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

Under no circumstances will I be posting any further journal updates until the move from the BBC is complete. Most of you subscribed to my journal know how to get in touch offline. Please feel free. I'll see you around in the meanwhile.

that was weird! I've sent you a message - in the meantime have a


*throws at the system*

Thanks, Lanza. I've C&P-ed the journal entry from the moderation email to a reply to your message (and forwarded via email to a few others).

I've emailed the eds and the mods, so we'll see what they say, but that was very .

But s are always nice, and appreciated. And reciprocated!!

I'm not flouncing or anything... just not going to waste any more free time with such a goofy moderation system intact. Will continue to reply to existing stuff but take a break from new journals.

I'm both and . I'd like to throw a and some ,

I log on for the first time in who knows how long and this is at the top of my convo list. Love it

Technical issues aside, I hope you're doing PC

I *do* so hate it when things happen after I've gone to bed

Keep watching PC, it won't be for much longer

lil x

Gosh, I miss all the fun. See you on email!

I'll be following Ask and everyone's journals, just not putting the effort into starting any new ones of my own, until we're set up with the new teams.

Sent an email to the mods, and the eds, to ask what could possibly have offended anyone in that post, and haven't yet been extended the courtesy of a reply. Not that I'd edit it, just that it'd be nice to know what the issue was. Morbid curiosity, really.

In times gone by, I had posts and journals go for the same reasons. None that apply, and even following procedures for queries, never got an answer. I haven't triple-proof-read yours for any single key word, but by content I saw nada wrong with it.

Someone has been kind enough to suggest a couple of things that, while innocuous to reasonable people, might set off someone with a hair trigger.

I'm not going to fret about it- at the end of the day, it's just a web site (and my ramblings aren't all that interesting anyway ).

Looking forward to the big move even more now, though.

The idea of treating animals humanely and not eating them is the only aspect that I could find that might even border on that. And such a reason would be just silly! I eat many previously alive critters, but would personally never consider drowing live things in my belly acids (read as oysters and the like)

It's all so very arbitrary at the moment.

As an aside, I actually know a couple of vegetarians who allow themselves oysters because they don't have nervous systems. I guess everyone has their lines in the sand. I draw mine at any sort of exploitation. But the thing is that I didn't mention it to spark debate about the topic- just a couple quick sentences about how pleased I am that zoos which participate in conservation programs have even been able to reintroduce species which were extinct in the wild. That kind of thing.

What would be odd about that is that I've seen posts in h2g2 threads that reference organizations which actually advocate *for* violence and cruelty toward animals, and mindless killing of them, and none of those posts have broken any rules, so I'm sure it's not that.

I'm not going to get all worked up about one removed journal, though. I have enough going on today to aggravate me, as it is.

There is absolutely no telling what's happening these days with moderation. I'm sorry it is frustrating. ?

*slurps tea*

I'm not as frustrated as I might sound in type. It's irritating, but not the end of the world.

Since I'm (as usual) off-and-on, I was not aware of the original journal post that seems to have caused this, but wanted to share my sympathy nonetheless.

No worries, she was just slagging off every foreign person outside of her piece of the US of A.

'hee hee'

(Actually PC was not, she was simply on about temps and things local, and some of the fine times out they got during breaks in the heat)

Yeah, and I used a horribly offensive euphemism for the word "poo", so the entire post was removed.

It's not worth the effort of reposting, as it really was just a ramble about playing outdoors and stuff, nothing terribly enlightening.

I'll resume posting journals from the new site for sure, in the meantime I'll just comment on everyone else's.

I told ya, never use that most offensive word for 'pooh', even friendly chat. It sours peoples and relations and cr@p.