Editor Log: October 2003 (idea)

I will kiss the Girl From Venus!¹

• donsilk
• pjfruend3
• bhesters
• Kobie
• heyheymymy
• lburkley
• dolan53
• TwiztidBtchette
• explorer
• Gnome Hat
• Young Yoda
• shannonjordan
• MyBro
• Laron
• Xerxyl
• Satancamel
• dee415

Flowers die and so will I.

• the NHL vs the NHLPA by RoyHoo33 by request
• what men want in a woman by VelvetVoice
  first-time noder, first writeup. I can't greet them all in the first five minutes they're here...
• D&D vs. teen girl magazines by Heron Blade
  kind of like arguing that telemarketers are totally different from spammers, so we shouldn't be mad at both of them. The refreshing undercurrent of implied sexism was troll bait.
• Supermag by DummeGaas
  Still learning to node.
• something trying to tell me somebody by Tlogmer
  at hir request
• Filled an E2 Nuke Request by AnBolb involving many old and whiny writeups.
• Hull by cpt²
  Three words isn't
• TWO-DOLLAR BILL by MyBro
  PICK TITLES CAREFULLY and also learn about Capitalization in Node Titles... not horrible for a first effort, just in the wrong place with a nuke-bait title.
• Skew by pr0t0plasm
  If you're going to node slang or jargon, don't make shit up. Check out kthejoker's excellent Hecka for an exceptional slang writeup, or my light colonel for something more middle-of-the-road.
• Reverse airport test of relationships by Xerxyl
  Only three hardlinks, confused grammar, and poor spelling. Try again.
• Progressive Rock by relayer
  tell me more.
• Schlock Rock by Metacognizant
  because she replaced it with the slightly different Shlock Rock
• Chicken McNuggets by chefjohn
  even if it is true, it still needs to link and link.
• metapad by alvin
  superseded by MALTP

I will kiss the Girl From Venus: for sCience!

• Santa Fe, New Mexico by Young Yoda a solid factual writeup is. More like this I hope to see, mmmm...!
• mithridatism by Tem42 I was inspired to C! this after reading kthejoker's fabulous "Nothing is poison. Everything is poison.", which is also C!-worthy.
• Schlock Rock by Metacognizant 'cause everybody wants a rock to wind a piece of string around.

1. I greeted each of these noders within their first 24 hours on E2. I typically include links to the Perfect Node, E2 Clueless (newbie) mistakes to avoid, /msg, and the Power Structure of Everything2 in my greeting. Two noders this month wrote back and thanked me for the friendly welcome. I take this as a sign that I'm doing some good.
2. cpt is a new noder who started to write a series of nodes about shotguns and the mechanics of reloading one's own shells. This (the writing, not the reloading) is a common problem with noders who are otherwise very attentive to our rules. It seems like the desire exists to create a vaguely inbred series of definitions and jargon from one topic, and then slowly integrate their own nodespace with the nodegel. Can we (or do we already) address this in one of the FAQs?