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[Del Murder]

BoB came up with the porn idea too, nice.

I like Big D's idea of staff starting to bicker amongst themselves in threads. We'd have to start doing that soon, though.

Would ed know what was going on in his scenario? I don't think I could trust him to play along, or if I'd want to. The thing with joke bans is that it's been done before. Sure, not like this, but I like the idea of not banning someone. That would feed our elitist persona. It would take a lot of rumor spreading, though.

I think the idea of getting rid of Feedback is great.

RSL: Act like I did. We'd have to come up with a good 'edit' for the post.

[RSL]

Ah, good.

***CENSORED***, so it should be extra realistic if we do it outside this forum!

[Al]

Veeeery interesting. I would say that you, Del, would be the second best option for either of the porn ones. Kishi would be my first choice for those just 'cause its believable that he'd post something totally inappropriate. ^_^

I think II and IIIa are the best so far. I think just us bickering over different things would be the most fun for everyone, but that'd be really hard to pull off.

[RSL]

Yeah, Kishi would probably work better for the porn idea. I'm up for all these ideas!

[Del Murder]

To do the bickering we'd have to draw up the teams within a couple days, and then stay in character until the 24th or so when we split. The difficult part would be staying in character until then, and finding ways to bicker in the forums (besides Feedback, which would be simple), though that would also be the fun part.

[Big D]

We could combine everyone's ideas, and start having really bad clashes over numerous policy decisions. Sort of like a rift widening between numerous staffers, where we get on each others' nerves and eventually disagreeing just for the sake of disagreeing. This could include issues like spam, profanity, professionalism, closing threads/editing posts, and borderline porn. Goodness knows we often disagree, often passionately, on plenty of issues. With a bit of melodrama, we could ham it up into a full-blown personality clash, with staffers on different sides of the fence for different issues.

Feedback would be an ideal place for this kind of thing, but virtually any GC thread on a mildly controversial topic would be fine.

The only problem would be ensuring we all know when we're just acting... we'd need a thread in Staff where we post the link to every thread where we're pretending to argue.

Examples of snarky inter-staff posting:

I know YOU have a dirty mind, Shlup, but I don't really think the rest of us want that kind of policy change.

*snip* Edit by Big D: Flaming is bad, even when a staffer does it. Especially when a Staffer does it. See you in the Warned Members List, champ.

Shouldn't we keep these whiny pissing-contests in the Staff Forum where they belong?

In spite of what our esteemed Admin says, we haven't really discussed this issue in Staff so it's still open for debate. *Reopens thread*

These kinds of low-level hostilities could easily escalate into something big and nasty and definitely attention-grabbing. If we did it right, they'd totally overlook the fact that we're approaching April Fool's day.

If we just followed our instincts and disagreed however it suited us, we'd get a pretty plausible web of resentment and disparity.

[Del Murder]

I'm all for bickering around, leading up to one big incident that created the split (which I think should be one of the porn ideas). That sounds great!

It has to start subtle, though, and like D says we have to remember which side we're on.

I love D's quotes. The funny part is this is all stuff that ***CENSORED***, when there wasn't a big joke going on.

[RSL]

This sounds like so much fun. The best part will be Raistlin's LJ.