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

Hello there! Welcome to h2g2!

I see you've dived right in at the deep end with a theological discussion. You're a braver person than I was when joined h2g2.

Anyway, I'm an ACE (Assistant Community Editor), which means that my job is to scour h2g2 for new researchers and welcome them, say hello, offer a cup of (or sometimes an ) and generally be helpful around the site.



To help you get started, here are a few links that I find constantly useful:

Here's a page that a fellow ACE, Rocket Man, made to help newbies around the site, it's great, sometimes I use it , click here => A725500

The h2g2 welcome page is at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/Welcome

In my opinion, the most fun part of h2g2 is "Ask the h2g2 Community". It's a conversation forum that invites you to ask any question you can possibly think of, and fellow researchers will try to answer. You can start debates you can even try to answer some of the perplexing questions that our downright smart and good-looking researchers are wringing their hands over. It's here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A148907

Something along a similar vein, but less popular, but also less hectic is the "How Do I..." forum: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/HowDoI

The "Don't Panic! Help Centre" is at http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/DontPanic if you get seriously stuck.



I hope you enjoy yourself here at h2g2, it's a great community. If you have any questions about the site don't hesitate to ask. You can drop me a line here, or go over to my user space (by clicking on my name) and grabbing me there.

Good luck

Ste

If you click on 'Who's Online' you can see the researchers names, clicking any of these will take you to their 'Space' where you can see what they have contributed to H2G2. There is no restriction to looking at researchers 'Spaces' and you can do so at any time (even if they are not on line). Feel free to join in any thread.

If you want to see how a page is constructed, replace the 'U' in front of the researcher number with 'testuserspace' e.g. U172782 becomes testuserspace172782 (on the address bar).
For entries just replace the 'A' with test e.g. test712595.
You can click on anything underlined and if you click on a smiley you will be instantly transported to the smiley page where you will see all the smileys you can use. Some of the smileys on my page are links, so clicking on them will show you some of my contributions to h2g2. I use classic goo (the original colour of the h2g2 site before the beeb took over)
BTW The Tower of Magic link on your site is dead.

Alji, of the Red Dragon (Swynwr y Ddraig Goch) (conducting a sun sign poll @ A712595)(Member of The H2G2 Guild of Wizards @ U197895 looking for wiz kids to join, though you don't have to be a wiz kid just know a bit about some subject that you think will be of interest to others or just bore the pants off them. This is an equal opportunities space open to all sexes, ages and abilities)

Are you stalking me Alji?



Ste

I came here from the thread!

Alji (Member of The Guild of Wizards @ U197895)

As in *the* thread?

BTW have you seen my researcher lists @ A788448

Alji (Member of The Guild of Wizards @ U197895)

Ooo, that could be useful for ACEs. Thanks.



Ste

Hey thanks for the welcome!

It's my pleasure.

How are you getting along? What interesting stuff have you found?



Ste

Let's have some and whil we're here!

Alji (Member of The Guild of Wizards @ U197895)

Well, I'm afraid I haven't gotten very far. My time on the computer is limited with my school and work schedule right now. But I have a weekend coming up so I'll be exploring then.

Great! If you get a little stuck you can try asking me or Alji here. I will be a little busy studying for an exam that will get me into graduate schools (I hope) so I won't be around much this weekend. I'll try and pop by to see how thing's are going.

Have fun!




Ste

Oops I made a boo boo!
You need to type 'testuserpage', not 'testuserspace'. So the URL you'll need to test Rocket Man's user page (for example) is -

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/testuserpage177704

Alji (Member of The Guild of Wizards @ U197895)