt have taken things seriously and that he was trying to be light hearted, well I think it his fault if other people dont see the humour.

Im tempted to say flick him if he cant take critisism, but that's a bit harsh when what I really mean is it is a shame he cant take critism and is reduced to blaming others for what is afterall his choice.

If that's what he was trying to do...maybe he was only joking

Hope you change your mind, novo.

I do feel it's sad when people want to give up h2g2 completely like that.
Does it mean that people join without really exploring & appreciating what goes on, have the researcher's requirements changed (RL changes can make a difference), or has the site really changed so radically? I've been around for quite a while now, I find the interest & activity waxes & wanes and I think it is a bit low at the moment.

Ciao.

Hey Novo,

Do me a favour, yeah? Come back in a couple of months and post a few things and see how it feels. You're probably just bored of the place right now. It might be different in the future.

My h2g2 activity is in a serious trough right now, but I've never considered announcing my retirement from the site - it seems a little bit of a bizarre thing to do. Though I don't post much right now, I still find myself checking "my conversations" in my Opera panel a few times a day, and follow a lot of the forum and SEx threads - which is a good sign I suppose.

I personally think the forum could do with a higher percentage of non-political threads, hence my post about Ulysses. Variety is the spice of life.

*Off the check if askh2g2 is still annoying as it used to be...*


Ste

Sorry you feel that way Novo. I always thought you made valid points and were "part of the furniture", so to speak.

Have a trawl through the other BBC message boards for a while. It'll help you see H2G2 in a new light.

Things are far more civilised here and the posts tend to be quite lucid.

(Of course I except Trig, Anhaga, Az, Blues, Mu Beta, Blicky, SWL, Airscotia, Guru Rogan Josh, B'Elena and MMF from that list. They're all incoherent imbeciles and I wouldn't look at their posts if they had £10 notes attached.)

I plough my efforts into writing for nowadays (new series coming soon)

I think Douglas Adam would be spinning, considering the over-riding theme of his books was of jumped-up authoritarians taking themselves *far* too seriously.

DNA was an entertainer who provoked thought. The thought-provoking was important but without the entertainment, nobody would have been provoked into thinking.

Let the Guide follow his lead.

"DNA was an entertainer who provoked thought. The thought-provoking was important but without the entertainment, nobody would have been provoked into thinking."

Very nice SWL
That is how I choose to see this site and DNA. It's why I stay and vary in how I use it, only reading much of the time.

There are more readers than posters to the forum,the guide, S.E.X.,ASK not to mention numerous other places.

You might consider that novo.
There are more readers than posters! You never know whom you are affecting. Help to provoke new thoughtsor fine tune some and get a laugh or two like DNA *may have wanted. It is what many are here for.

You are allowed to change your mind, eat your words or be mildy and momentarily wrong More than 42 have realised after saying bye, more like 42 hundred.

Good Luck whatever you decide

Yup. I too ducked out and returned and ducked out and returned. Not due to tedious or what ever anyone else has to say, but life styles change. New things take over. I hope you will return. H2G2 often needs people who return with fresh ideas. Keep posting, keep reading and return.We need fresh insights

>>I don't understand when people storm off a site.<<

I don't see Novo as storming off the site I see him giving a considered and considerate goodbye. Nothing wrong with that, in fact it shows a level of respect often missing here.

>>
Do me a favour, yeah? Come back in a couple of months and post a few things and see how it feels. You're probably just bored of the place right now. It might be different in the future.
<<

Good idea.


I too think Novo is part of the place and have an appreciation for the energy he's brought to the Forum. It's a mixed thing for me - I don't post much in the Forum now because it's become so UK focussed. I don't mean that the threads have UK topics, I mean that many of the discussions are so parochial that it's difficult to be involved if one doesn't know the topic well, or isn't in the UK.

I've asked a number of times for people to post either links or introductions to topics, and while in the past (say over a year ago) this was respected, I would have to say more recently I've been met with less than positive reactions, including from Novo (who seems to start alot of UK focussed threads). *shrug*. So from my point of view, Novo has played a part in the Forum becoming a smaller place - perhaps this is related to why he now doesn't enjoy it so much.


I've also heard that there's been alot of bollix, argumentative type stuff on the Forum - same old same old then

It concerns me too that so many people are leaving, not because the site will fail but because it's a less interesting place for me now. But then I'm someone who's likely to drift away rather than resign and I must admit it's hard to feel excited about the place at the moment. I guess I've crossed over a line there where I'm happy to turn up sometimes, but there isn't the same pull as there used to be.

I do hope that people like Novo (and others who have 'left') do come back after some time out.

Zagreb: >I don't understand when people storm off a site.<

What can be more fun than flouncing off once in a while? I've done it plenty of times, and here I am, back again

Morning All

It is posible that you have noticed that I am back, well...almost

Novo

Sorry, who are you again?