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

Hello and welcome to h2g2 , also called 'hootoo'.
Please call me Bob. I have come to welcome you to our growing and dynamic community.

I am your <./>ACE</.> (assistant community editor). We are members of the community just like you, but have been around hootoo for a time and we are here to guide new members.

You are going to have a great time discovering this wonderful site, I know I did. I'm here to help you to get the best from hootoo, just as my ACE helped me when I was a new member.

Just look at the bottom of this message and you will see a reply button, click it to reply to this message (or any other).

Before you start posting messages remember that :-
Everyone can read what you write.
Once you click send you can neither edit nor delete any post you have sent. So try the preview button to check out your post.

Do have a quick read of the netiquette on h2g2 at A901838 and you won't run the risk of causing an upset. Please read A11284193 Post-post Remorse.
The thing you can create and edit is your personal space, or any guide entry you write, see A53209 Writing for the Edited Guide.

Two more links or this will get unexciting.

Lil's little list of links, just for you, so click here A4992357, they helped me.
and
Hints and Links: A719840
Now go and enjoy h2g2, remember why you signed up and go and indulge yourself, and remember: help is only a click away.

And don't forget to read The Post A20082025, hootoo's very own newspaper.

Bob

Hi Bob, thanks for the welcome, it was welcome...er.

Can I ask you a question?

Should I be replying to the most recent posts in conversations or to the parent post? Or does it even matter?

I'm writing my first entry now. Mexican jumping beans. Always the first thing I looked for in children's encyclopaedias. Alas my university days are over. Sigh.

Once I've done with that I thought maybe 101 naughty uses for an air compressor. Cackle, cackle, choke on hotdog.

Hi an_achromatic_eye or a,a,e if I can.

I have always replied to the most recent posts if I am up to date with the thread.

Or the parent post if I am behind but with an introduction eg.

Hi an_achromatic_eye
With ref post 2 in this thread.
101 naughty uses for an air compressor. Cackle, cackle, choke on hotdog. Providing you dont encourage anything dangerous it will be a fun entry...


See what I mean it is polite to all concerned.

Mexican jumping beans, that sounds good but before you commit to the time check the guide and see if anyone else has done a similar entry.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/brunel/Search?searchstring=Mexican+jumping+beans&searchtype=goosearch&go.x=9&go.y=9&go=Go

came up negative so go for it. Tip so others can see what you are doing create the entry the title and a few lines to bookmark it. Then click Not For Review button.


I hope this helps.


Bpb...

Thanks agian Bob.

The Mexican jumping beans have landed.

Good start, you seem to have the hang of it. How do you find useing Guide ML.
If you need any help just ask.