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

Has it always been like that Vip? I wondered if that's why Deb was never Aced.

Certainly since 200...5? when we went to Single Sign-On. It may well have been from before then as well though. 2003 rings a bell for some reason, don't know why though.

Solnushka was my ACE. Witty Ditty has very helpful in the early days too.


Geggs

Hiya kea! I wasn't an ACE for very long, and I've forgotten who I'd ACEd - but I always felt good about it. Now I know that at least one person I greeted has stuck around, which is nice.

I just kind of drifted away for a while and I've kind of drifted back a bit, in a vague and drifty kind of way. Vague and drifty is what I do. It's good to see some old names and faces around though - and some really old names and faces these last few days!

My initial greeting back in October 2000 was from Galaxy Babe, who was an Archangel at the time, apparently. Are there still Archangels on here? Not sure how they differed from ACEs. Anyway, then I was ACEd twice - by Androyd who seems not to be around anymore, and by Jimi X, who welcomed me to h2g2.com!

So I was certainly made to welcome and that definitely encouraged me to stick around.

Guardian Angels weren't an official volunteer group, but their purpose was similar to the ACEs. The Archangels were their leadership group.

broelan. That does sound familiar now you mention it...

I have always thought I wasn't ACE'd when I first joined in May 2000, but I've just gone back there and discovered a post from someone called Androyd "utopian dreamer" who hasn't posted since 2002, and who apologised for not ACEing me earlier - I had joined in the May of 2000, but my ACE message did not appear until July 2000 ... perhaps for the reason given above.

When I re-registered in October 2000 after some problems logging in, I was greeted by Will Jenkins, with whom I had already had quite a lot of contact in my first guise.

I never contacted either of them in their capacity as ACE - after all, I'd already spent 2 months on site before one came at all.

When was the ACE system introduced?

Unc was my ACE, a week or two after my first posts. I referred to her as "Old Man" several times before she told me that she was a 22-year-old Nottingham University student. And studying geology, the 'Unc' was short for unconformity.

(I still call her Old Man sometimes in phone calls or e-mails)

TC, in the end of November 1999.
Presentation of the brand new volunteer scheme in the brand new Post: A469262

I was Aced by Dr E Vibenstein. I didn't reply until two years later.

(I talked with him a few minutes later at the Newcomers' Welcome Page A5752 though! )

I was multi-ACEd. Aaron O'Keefe was my first ACE, though I didn't reply to him for a few months, and he was gone by then Amy+ also ACEd me, because she couldn't resist saying hi to someone with the same name Feisor did, too, but more as a response to a tagline I had at the time Plus, for a short while, ACE recruiting included having the recruits practice greeting someone who'd been around awhile, so I have ACE messages from Emmily, SEF, Rho, and Owlofdoom.

Feisor ACEd me, and a couple of years later came to feature in the very short list of h2g2 researchers I've actually met. (As I've mentioned before around the place, geography is a right little nuisance sometimes.)

Captain Kebab! Good to see you are still drifting around

So Ottox, how come you found out about the site so early in the day, IIRC you were in Denmark at that time?