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

Doin't be Mina. Of course you're not unwelcome here. You are merely voicing your opinion, which you're entitled to, and it's generating some discussion

Come on, Mina, don't feel like a stranger. Your comments are as welcome as everbody else's comments.
I see your point about pushing the community - it didn't occur to me that this is what it may be meant to do.

Like many others, I had my PS linked to from the PS - twice even, so I was fully aware that newbies might stumble across my conversations, and it is something I'm aware they may do anyway, because I'm an Ace.
But this current list on the FP seems so ridiculous, cause it isn't updated - so what is the point? It does *not* reflect what is really popular and new, so why bother in the first place?

*It does *not* reflect what is really popular and new*

That point hits the nail on the head for me. If it constantly updated like the previous one did, even if only every 24 hours its better than clicking on a link to a convo to find no-one has posted to it for a week or more. That's pointless.
As for the privacy thing, well, we all know in HooToo there is no such thing, just respect for peoples one to ones.

Yes, we all no that. I deliberately point it out in my Ace welcome message, as well as pointing out that there's no possibility to edit any post you've made.

Make that 'no' a 'know'.
No editing of posts.

Do you think we should warn newbies about lilitis and it's spread through the threads?

WEll, you could put a disclaimer on your PS

What and risk the PY turning up and ing my PS..


Ooops.. Topic drift. Sorry..

*slaps hands*

Oi!

*Puts Ace hat on*

There is no such thing - err- persona as the PY.

Sowwy..


*watches a mysterious shadow sneaking out of the thread*

I have no problem with people complaining the thing doesn't work - it just seemed that everyone was complaining they didn't like it because it was intrusive into their private conversations.

I have often 'browsed' through people's message centres and I can easily see that there are threads that it would be better if I didn't join in with, but I can't see it being the end of the world if someone DID post in there 'by accident'. If it does feel like that to some people, then frankly they are in the wrong place.

I understand about protecting children - my son is only allowed on instant messenger to talk to relatives and so he can talk to me from any computer. He does not have his own password, only adults can sign him in, and he doesn't hold the password to his email address either. But that doesn't mean I can't have those things on my pc.

This culture of h2g2 demanding its 'privacy' has begun to make people feel uneasy about reading message centres as if they are doing something they shouldn't, and the feeling that anyone new to a thread shouldn't join in but start 'their own' thread is something that I think hurts h2g2, which is supposedly fostering a feeling of collaboration.

Hands up who honestly hasn't spent a good hour reading "private" conversations on people's Personal Spaces?

Most of my conversations have had others joining them at some point, but leaving again later. But then there is one person who deliberately disrupted nearly every conversation I had with somebody else (as well as numerous other conversations all over hootoo), pointing out that it was shown on the info page, as if that was carte blanche to ignore netiquette. Now just imagine how somebody of this disposure must feel if he finds these conversations on the FP even - and not just for a day until the list is updated (which it used to be in its previous incarnation), but for days on end. Must be their highlight, I guess. I have joined threads which included keywords like 'birthday', congratulations' or such, because it would seem silly to start a new thread with the same title, for the same purpose. However, I am not much of a lurker, which is probably why I choose to pretend that nobody else is, either - but knowing my conversation is on the FP for so long makes it so much more difficult to ignore it - if <ou know what I mean. Maybe it's silly, but I can happily ignore the fact that other read my conversations as long as they don't actually post in there.

Oh! The very same person who flounced out because others did similar to his threads?

Don't know about his threads, to be honest.

I remember having to point out, that there are no private threads in Hootoo..

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What's going on here? Anybody knows?

Not guilty


*looks at the floating shadow again*

Not guilty! I've only just got here...