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

Seven card w***stain? What's that?

Do they mean work, I wonder... (I'm really not sure, what does it mean?)

Nice, Martin - as I recall, spook's error was in telling Hoo what he /should/ do, instead of telling him what he /though/ Hoo should do...

I agree, Hoo isn't doing this because someone forgot to say please. He's already said why he's doing it. I suggest we all just believe him and let him act as he sees fit.

Solaris just ate my return character, and tried to paste the clip board onto my document. Ambitious, isn't it?

- Jordan

There's a lot in what Hell has said, and Lucinda, too.

Time out?

Bored now...

Next world please, this one's no fun.

Reply to Hell, only:

"that attitude reminds me of Barton"

A few crucial differences.

1. Barton left the site altogether, then came back, then left altogether, then came back, then left altogether, because of something that happened to someone else.

I'm stopping writing Edited Guide entries because of something that happened to ME. Slight difference.

2. Barton loudly proclaimed the fact of his leaving, changed his screenname leading up to it to advertise the fact, and turned his personal space into a verbose explanation of why.

I've mentioned I'm stopping writing EG entries in the two Peer Review threads I had active at the time, and in this thread. I've not changed my screenname, and I've added one sentence you'd have to hunt for in my rather long and varied userspace.

3. Barton made contributions of a greater or lesser nature to precisely six Edited Entries originated by others, and never (to my knowledge) submitted a single entry of his own to Peer Review.

Compare and contrast A578388.

4. Barton repeatedly implied that the Guide would be a noticeably poorer place without contributions from him.

I have a realistic grasp of my importance here, i.e. none. You are absolutely correct, I'm quitting writing entries because I want to. I'm not shouting about it. In fact, I'd like people to drop it. I've *asked* people to drop it. I hope they do.

Oh, and a note on "pedestrian", since nobody else has bothered to explain it to you. In the opening chapter of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", it describes the Guide as supplanting the Encyclopedia Galactica, because "it scores over the older, more pedestrian work in two important respects. First, it is slightly cheaper..." and secondly, those famous words on the cover. "Pedestrian" in this context meaning not necessarily boring, but predictable, run-of-the-mill, *establishment*. The antithesis of what the Guide was about. OK?

I'm off for a nice cup of tea.

Thanks.

H.

Can I join you for that ? Hell, let's make it a .

Like I said, bored now, where's the next bit of amusement

Damn it, now I've got to try and think of a suitably daft entry to bung in PR. Oh no, *work*....

Just before I get completely bored of this conversation and finally leave this conversation, I would just add my final two pennies worth.

"I have a realistic grasp of my importance here, i.e. none"

You must know that you have a lot of importance, otherwise why are all these people so concerned? You have acknowledged that you are not the single best thing on this guide, but neither am I. I don't think there is a single best person/thing on this guide, other than the guide itself. Of which you are "an" important member. To coin a phrase : "Who wants to be just a cog in a machine? Depends on the machine!". Don't think for a moment that anyone thinks that you have no importance to this guide, because that is just daft.
You can still have a very significant role in this guide. I sincerely hope you haven't got another motive for this and are hiding behind this(as has been implied before).

Anyway you've made your decision, and have already told me to go away in the other thread, and so I will do.

Terran

>"Damn it, now I've got to try and think of a suitably daft entry to bung in PR"

y not just look at my entry about nothing A862797?

spook

Look, there's *nothing* to be gained from posting it here.

Thanks Hoo for explaining 'pedestrian'.

Just one note before I unsubscribe: I wasn't saying you are doing it exactly like Barton. I meant it more like: Your behaviour just *reminded* me of Barton. Indeed: BIG DIFFERENCE.

OK, so I am unsubscribing... See you around Hoovooloo.

HELL

One little point on something that Anna mentioned about scouts and newbies...

I would suspect, and I'm 99% sure that I _can_ speak for most scouts on this matter, that when a scout makes comments in Peer Review, one of the first things he does is look at the usernumber of the author... I don't think this sort of think could have happened with a newbie... When I'm dealing with a newbie I temper my remarks in such a way as to not scare them away from the site (or I try to anyway!).

With established researchers who know the ropes I tend not to worry so much about tip-toeing around and scaring people away... I would have hoped that I could say what I think...


whisky




Can we have a smiley

Excellent idea

In the meantime how about a row of

Could begin to look like a love in

But what is the seven card thing?

Spook - you can write like that, yet you post like that?

Oh well... I suppose it's a matter of taste.



- Jordan

I think its to do with an article someone has wrote. I think its in peer review. But I only saw a fleeting glimpse of it yesterday.

It's an entry in Peer Review.
I'd post a link, but people think I'm attention-seeking, so I'll be unhelpful instead...

-Lucinda (pondering how quickly an entry on Mark's Beard would get thrown out of Peer Review...)

Hell, more people know about his beard than 7CW!

I think this is finished now. So perhaps we should join the conga F21356?thread=220263&latest=1 .

A lot of b'log!

But regarding the 'authority' (or otherwise) of any of the volunteer groups - is there anything when newbies sign up that might 'warn' them about the volunteers? I know it'd be something else for them to read (or ignore), but it might help make it clearer where the authority really lies - ie with the 's.

There is a mention of a couple of volunteer groups on the <./>welcome</.> page. Although if people think it's an issue, it might be worth mentioning somewhere other than a PR thread, so that others can join in without taking this too far off-topic.

My apologies, I got dreadfully confused about what thread I was in, so ignore that bit about PR...

indeed...