April Fools - Advance planning & ideas - CENSORED THREAD

[crono_logical]

Well we'll never be able to pull a stunt of this size off again

[Big D]

I agree with Eest. We've basically played out a *very plausible* worst-case scenario, and the results have been very informative. Members' views on discipline and rule-making have been fascinating, as is their willingness to blame it all on Shlup. Threads like that "serious or silly?" thing were created in order to provoke the drama, but they also have genuine topics which are useful to us all.

[Shlup]

I spent so much time making a giant bitch of myself, you guys had damn well better make this thread public so there's proof much of my bitchiness was for the sake of a joke.

I was going to copy this thread to the WML, go through that copy and censor posts, then move it to the Gen Archive and link to it from Gen Chat, but I'm moving on Friday and may not have internet available... BoB was gonna do it but now he's a wang. Any other volunteers?

[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

I'll do it.

[eestlinc]

It can be your punishment!

[RSL]

I can help you out on the thread if you want me too, Kishi. Or not, up to you. It's a big thread.

[Del Murder]

I was going to copy this thread to the WML, go through that copy and censor posts, then move it to the Gen Archive and link to it from Gen Chat, but I'm moving on Friday and may not have internet available... BoB was gonna do it but now he's a wang. Any other volunteers?

Sounds like a good idea. Kishi can do it, and if he messes up he will be banned! It's all going according to plan...

I thought we should maybe speed things up a bit. Instead of everything going back to normal on april 1 and this thread being visible on April 2 or 3, instead we have stuff go back to normal on the 31st (or 30th even) and then on April 1 make a GC thread called 'Happy April Fools Day' that contains nothing but a link to the censored version of this thread (in the archive). Your thoughts.

Why is Feedback still up? Where the hell is Roogle?

[eestlinc]

today seems like a good day to close feedback and soon announce the replacements.

[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

The people who suspect this is an April Fool's thing should be kept in suspense as long as possible, so, as was said before, everything should go back to normal at the end of the 1st. Then this thread can go out on the 2nd.

[Loony BoB]

I spent so much time making a giant bitch of myself, you guys had damn well better make this thread public so there's proof much of my bitchiness was for the sake of a joke.

I was going to copy this thread to the WML, go through that copy and censor posts, then move it to the Gen Archive and link to it from Gen Chat, but I'm moving on Friday and may not have internet available... BoB was gonna do it but now he's a wang. Any other volunteers?

BoB was gonna do it? When did I say I wouldn't? =P I don't see why we can't just all go through it as we please. We only need one person to go over the whole thing but everyone else can feel free to go over their posts too.

[Loony BoB]

I think it's about time we Knighted eestlinc. We'll save foa for sometime over the next couple of days.

[Loony BoB]

Can you please grant Secret Squirrels access to the Feedback Forum? =P

[Roogle]

Got it.

[Loony BoB]

I'd have done the announcement without even suggesting we're going to bother with a 'new' forum later on, personally. Maybe say "we might" but not "there will be".

[Roogle]

I changed it just for yoooooou.