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[Del Murder]

The old vs. new style is a good idea, because that will generate a LOT of response from the members. The only problem is I don't know if I could tolerate the new style for a couple days.

[crono_logical]

At least you can still change if the avatar bit is on the top or the side, in your User CP

[ShlupQuack]

I don't know if people're gonna believe that Sean would do that. Bleys and Raist 100% would not believe it. No one who knows Sean thinks he's that much of an ass.

[Del Murder]

Raist will believe it. Bleys may or may not, I don't have a good enough read on him to tell. I think it will depend on his mood.

Come up with a better rule if you can. I will do my best to.

Can I have permission to reveal our plan to eestlinc? He's great at coming up with stuff. He wouldn't buy any of it anyway.

[ShlupQuack]

I really don't think enough people would believe it for it to be much good. Of course people that don't know Sean at all will probably believe it, but I don't think anyone else will.

Hmm... I'm thinking, but coming up short. I feel inclined to exploit Raist in some way.

I don't care if you tell eest or not, but wait for other people's opinions just 'cause I dunno if anyone's really intent on eest being one of the victims or not.

[Del Murder]

If they are they will be disappointed, but enough about that.

You knowing Sean makes you biased to think that no one could see him as an ass. Sean hasn't posted regularly for at least three years, and most members (including myself) don't have any sense of his personality. They would all buy it. Even the older members might be swayed to think he changed over the years, with the proper sugar coating. Of course, I wasn't around back then so I don't have a gauge into what the dynamic was, which is crucial to this analysis. And the other point is I don't want to turn the poor guy into a pawn for our evil bidding and make him look like this big hardass if he isn't cool with it, even if it is only for a couple days. We can actually avoid all this stuff by coming up with a very good corporate sounding reason for him to get rid of the other styles. I'll try to work on that right now.

If we really wanted to target Raistlin with our prank then I think the swear filter is the way to go. What are all the silly things that happen at FG that cause staff people to step down? They are a (fools) gold mine for that stuff. Yams, I'm putting you in charge of that one.

I keep thinking there's something else out there. Something so stupid, yet so believable, that it will create the biggest panty bunch that Eyeson has ever known.

[m4tt]

Lets ban psychotic for a week. That would cause a HUGE uproar.

[Big D]

I reckon we could 'stage' a few public conflicts between staff, leading to some kind of big bust-up.
For example, Shlup closes a thread in Feedback, saying "we discussed this in Staff and we're not going to do it", then I re-open the thread saying, "like hell we discussed it! Stop making our decisions for all of us" or something similar. Or a staffer posts a thread that's borderline spam and then another staffer closes it, saying "I expected better from you!"

That kind of low-level sniping against each other would make our descent into division quite believeable for the members. We could be divided on "policy" lines: those who favour the quick, simple approach of "follow the rules to the letter because it's convenient" and the ones who want a "case-by-case, let's-be-flexible" approach.
Or something similar. I just think it'd be fun to pretend to argue for a few days before going really stroppy and declaring war on one another.