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

Hey, HoopyFrood . I got PRODded too. The UG group posting's done now Jodan.

You all think and type faster than me, and when I was reading through threads I kept finding things I wanted to say, already said.

I've caught up with them all now. There's interesting stuff.

That's it for tonight though.

Excellent
If we get a PROD page up and running with all our names on it (I don't care who does it, on what account or on what page as long as it's maintained), I can begin to formally try to recruit other people who may agree with us.

I don't have time to do it just now (going to bed, and unlike Waz, when I say I'm going to bed, I go to bed within 5 minutes ), and I might be able to do it tomorrow, but you never know. Any eager beavers willing to take some work off my hands would be more than welcome

trust me to muck up me email address. it's pan_galactic_hoopy_frood AT blah blah di blah.

Hope I haven't stuck my proverbial in in regards to shooting my mouth off.

HF

Jodan,

Is this the thread you mentioned? I'll try to read though it when I finish paining my house this evening...FF

Sounds interesting...'paining' your house? Does it involve needles and various other medieval torture devices? Or is it revenge for loose skirting boards, carpet burn and scalding hot water from the shower when someone flushes the loo?
HF

I'm looking around for a missing T on the floor.

Don't knock it over, T's a to get out of carpet...

I walked right into innocently expressing my opinion that the "engine" was a good piece of writing based of real facts creatively expressed.

The offering gave the feeling that the engine was firmly bolted down in time and space and transparent people and cataclysmic events had come "unstruck in time" and were randomly floating about it and being effected by some strange force that it generated.

I had no idea that the engine was intended as an anarchist bomb. The article seems to have stirred up a nest of some sort.

Hey y'all.
Everyone who I'm fairly sure is ready to be recognized as being part of the PROD cause is listed at A4067282 (in extremely rudimentary GML). FF, would you like to be mentioned?

Y'all (except Hoopy Frood and FF - they came after this email) should have an email with the details of how to get in this account. Please do change it around and make yourselves at home, even if (shudder) that means putting it into Brunel

We need a main page for membership purposes, I think. Anyone volunteer to do that?
Please?

Jodan in disguise

Formerly Fred would be proud to serve in a good cause once again. I'll e-mail my address later.

Kampai. Banzai!

Terrific
You and Hoopy Frood will get the access details at the same time in email form, then

I'm sure that there are more elegant ways to link these examples of blunt mistreatment new members who appear to be lost in cyberspace: Peer Review Thread: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/F2075122?thread=625923 Subsequent Discussion: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/F50307?thread=625959&skip=0&show=20 Peer Review Thread: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/F2095176?thread=635011 Subsequent Discussion: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/F1868269?thread=631099

Hi All

Very remiss of me not to be here sooner, to welcome all these new faces to the Pier.

We haven't had so many visitors since...well...ever, really.

Yeah, the place doesn't look too good in daylight. Don't worry, there's only about five months of it left.

The white stuff is ice, right. If you're the kind of person who likes to get his bearings (Hi Fred!), assuming you're facing south is always a good bet.

I would have liked you to meet Speak, Alberta, Orchid and Roofle, but none of them are here at the moment. Maybe later. And, yeah, OK, the bit about me actually wanting you to meet them was kind of incorrect, sort of.

Clooter, anyone?

(Careful with that. There's only this one to go round everybody)

Roofle?

Limpet. Incoherent. Inebriate. Used a projectile weapon, mostly.

Though I did hear that he's seeking election as General Secretary of the National Union of Smilies

J, not sure I can put as much time in to PROD as I'd like to at the mo, but still more than happy to help out 'fighting the good fight' as such, but I think I can contribute better by pushing things about in PR and in the AWW and WW for the UnderGuide. to let the side down just pushing myself a bit much I think. I was angry about things on hootto and I think PROD came along at the right time so I jumped on the proverbial. Think I'm best scooting alongside that proverbial in me only little red wagon for the time being. If I can contribute more time in the future will let the PROD Team know.
Frood.

oops, Pin then. Pass it on

The tone of responses in peer review has changed a lot (become more welcoming, guiding and friendly) for some reason in the past few days. That was really my only issue. The civility "problem" I was perceiving, and that I documented to some extent on a previous post, seems to be corrected for now. People are falling over backwards to be helpful to inappropriate peer review submissions and working bring them into the fold. The "fold" itself seems somewhat larger as well.

Quality writing can be experienced and is obvious but cannot defined (Phadreus-Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance). However this site should be from each according to their ability (within limits)...More obvious is that what is interesting depends on ones interests. Recipes, Computer game reviews and pop song deconstructions apparently have an audience. But I unsubscribe to these without reading.

The site "peers" seem to have stopped bluntly running people off and are offering good suggestions for the least common denominator which can only result eventually in a more vigourous and inclusive offerings.

I would like to offer one suggestion...the peer review comments are often as amusing, interesting and infomative as the articles...could these threads be preserved when an article is selected for the edited guide?

My advice from Viet Nam...declare a victory and go home.


- Currently Facing South but Wondering Why?

<cheers? Okole maluna!