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

Hello and welcome to the wonderful community of h2g2 , also called 'hootoo '
I am your <./>ACE</.> and have come to meet you and to greet you and to help you with your first steps on this site.
First things first :
, there's always somebody near to help you with whatever your problem might be. For example you can reply to this message and/or ask me a question by simply pressing the reply button. Or you can click on the name above this message, which will bring you directly to my Personal Space ( recommended ), where you can leave a message for me.

Feisor has set up a wonderful page with hints and links, so please, go and explore them here:<./>A719840 </.>

Things you should know before you start :
This is an open forum, so everything you post can be seen by everybody else, and you cannot delete it, nor can you correct it once it is sent. This is where the 'preview' button below your answering box comes in handy
The only thing you can edit or delete, is any guide entry you create,( go here for more info : <./>A53209</.&gt which includes the introduction on your Personal Space.
If you reply to this message and tell me a bit about your interests, I can most certainly point you directly to the best places to go.
This is where I would explain a few site-specific things, but my friend said it was too long, so I'll wait until you ask

Take your time, have a look around the site, and enjoy yourself
P.S. I'm certainly prone to have forgotten something vital to you, so please don't be shy, hit the reply button below this message

Bel

Awesome. Well, that says something about the openness (sp?) of the community... I'll remember that. Or try. Most likely, I'll end up forgetting, but hopefully not.

Hello Mekryd,
and about the delay in replying. We've had quite a few server problems recently, so this was never shown in my conversationlist
You'll get used to how things work here fairly qick, I'd guess.
Just remember - any questions, I or somebody else will be here for you.

Bel

Oh -and don't worry about spelling too much - typos happen all the time , see: quick, and I even think it should be quickly

Ah, well, I used to be a bit of a jerk when it came to the more obvious sorts of spelling/basic grammar. Now that's sort of reduced to just being anal towards me. My own mistakes bother me more than those of others, which don't bother me much at all anymore. I also tend to ramble... a lot. Yeah. >_>;

Dear me, i missed this again And now, I'm on my way to bed, but I'll look for any reply tomorrow-or rather later today
To be honest, I always get annoyed with myself when i make mistakes, but it happens, eh ? And I guess I know how you feel about spelling and grammar - it hurts me to see that my own sons can't spell Not much I could do about it, though.
talk later

Bel

Heh, sons? Ah, that makes me feel a bit too young, eh?

Ah, the time matters not. Trial and error always seemed like an effective learning method for me. Unless error means pain or death. Then... yeah. >_>;

Makes you feel too young for what ? I have two sons, yes, and depending on your age I actually may seem 'old', but I am not really old -not yet
I've seen you've plunged into entry writing already Well done, I'll go and read them later.

I posted this in the journal entry, too, but it didn't show up on your list, or at least I don't think it did, so...:

Okay, I've actually come across two questions that would probably be best answered before I find out in a bad way. Or rather, one of them is urgent, and another is one I haven't found out yet.

Where does the name "HooToo" come from?

And:

What happens if you want to send in several entries that hold references to each other for editing? Like the entries I have on my personal space right now (excluding the "Your Mom Jokes" article), for example. They're all related, and hold links to each other. How would this fit into the 'link only to editted entries' thing, if I plan to get them all editted eventually?

There was another thing as I went to re-post this, but short term memory loss slapped me, hard.

I clicked the reply button, and suddenly remembered.

Yeah, being 16 (Young/very young for a Junior), kids seem a bit far off. Of course, my perspectives on time are skewed, as are my abilities to perceive distance, weight, height, and age.

Hello Mekryd,

you don't link to unedited entries, it's against the writing guidelines. I see that you want to, but the reason is: an unedited entry can still be changes by the author, or even be deleted, which would break the link. So every edited entry can only be linked to other edited entries, or to stabile external websites. In case your entry gets edited, and the entry you want to link to gets edited later, you can pop over to the feedback forum and ask the curators to link them then.
'Hootoo' is only the short form for saying *aitch two(too)*, so sort of nickname for the site, really.
Hope this helps

Bel

Oh, and my memory isn't any better than yours: we have The Young Researchers' Club A983171 - it's certainly worth having a look

Alrighty! So... *begins to work out how to go about things*

An 'aitch'? Eh?

Awww, don't tell me you don't 'know your aitches' ( to say it with George Orwell) ?

http://www.onelook.com/?w=aitch&ls=a

Oooh... I've never seen anyone spell out the sounds like that. >_>; Except in someone comparing 'zen' and 'zee'.

Oh, you'll come across lots of things you've never seen before if you are around the site