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Laura Started conversation Feb 3, 2004
Five thousand years is a long time to spend on the same planet, or do you go somewhere nice for your holidays?
Hello and welcome to the huge site that is h2g2. I'm Unc, one of the <./>ACE</.>s.
To get you started, the <./>DontPanic-tour</.> is very useful . Feisor has also written a list of hints and links for new researchers which you can read at A719840.
Learn how to use these smileys at the <./>Smiley</.> page
A few places to go...
<./>Askh2g2</.> to ask a question to the h2g2 community
<./>Miscchat</.> for more general chat
A630019 is a list of clubs and societies
A1123354 to learn how to brighten up your user page
A1041625 for some word games and chatter
Read <./>thepost</.>, h2g2's very own newspaper to find out what's happening on site
If you want to help write the Guide, then try <./>contribute</.>
Need any help or simply want to chat, just reply to this message and I'll get back to you.
and ,
Unc
Hello and welcome to the huge site that is h2g2. I'm Unc, one of the <./>ACE</.>s.
To get you started, the <./>DontPanic-tour</.> is very useful . Feisor has also written a list of hints and links for new researchers which you can read at A719840.
Learn how to use these smileys at the <./>Smiley</.> page
A few places to go...
<./>Askh2g2</.> to ask a question to the h2g2 community
<./>Miscchat</.> for more general chat
A630019 is a list of clubs and societies
A1123354 to learn how to brighten up your user page
A1041625 for some word games and chatter
Read <./>thepost</.>, h2g2's very own newspaper to find out what's happening on site
If you want to help write the Guide, then try <./>contribute</.>
Need any help or simply want to chat, just reply to this message and I'll get back to you.
and ,
Unc
Mok, you've been ACE'd
MoktheMagicMan Posted Feb 4, 2004
Thanks for the welcome.
And yes, five thousand years is a very long time to spend on any planet, especially one as dull as Earth. However, this thing you call the internet is very interesting to me, and this site you call H2G2 is the first sign of intelligence I have found on it.
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Laura Posted Feb 4, 2004
It has some interesting features, though admittedly I've only been stuck here for the last twenty years.
The internet is almost a world in its own. I don't think h2g2 can be classified all that intelligent. For example, h2g2 is generally 'shortened' to hootoo.
Hootoo?
MoktheMagicMan Posted Feb 5, 2004
Well, be that as it may, at least this site provides a forum where an intelligent being can provide his or her insights to those less fortunate.
A few things I would change here:
1.Writing in guidehl(I think that is what it is called) is very intimidating to the novice. There has to be an easier way to import pictures and change the look and color of the text.
2.While I like that you emphasize real information on this site, I think that it would be more fun if you allowed so called 'silly' entries to have their own section. Life the Universe and Everthing may cover a lot of ground, but I would add another section (maybe called Milliways, or perhaps simply 42) that would allow humorous entries to be given the same priviledges as the serious ones. Believe me, after being stuck here for five thousand years I could use a good laugh. I realize I can search for these entries with the search engine provided, but it seems somewhat cumbersome and not as organized as the main part of the guide.
3.I would like to be able to find out how many researchers there are and how many guide entries there are in the book. There should be a page that displays this kind of information.
These are not complaints. These are just things that I would like to see. I find it amazing that a site like this even exists and I'm glad I found it...
Hootoo?
Laura Posted Feb 5, 2004
Just breif answersw, am off out for a bit so will give the proper links later.
1. Guide ML isn't all that hard to use. You can't use your own pictures, only those in the picture library. It looks confusing but there are ways of cheating. For example, you can change the skin you use to Brunel. Go to <./>preferences</.> and select brunel. Using this skin gives you a load of shortcuts for the Guide ML coding.
2. There are two main types of reviewed entries in the Guide. There's the Edited Guide (normally shortened to EG) which contains over 5000 factual entries. Then there's the Under Guide (or UG) which contains fiction, comedy and the such like. The UG hasn't been up and running for all that long ( a few months) so isn't all that big yet. Go to the <./>frontpage</.> and you'll see todays UG entries.
3. Such a page already exists but just to warn you it takes a while to load. <./>info</.>
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