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

As you probably all know that all pre-BBC content has been hidden, pending moderation, and this forms a second, 'legacy' queue. When there is no new content requiring moderation, the Moderators work through the legacy content.

I thought you'd like to know how this is progressing. At the moment we're reached as far back as the Entries from mid-January 2000 and the Postings from mid-September 2000.

And we only have another 20,043 legacy Entries to check!

Hmmmm,

So how long do we have to wait for the conversations hanging off this entry to reappear

http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/A339194

(Or are they to be classified top secret and moderated on the spot)



whisky

I heard that.

* rolls around on the floor ing insanely *

Dancer

Mark's love life is an open book....


an open book on an empty page

;^)#

The Legacy Entries that are being moderated today are those originally posted on December 31 1999.

So Happy New Year everyone, we're back to 1999 again!

*dreads Y2K all over again*

It's okay Jimi, we've just whizzed painlessly past it, we're going backwards remember, just like my age...

So do you have any idea of a time frame and who's winning the sweepstake currently

Seems as good as any place to ask this. I have a few conversation posts that got hidden during the post-BBC bulk re-moderation, and of course in those far-off days, e-mails weren't being sent to explain moderation decisions. Yesterday I got a distinct sense of deja vu as I realised I was telling somebody roughly the same thing I think I told someone else 18 months ago in another thread where my post is now hidden. So how do I get to find out what I wrote and why it got hidden, and if I disagree with the decision how can I appeal for it to come back? I certainly have a hidden post in: http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/F19585?thread=88738 (I know its there 'cause I commented at the time that I didn't know why) and I'm pretty sure I have hidden posts in: http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/F58441?thread=88977 and http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/F41815?thread=85301 ;-)

The first two were hidden due to a bug - if the moderator had to remove a URL if they edited the post after they passed the postings they were working on, the post would stay hidden.

I've unhidden the posts, and for good measure put back the URLs that were removed (since they looked OK to me under the new rules).

The third one isn't yours, but I've unhidden it anyway as it appears the moderator failed to get the joke.

That's great, thanks

I am having a bit of a Twilight Zone experience though, since it was the (third) Linguistic Isolates coversation I was having the deja vu about I wonder where it was I discussed it then

Any chance of an update on where we're at with the legacy queue?

Looks like conversation threads are back to 7th Sept 2000 (look at the oldest Ask H2G2 thread...

As to entries - no idea how to find out

Cheers big-ears!

how did you know???

*covers ears and looks around the office for a hidden webcam*

Just an Aussie saying, didn't mean to 'out' you

According to my sources, there are only 580 articles left in legacy moderation hell.

Thanks Jim!

Oh yeah, and thanks to the Mods too, I suppose