Lets ban psychotic for a week. That would cause a HUGE uproar.
Lets ban psychotic for a week. That would cause a HUGE uproar.
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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.
Those are good suggestions, D. We could do any of that.
The best suggestion I can come up with right now is working with Raist and Bleys's complaints about lack of professionalism among the staff. We could divide into members that think staffing should be fun, and those that thinks its a responsibility, pretend we argued about this for awhile, then one of us "fun" staffers does something public that "pisses off the more professional staffers" and that causes an uproar.
That's the best I came up with so far.
Haha, that'd be cool. 'Serious versus fun', I mean. We've definitely got our own reputations in that regard, we could go to extremes without anyone getting suspicious. It kind of happens already, sometimes, just not in the wildly dramatic way we'd need to invent for this gag to work.
I'm all in favour.
People seem to think I've been behaving differently lately, so it'd be fun to see which side of the 'serious/fun' divide I fall on.
How bout we make the forums index one big white page of death with a small link hidden somewheres to get inside.
That would also be amusing. Or, even better, make it an "I'm sorry, I'm taking EoFF down," page with a small link to the forums. I wonder how many people wouldn't ever get that its a joke and never come back. xD
We must get Raistlin to believe everything. I want him to make a massively long LJ entry talking about it.
Possible scenarios:
1) Disagreements over the swear filter. The Staffers who haven't replied to Raistlin's thread actually want more swear words to be allowed.
2) I want to unban Baloki (which would make him the first of his kind to actually be unbanned - the only other that I know of is The Model Citizen, who wasn't unbanned but merely re-registered after a board change and we never bothered to ban him again), and we're all split on the decision.
3) We just don't tell anyone what's going on, other than 'we had some disagreements and some Staff decided to step down.' This would probably be the easiest to pull off, but most boring.
4) Some Staffers want to ban ed, Raistlin, Kane and a couple of other members (maybe Doomgaze, Bleys or something) that they think the other Staffers are being too lenient to. We could actually go ahead and ban them just to make things more interesting.Although that would probably cause more of an uproar.
5) Cid wants to make the brown theme the ownly theme at EoFF. Many Staffers would rather die than see this happen, so they step down in protest.
6) We get some members in on the act and have them start a revolt against the existing Staff. I personally like this idea the most, provided we can get someone like Bleys in on it. We would only need a couple of members to be in on it and others would probably join their 'cause' anyway. xD
7) Unne could ban ed over something fairly minor (ed being stupid, Unne having enough of ed, etc.) and we could easily start a civil war with that one.
8) We could ban one of us, saying that we'd posted porn. That could be amusing. xD We could say it was posted in the Staff Forum, and then the rest of us could debate over whether or not posting porn in the Staff Forum is a bannable offence since we break so many rules in here anyway.
9) The debate over 'fun' and 'serious' reigns on to an extreme, with the Staff getting really edgy and whatnot.
10) Big D's idea of the public debate between two or more staffers over things. Maybe even a bun, unban, ban, unban of someone's account. That could be amusing.
It's also notable that right now I have a vB which isn't really being used. If we want to take it really far, we could set up a new FF site and see how many people 'convert'. xD
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1) Disagreements over the swear filter. The Staffers who haven't replied to Raistlin's thread actually want more swear words to be allowed.
That might be good.
2) I want to unban Baloki (which would make him the first of his kind to actually be unbanned - the only other that I know of is The Model Citizen, who wasn't unbanned but merely re-registered after a board change and we never bothered to ban him again), and we're all split on the decision.
Didn't you guys do the unbanning thing last year? It wouldn't be funny. Plus Baloki sucks.
3) We just don't tell anyone what's going on, other than 'we had some disagreements and some Staff decided to step down.' This would probably be the easiest to pull off, but most boring.
Yeah, boring.
4) Some Staffers want to ban ed, Raistlin, Kane and a couple of other members (maybe Doomgaze, Bleys or something) that they think the other Staffers are being too lenient to. We could actually go ahead and ban them just to make things more interesting.
I like this one.
5) Cid wants to make the brown theme the ownly theme at EoFF. Many Staffers would rather die than see this happen, so they step down in protest.
I LOVE this one.
6) We get some members in on the act and have them start a revolt against the existing Staff. I personally like this idea the most, provided we can get someone like Bleys in on it. We would only need a couple of members to be in on it and others would probably join their 'cause' anyway. xD
This is fine, but I don't like Bleys being in on it.
7) Unne could ban ed over something fairly minor (ed being stupid, Unne having enough of ed, etc.) and we could easily start a civil war with that one.
Sounds cool.
8) We could ban one of us, saying that we'd posted porn. That could be amusing. xD We could say it was posted in the Staff Forum, and then the rest of us could debate over whether or not posting porn in the Staff Forum is a bannable offence since we break so many rules in here anyway.
Could work.
9) The debate over 'fun' and 'serious' reigns on to an extreme, with the Staff getting really edgy and whatnot.
I like this one.
10) Big D's idea of the public debate between two or more staffers over things. Maybe even a bun, unban, ban, unban of someone's account. That could be amusing.
This one would be fun.
Another idea maybe: Cid could say he can't afford to keep this place up anymore, and one of us on staff (a knight preferably) offers to pay for all of it. They get promoted to head admin and Cid steps down since he no longer owns the place. The new admin does fine for a day or two, but then starts messing things up and gets power hungry and bans a few people. It probably wouldn't work out that much, but it sounded like a good idea in my head.
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More ideas: Removing Eyes on Each other and/or removing the Feedback Forum.
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I'm all for Unne banning ed for fun because I know that would push Raistlin's buttons.
Removing Feedback would be great
As for people stepping down, if you do go with that, would it be better if you just hid their ranks instead, so they could stay up to date in the staff forum or something if they still wanted that?
Good plan. *nods*Originally Posted by cl_out
Removing Feedback would be great
As for people stepping down, if you do go with that, would it be better if you just hid their ranks instead, so they could stay up to date in the staff forum or something if they still wanted that?
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Okay, I think we should ban ed AND remove Feedback shortly after some people step down. Then we'll really piss Raist off.
My proposal: We ban ed, and then we unban him a few hours later, and then we ban him again - it'll look like a power struggle. Then, depending on who we want to step down, we either leave him banned or unbanned. It's notable that we can't contact edc or see his angstyness in all of this if we ban him - he doesn't use LJ or anything. I think we should leave him unbanned. Then Unne "steps down", and then a couple of others follow his lead. Try for 3-4 members stepping down. Make sure they have their reason. Then we start Knighting a few other people (we'll have to make sure they know what's going on).
A thread will probably start up in Feedback, so we close Feedback and adjust permissions so nobody can see it. Raist will be fuming in his LJ by now and we might have some upset older members at what's going on. By this point it'll be a few days away from 1st of April and I'm sure there will be a thread about EoFF having gone to hell, which we can have one staffer close and another staffer open it again, showing we're having trouble settling, what with a few experienced staffers gone and a few new ones in. Then, April Fools strikes, we go straight back to normal. Keep the new Knights, of course, but Feedback returns and is opened, Unne is admin and the others are back in as well. Hide all threads that were made in relation to the events that happened for all of April Fools and act as though nothing happened at all. Each time someone asks about it, just say something like "What? We don't know what you're talking about.
EDIT: The alternative of Unne stepping down and ed being unbanned would be ed staying banned and Unne staying on Staff and other people stepping down. Then we remove Feedback and we can also go really hardline against swearing if we want to, too.
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xDOkay, I think we should ban ed AND remove Feedback shortly after some people step down. Then we'll really piss Raist off.
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You don't know how long Dr Unne will be gone so it might be a little difficult to plan around him, but that would be a good plan.
I'm willing to step down due to ***CENSORED*** if needed. I like removing Feedback.
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