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

That wasn't a threat... if it was a threat, I'd have waited before sending the e-mail. I actually genuinely want to know what the ptbs think... then in future I'll know whether to keep my mouth shut on similar occasions, saving several people a lot of hassle.

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Well I just sent a suicide note to Peta. She's cautioned me about stuff like this before. Though last time it was much more serious. I was getting boxed into a corner by people having a go at me...whaddya think I'm gonna do?
Today's email from her was about my signature, in the emails I was sending. Marilyn Manson lyrics.

C u in a week's time

Re-read the page, re-read what you've said, and I've decided you can all take a running jump. Uncancelled the page, you lot and stop interfering with my work.
Go on, snitch if makes ya feel better, you totally got the wrong end of the stick.

I mean, I take off anything 'mean', so that you'd end up distinguishing between the ones I liked and the ones that were just plain unacceptable, and then you lot start saying that -I'm- saying that -all- of them are crap. Well, f**k you.

Oh, come off it, this isn't highschool. Insults and talk about 'snitching' are not likely to gain you support, I'm afraid.

You're right, you were never actually saying that all the entries you rejected were useless. On the other hand, if I saw one of *my* entries on the same page as the phrase 'who the f**k wrote this s**t', I'd be somewhat upset. Feel free to express yourself in any way you see fit on your own pages; but when it comes to your official dealing as a subeditor, some sort of civility would seem to be a reasonable expectation.

As to 'you can all take a running jump' - I think I already said that there's no reason for you to listen to me prattling on about something which really doesn't concern me. You ain't working for me, and this isn't my site. On the other hand, you *are* working for the guys at h2g2-towers, and it *is* their site. Which is why it's up to them to decide whether this is a problem.

If you have a problem with me getting them involved in this, then it's obviously because you think they won't approve... and if you think they won't approve, why have you got this page in the first place?

Anyway. There isn't much point in this argument continuing, so I'll shut up now.

Pleased to have met you, Mike A... shame it couldn't've been under more pleasant circumstances...

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Not a good way for first impressions, is it?

And I'll tell you again, I got this page up because:

1. I'm curious as to who wrote the stuff I've rejected/accepted
2. It gives me an opportunity to find people to add to my 'Massive list of researchers'.
3. I had -hoped- for people to turn up and compare notes with my rejection slip and see if it was justified.

Seeing as three people have come and mis-interpreted this page, I figure that the PTB are probably gonna get the wrong end of the stick too. And if they do, then frankly I'm in the shitter!
But I refuse to get rid of this page because that means you've bullied me into getting rid of it. Guess this is where 'personal honour' comres into it. Maybe that's stupid...
This page has proved dead handy for checking out the articles from my latest batch, and sorting out stuff like links and things. So this has got some real use in it, it's not just a weapon.

btw I took down anything that could be connected to the articles.

Nod, there's nothing wrong with any of those reasons... *shrug* it was just the introduction on the last version of the page, which, as you've pointed out, is gone. So you're probably safe

I usually add 'if you'd like further feedback, please e-mail [email protected]' to the end of my rejection slips... nobody has, yet, which leaves me to conclude only that either my rejection slips are so perfectly-formed that nobody's wanted to complain, or my address is edited out of the final rejection mail.

Having just had a look at my next batch, and seen an entire article without any punctuation at all, I'd have to say I agree with some of your original sentiments. *peers around nervously* But you won't catch me saying that out loud...

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Bit of a firebrand, I is. Not afraid to admit it

Now, the mail thing's actually a good idea. But seeing as I got this page up, I'll keep it up. No point giving them an opportunity to post some viruses when I got this now is there

Anyway, I'm feeling better now, I think I'll take down the song I put up there...

Mike, I hate to see a page like this. Its a good intention page on your part, and I know you're going to take this the wrong way and be mad at me, and I'm not aiming for that at all...
But its almost impossible to take this page in a positive light. Perhaps if you changed the spiel at the beginning it would seem a bit friendlier... atm it seems a little blunt. You could briefly say that you didn't reject all these out of spite... Do you have an "Approved by Mike A" page too, for balance? I know you'll say that if people take this page the wrong way its their problem, but I firmly believe that when people are upset by something, whether its their own fault or not if I caused it in some sense I should try to undo it.

Have you considered *asking* the researchers involved whether they would like to be included on a page like this so that other researchers can look at their work and offer suggestions to help them resubmit and get approval?

Jesus, everyone's got better ideas then me!

I had actually thought about changing the title. But, uh, I wasn't feeling imagintive. And I've got this f***ing annoying thing which, whenever I type in something beginning with, say, P, it gives me a little box of things I've written beforehand that started with P.
Pretty lame excuse, really? Well, swearing at people is more fun than seeing a box with all my life's work pop up. Beside's it's just half the excuse.

Accepted articles go up on my homepage. I'd have thought people would see them before this.
How does this work out? I post one link in a forum to this page, and I get half a dozen people giving me guilt trips. Yet I post in a few hundred forums, with a link to my homepage in each one, and nobody finds the list of accepted articles!! I could write F**K OFF in twelve foot high letters and nobody would notice!
Ok, sarcasm, don't hurt me

You see, I've moaned beforehand that fact that the people who submit stuff never seem to be on h2g2 any more. It's a pain when I'd like to correspond with them with their article/s. Guess I could just takes down the 'rejected' links once I've done with them...but again, that just seems to be me giving in to you lot bullying me into submission.

Well, god, it's getting late, and I've got a whole night to mull ideas over. By that time how many people will have leapt onto the bandwagon? Time will tell...

I'm sorry Mike, I must've skim read your homepage loads of times.... and now I see it, and remember reading it before.
People only pretend to read homepages. I admit I'm one of them. I should know better because other people have done the same to me...
*looks ~very guilty~*

But what does the page title now mean? I'm sorry I never studied German

I like looking at other peoples homepages, you often find rather interesting things. I just found an entry on alcopops by this person who's posted in the American Pie forum. I liked it...

Ok, "vergeltungswaffe" means "retaliation". Well, there's this thing in this magazine about V-2 rockets (man were they cool, how come we never here about them any more? I think I'll go write an enry on them...), and German is just such a cool language...
Well, it was either this or She Walks Like A Bearded Rainbow. And that's the title of my homepage...

Thanks for transalating.

Noticed the stars on your page...wasn't that something being discussed on the ACEs list a few days back?

Yes, someone wanted some... did you like them?

I thought they were goddamn neat! Must be bloody hard to code...
I'd been looking out for some mouse chasers, something along the lines of small skulls. But I saw the code and seeing as my edit page is crampt enough as it is, I think they can wait

I tackle the hard to code bit by using cut'n'paste javascript. Less stress... 'cept you need to use tags to prevent the guideml parser causing hell with it...
I put comments into the source of mine to make it easier to find the bits to edit... the edit window scares me no longer since I cut'n'paste into a text or HTML editor...
A skull chaser would be cool.

Oh yeah, cut&pasting, but I thought you'd done that flower thing yourself. Either way, it'd be hard for anyone to do!

Comments in source? Editors? Ok, I lose the plot now *^_^*

Hey, do you know how I can change the colour of my homepage's background? I'd like mine to be black.

What I mean about comments is, if you view the source for my page you get
<!------------------ Some section ------------------>
comments which just help me find where on the page I'm editing. So all my page is in sections.
But I usually use a html editor to make changes to my page... I cut the code out of the edit window, and paste it into Microsoft Developement environment, and then cut'n'paste the changed version back. I find it easier to edit that way... although sometimes it changes my code for me when I don't want it to...
I made all the stars myself, though.

I think that if you change your tag to you'll get some of the page to come out black... although not all of it, not the bit around the goo.

Ok, thanks for clarifying

And, at the end of the page, it would be . Ok, I'll try that. Thanx

No, I thing you have the tag as normal at the end... one does in normal html...