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

Hello again everybody. It's nice to be out as the stereophonics once said. If I am allowed here is my opinion on the whole BBC/h2g2 situation. First the good hopefully the servers and software is now more up to the task of a large community and we will never see slow refeshes and multiple postings ever agian. I would be very happy If this is the case.

That is unfortunately the end of the good and on to the bad.

my whole point is "Are we going to be censored". "House Rules" is, in my opinion, just a kind way of saying "restrictions". It's a well known fact that as one of the most respectable media corporation in the world, the BBC has an image to uphold. I'm not too sure why they took this on in that respect, as it is a bit of a risk. When h2g2 was an independent site the rules seemed a lot more flexable, the policing standard have to be witnessed first, but I reckon it would be a lot lot less strick old old-skool h2g2. I'm not saying they did a bad job before, but what I am saying they concentrated on what mattered, THE ACTUAL QUALITY OF THE CONTENT. I fear that with the BBC as the paymasters, because of their image, the beeb may want the editors not to focus on what is said but how it is said. For an example if a racist was on h2g2 (I realise that the same wouldn't have happened on the old h2g2, this is strickly illustration only)
and decided to air their views, would you rather not see it, or take in what has been said, formulate your own opinion on the matter and and address the person in a reasonable manner. The example is a tad extreme I admit, but people in an online community need to have there minds as free as possible (how 1960's is that), to encourage freedom of choice, expression, and speech.

In conclusion: Will the beeb force the quality of the community down just to keep it's image, or will it let the community grow into the most vibrent discussion and inormation tool on the web. I hope it is the latter, i'm sure Sir DNA (the Knighthoods in the post) had that in mind when he first tought about this idea.

I'm not normally like this by the way, bit too geeky to be a revolutionist.

I apologise for any spelling mistakes, I don't do much writing any more.

One last point did anyone notice how quick the beeb were to distance themselves from the temporary discussion forum. Like I said Why Have they done this?

cheers for listening (sounds cooler than reading)