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

I'm Granny Weatherwax, one of the Assistant Community Editors (ACEs) around here, we are volunteers who flit from space to space welcoming beings to the wonderful workd of h2g2 so.....

WELCOME, drag up a comfy chair, settle down and have a or a . Some places you may want to take a look at are:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/Askh2g2, for all those irritating little questions,
http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/HowdoI, for all those things you meant to learn but never got round to!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/Thepost, our very own newspaper out on Thursdays,
http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/Talk, this is where you can find Abi's Community Activities, and read up on what is happening online and in Real Life.

After all that if you have any questions or just fancy a chat then either hit reply (in 99% of all cases it doesn't hit back) or click on my name at the top of this posting and leave me a message. I'll get back to you. If I'm not about, please feel free to ask/chat with any of my fellow ACEs, we get if no one talks to us!

Catch up with you soon


GW

Hi Ben,

Trying to remember people by their Researcher number is a real pain... not really; a real pain is being whacked in the face by a rake or bitten by a bulldog. But it's a bit inconvenient... yes, it fits nicely into a spectrum of things that are not convenient... like living a long way from the chemist's...

Anyway, it's a simple thing to attach a more descriptive moniker to your h2g2 identity by clicking your 'preferences' and choosing a nickname. You may very well already know all this; and, for reasons of your own, have chosen not to. But it does make life a bit less confusing (like the Washington DC subway system) for the rest of us.

JTG

I see your point about the number thing. However, I enjoy the fact that whatever/whoever gave me the number looked deep inside my heart and soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined. I'd like to hold onto it, if it's all the same to you. Besides how many other people don't give themselves nicknames? I thought I'd be in the minority.

a lot of people keep the user number - I now mine off by heart anyhow 113478 - and I think it's good that people set some store by it.

Picking a name for yourself is of course absolutly your own perogative - how then should we adddress you, Researcher 180970?

Clive

Loudly if there's in the offing?

Quite right too. If it's a matter of self-expression... I'll drink to that.

I only brought it up in case there was a question of not knowing how to change it involved. As there isn't...

JTG

Hi there. I was wondering, why does the Infinite Improbability Drive keep sending me to the same page unless I delete my temporary internet files? It's kind of a pain in the butt.
Also, how would I go about putting an article under the Restaurants section?
And is there a section that's just for drinking establishments?
I ask because I've found a place that I think really deserves a write-up.

Thanks for your time.

Oooooh crikey, I'm not too sure, hang about a bit & I'll get a scout and a guru over to help

Hi Researcher 180970

Try changing your browser preferences. It's hard to give advice without knowing what browser you're using. You need to look for the cache settings and make them update "Always". Mine are in Web Browser >> Advanced.

To get your restaurant review into the Edited Guide and hence into the categorisation system, just write your article and submit it to Peer Review using the button provided on the <./>UserEdit</.> page.

Read the rules first. See PeerReview.

And try to read some of the more recent Edited Guide Entries in the restaurant genre. (Higher A numbers are generally more recent).



Amy the (Guru) Ant

Hang on, ignore that first bit - the button is on the Guide Entry page that you will see after you have submitted you words via the User Edit page.

Silly me.

It was years ago that the button was on the edit page. Before peer review even existed. "Submit for Rejection", my that brings it all back.