April Fools - Advance planning & ideas - CENSORED THREAD

[Del Murder]

No one gives a crap about the chat room. You've got to hit em where it hurts.

[Shlup]

This is going to be easier than I thought. o.O

I'll wait until Leeza or someone closes the thread.

[Del Murder]

Oh, I did it. Do you want to wait for someone less popular to do it?

[Shlup]

It doesn't really matter. I can't decide yet if I want to be one of the closers or one of the re-openers.

[Shlup]

I've been feeling a growing urge to kill ***CENSORED***, and it just spiked a point. Is that bad?

[Del Murder]

Use it to our advantage. You and I should stick together Shlup, we could make beautiful music together. I think with Yams, D, and Leeza we'd make the best 'rouge' group. Have we decided who's going to quit yet?

[Shlup]

I think we're waiting to officially decide until we see how this plays out over the next week or two. We have plenty of time to decide, since we only have to step down a few days in advance.

[Leeza]

Haha. Closing that thread should upset someone I'm sure. I'm not on Raistlin's LJ friends list so you guys will have to keep some of us updated on if he posts anything.

I think we'll have to play it by ear and see what happens closer to April 1st, but I'd like to be one of the staff that steps down, depending on how many of us should. I think Del stepping down will be a big hit. Kishi as well, but the thing is that I don't see Kishi being someone who would announce that he'd be leaving. He would just disappear quietly...like he's already done more than once.

And I don't think any of us have to be only closers or re-openers. We can all close threads here and there and one of us will disagree with the closure and reopen it and then we can eventually start attacking each other for overstepping our decision to close. This should make it look like we really don't discuss or agree on anything.

[Big D]

***CENSORED***
Hah. Being "really serious" is fun sometimes

I'd like to be one of the "quitters" at the end of all this. I can pretend to get increasingly flustered and stressed by the decaying standards of Shlup and the like

I've also thought of a shocking curveball I can throw in at the last minute to help justify my departure

[Big D]

I reckon this thread would be a good place for posting links to all our "act" posts.
Just so we can keep track of what's real and what's staged. Could be handy for future reference, and to make sure none of us gets the wrong idea

[Loony BoB]

We still need to figure out which idea we'll use. I'm all for the Kishi-posts-porn-thread or the Someone-bans-ed idea. I think someone banning ed would be ever-so-slightly more realistic, and maybe we can ban Kane, too. People would think - especially after Baloki and Linus getting banned - that we're getting really angsty. Arguments would arise over whether they should have been banned. I really would love to see the ban-unban-ban-unban-ban ordeal, too.

Stepping down would have to be staggered - we can't just demote everyone in one go. So people will have to make posts saying "This is where I step down!" and stuff. Maybe someone can make a big rant about EoFF going down a hole so they decided to resign. That would be great. I hope someone will.

I think that Kishi or ed should be banned and unbanned a few times over and then eventually unbanned - because that way the winners would be the more 'lax' of our group, and then more serious people would step down. I'd expect that to include Unne, Leeza, maybe Big D since he wants to... Daryl, too, I'd imagine. Matt? RSL? Anyone else think that if ed or Kishi were to be unbanned for elitist reasons that they'd step down? I don't know if I would, but I'm happy being on either side. I'm just really not very good at being angry, but one thing I am good at is saying that everything is okay and denying that Staff has any problems. If Kishi was to post a porn-thread and then (after the ban-unban thing) get away with it, then everyone would say "Oh, Daniel would ban them!" When I don't, Raistlin and Psychotic will accuse me of going back on my word and being an elitist (along with other still-staffers). Most likely they'd bring this up in Feedback. That would be a great chance to permanently close Feedback. Then they'd start in LJ and General Chat. And then we'd have our fun and then April Fool's would come and we'd be all happy-days-nothing-is-wrong-do-you-like-our-new-Knights-they-are-pretty-and-fun.

Remember, try not to make every post a "unlike some staff 'friends' of mine..." stuff and keep it to "No, I think this can stay open... it'll be fine." Stuff like that will be much more believable. We only need to do it 3-4 times to make it look like we're having issues, anyway, and when we do the ban and power struggle and demotings, then that's where the big stuff will begin. Thread closures and whatnot should be very minor in comparison. The power struggle will be in the banning and unbanning of ed or Kishi.

Also, whoever stays on Staff shouldn't do the moaning at all. They should be all "it's okay, we'll sort it out" kind of stuff. If everyone starts doing the acting up, it'll be too obvious. We only need 3-5 people to really do the acting, and those are the ones that step down.

We also need to make sure the new Knights know what to expect and how to act and they need to know all this is a practical joke on the rest of the forums. They'll be just as much a part of this as anyone. We don't want eest thinking that it's all going to hell and then for him to decline the offer of being a Knight because of it.

[Loony BoB]

Okay, I think Kishi should be 'banned' because he posted a thread with Hentai in it. Not porn. Maybe linking to a site that was full of Hentai material as well as those japanese hentai comic things. That sounds mildly realistic. We can make it be a borderline site so that's why there's the old struggle over whether or not he should be banned. Say he linked to a site that contained hentai images in at least three different locations. I'm not sure WHERE that site would be - he could probably come up with something. Someone on step-down-side would remove the link and ban him. Someone on the stay-on-staff side would unban him (obviously an admin) saying we need to discuss this one further and find out Kishi's side of the story. He'd admit to things and say he shouldn't get banned for it (or whatever he thinks he'd likely say), and get instantly banned by a step-down-side person once they see the post. The stay-on-staff group would then unban him saying we still need to discuss the matter before we make the final ban, and start backing Kishi. Then one of the step-down-side would step down - maybe Unne or an admin, since they can demote themselves without argument - and that would give cause for the others to follow suit. Everyone who remains would be all "Oh, well, it's tough times but we'll work it through" and act positive for the most part (because that's what we do in those situations, we've had it happen before after all), and everyone who stepped down can be moody and begrudged.

The the 'revolution' and 'down with elitism' or whatever threads in Feedback, then the closing of Feedback, etc. Oh, and the new Knights. One being ShivaBlizzard8 which will hopefully surprise everyone enough to counter the possible people out there that might maybe guess all of this to be a hoax. After all, why would we let a fairly unknown member of EoFF in on things? Mwahaha! I'm so happy.

It's all too perfect. Mwahahah.

[RSL]

I think we should do it exactly as BoB just posted. The unknown, of course, is how people will react. We can guess people's likely responses easily enough, but they can always suprise us.

[Loony BoB]

Well, we can keep in mind that even if it doesn't work, at least it won't be as bad as the time we did the fake public staff forum. So obvious. So bad. xD

[Leeza]

I just closed that 'crush' thread so someone can reopen it at some point.

I like your layout there, BoB, but Kishi hasn't really done too much posting in this thread so I hope he agrees to posting some non-porn and getting himself banned.