April Fools - Advance planning & ideas - CENSORED THREAD

[Del Murder]

I, like BoB agree that the three main phases should be:

1. Power struggle (soon - March 24-25)
a. Starts in Feedback, perhaps two staffers should have an open argument over something
i. Should be BoB and Shlup, since they are the most active participators in Feedback arguments
b. Trickles out into the forums in the form of opening/closing threads, sticking/unsticking, editing each other's posts, etc.
i. Could also invlove LJ, and buttering up the victims in aim
c. Make sure you don't stray too far from your own ideals, as Leeza says, be yourself, only to the extreme, and disregard your usual respect and courtesy towards the rest of us

2. Banning of a member causes some staff to quit (March 24-26)
a. I think it should be a staff member and over porn
i. BoB: The thing about me is that not many people outside of staff know what I'm capable of, but if I am wrong about that then I agree with you that it would not make sense that I would post porn
ii. I think kishi would be the best candidate, since he has that nice air of mystery around him that can take care of motive, and there would be much more uproar than if I did it
ii. The post would of course not have any porn, it would quickly be edited by someone else
iii. When people ask to see the subject in question (in im, pm, whatever) we'd have to come up with a reason not to give it, since it doesn't exist
b. The other idea is to ban/un ban ed
i. My gripe with this is that it relies on ed too much and he is unpredictable
ii. It would at least be more believable than banning a staff member
c. This is where 3-5 staff members would quit
i. Need to pick teams (once a. or b. is decided)
ii. Mod those discussed in the 'New Knights' thread as their replacements, but at least allow a day or two to pass beforehand

3. Feedback Forum is removed due to continued uprising (March 26-April 1)
a. The quitter group could argue with the remaining staff, but we should be sure to allow one of the upstarts to start it
b. On April 1 everything goes back to normal with no explanation, with the exception of the new staff members staying, of course

[Shlup]

We could even take the power struggle a step farther by finding a reason to ban at least one of the people that step down. That's be amusing.

And I like the "everything back to normal with no explaination." I amuses me to think about.

[Leeza]

I agree that Kishi should be the one to post the porn and not you, Del. If he agrees. If anyone gets their email notifications like I do though, and there's an image posted, I get to see it through Hotmail without having to come into EoFF. So, it wouldn't matter if it's editted immediately, I would still see the uneditted link or whatever else was posted, and it, of course, would show no porn. I think it would just have to be a post with a fake edit in it to begin with. But if I'm the only one who gets email notifications then it doesn't matter.

[Shlup]

Or the staff member could post a fake edit rather than posting nothing and waiting for someone to edit it.

[Leeza]

Please disregard my last post as it is totally incorrect. I would have to be subscribed to a thread before I would get email notification of it so all Kishi would have to do is start a new thread.

[Del Murder]

If it's done during a period of low activity then the person could just post the edit to begin with, like Shlup says. Members have no way of knowing if a post was staff edited or not. Just make sure the 'editing' staffer is also online at the time.

[Shlup]

We need to do something in the next couple of days thats likely to make Raist start a bitching thread... Hmm...

[Leeza]

I can edit some posts that have a lot of useless smurfs in them.

[Shlup]

We would have to get someone to do that though. And then complain about it. And then Raist would surely flip. Hehe

[Del Murder]

He won't notice in time...unless it's ed. Maybe he can useful after all.

What's something else he cares about? I agree that things should be getting underway fairly quickly.

We could also try to get Proto to complain about something, allowing Raist to jump in as usual. ***CENSORED***

[Leeza]

Do you mean by having Proto in on the joke? Because I think that Proto will spill the beans to Raistlin if he's in on it.

[Big D]

Nah, I think Del means we could easily 'wind up' Pr0t so that he'd complain about something we want him to complain about. We could do something crafty... just serious enough to provoke him into Feedbacking (I've invented a new word!) without causing a really big stink.

[Shlup]

*puts on her thinking cap*

[Del Murder]

Nah, I think Del means we could easily 'wind up' Pr0t so that he'd complain about something we want him to complain about. We could do something crafty... just serious enough to provoke him into Feedbacking (I've invented a new word!) without causing a really big stink.

Yes. Proto would be easier to get going than Raist since he's a lot more active. He will not be in on it. I can't think of anything right now. He brings up a lot of random topics.

[Del Murder]

This might get the ball rolloing.

The closed threads thing is a recent issue and is also pretty stupid. Maybe someone will take the bait I just laid and this will be what gets us started. Thoughts?