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

I heard of this through all that A.C.E. stuff that changed into sub stuff, but I'll post you a welcome message anyway, seeing as you seem to be so intrigued by them.

Hello there and welcome to h2g2!

I've come to see your page because I'm an A.C.E. here at h2g2 - A.C.E.s are people who have nothing better to do with their time than zonk around greeting and welcoming other people.

If you want to make the smileys in messages - like - go here http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/Smiley

Here is a page of useful links to get you started: http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/A537932

Niwt

Aww - so nice of you. Is the welcome message a copy-n-paste or do you customise it? I'm interested to know...

Whoami? once known as dodgem(tm)

I copy and paste it but tend to modify it for different people. If they don't have a nickname I tell them how they can change their default number. If they already know how to use smileys I don't bother to tell them how. If they already know GuideML I mention that they seem to be doing lots already. If they've written about something on their page I'm interested in, I might mention that.

Seems fair enough - I use a similar scheme if I'm on Aceing runs of lots of people, but I don' use the same message for different sessions.

Exactly right - I only usually use the automatic ones if I'm doing lots of people on the welcome block.

Yep. That's one of the h2g2 greats - you're imprtant when you sign up.