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.

Here is the Welcome Message from DNA, the founder of the site: A157349

Things you should know before you start :
This is an open forum, so everything you post can be read 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 ) which includes the introduction on your Personal Space.
So why not read the Guide to Netiquette on h2g2 at A901838 before you put your foot in? You're much less likely to accidentally upset somebody if you're familiar with the site's Netiquette. To give you an impression of how you may feel if you posted before thinking, take a look here: A11284193
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.

For more tips and insight you can read these pages:

h2g2 in a nutshell: A8468742

Hints and Links: A719840

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

Bel

Cool Old Guy on his head
"Well hi there, is that not Bel (ana) Guess you remember me.

If you do not mind I will search for a more recent ACE message as yours is as out of date as I am .

Anyways belated thanks for the welcome"

Hi there. I had to go to your page in hope of finding out who you are.

I'm no longer on h2g2, I only came here today to look for one of Gnomon's entries.

So, if I understand it correctly, you were known here as TiT before?

Ah, I just found that page, and I see you posted only two weeks ago there.

Dear me, if that isn't a blast from the past, I don't know what is.

Since you said you'd like to take on your guru hat again, I take it you've found out how to post and read in the one and only skin (i.e. brunel)? I think that even guide ml still works in the old skins, but then I wouldn't know, I haven't written anything here for years.

Cool old Guy running at writing speed
"My personal space is (again) more an anachronical sequence of my activities rather then an actual introduction.

I thought _the_ problem with HooToo was not beeing known on the InterWeb as a social site anyhow.
On arriving at my accounts I sooner then expected found out not only the community has vanished they (the content provider) also released a Captcha to haunt any contributors.
Only later finding out there is no community (compared to any other 'social' site) as well we are only (exclusively) to post positive messages.

I am patiently waiting and studying for any sensible solution to my (and according to the state of community some more) situation regarding the house rules. Some of the aspects The Powers That Be did not appreciate can be found in reading between the lines in the announcements. However I can not read minds enough to comprehend all their actions. "

Traveller in Time sorry for the late reply (more then two hours!)
"Yes, it is me, sorry to hear you have departed

Well, you may notice my current stated of delayed postng .

That is also the mean reason not to post too frequently, I merely disrupt conversations instead of contributing to them. "

'mean reason' should be 'main reason'

What the hell is going on? Are you on premod, and if so, why?

I know why I'm no longer part of the remains of a formerly nice community.

Ah, so your posts have appeared now. Don't worry about posting here, as it's just you and me (and the mods) reading, you don't disrupt any conversation.

Hey, are you on any social network, like Twitter or facebook?

You can find me on twitter (although I'm not often there) as belanah2g2 (a moniker I very much regret now, but alas, it can't be changed).

Cool old Guy not worried about any posting
"Actually not about disrupting any conversation either, it is just my threshold to post getting raised. Any posting I make is to inform and or help. The latter beeing the domain of the Official Volunteers reduces near any posting to useless.

Anyways, I do not use any other 'SM' site , like 'in the old days' I have enough with this site (Though I noticed you have many {ex-}Researchers on your contacts ).

Well, perhaps one day this site will live again. As long as you and the rest of the crowd keep an eye on the site there is still some hope. See you on the 'whosonline', not beeing the < <./>online</.> >.

Not unlike in the old days, I still learn every day something new. I just have to restrain my curiousity to self imposed observation for now. "

I'm not exactly keeping an eye on the site, it happens very seldom that I come here. There are other websites which offer interesting content, so I'm volunteering there.

As for the friends list: I honestly have no idea, who is still here and who has left. I think a lot have left.

Cool old Guy done a short survey of other sites
"I was not referring to a friends list

Anyway, thanks very much for dropping by .
Oh yes, also thanks for keeping the post delivery service running quite some time (sidenote; there is a new one up just a few hours ago <glue&gt"

Oh, *that* list. That's even more confusing than the list here.

That isn't a site with interesting content, though. Only very occasionally.

I had totally forgotten about delievry service. In fact, I wouldn't even know where to find it now.

I already had a peek at the latest , seeing as I was here anyway.