Am I being too april foolish?

[Nafae]

I decided to go all april fools on my members, but am worried if I have been a bit too... real for them to know the difference. If someone could evaluate (no, you don't have to register, this isn't some ploy to get you on my site) if you think that this sounds a bit too wild?

First, I posted this: http://www.coderforums.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=224

Then, I posted this (as a new username-Becky-Sue):

http://www.coderforums.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=225

It contains a few vulgar words, so don't say I didn't warn you.

[tubedogg]

lol

I suppose I should come up with something...maybe having Tubescan (a Real World/Road Rules fansite) being bought out by MTV? that might work :D

[Steve Machol]

I don't know about your Board and your members, but if you are having seconds thoughts then this might be an indication that you've gone too far.

[Jake Bunce]

lol, that is so cool :D

i'm not doing april fools this year. i'm just gonna post a news thing asking what april fools jokes people have pulled on other people this year.

[Steve Machol]

I've added FireFly's {bbusername} hack and am going to post a 'complaint' letter generated by this site:

http://hugin.sigusr1.org/~pakin/complaint

[Nafae]

I toned mine down a bit, removed some of the foul language and removed Becky's rules. So now the only post is that of my sister, Brenda.

[Chen]

Nafae, it might be more convincing if you weren't on the Online Users list. ;)

[Chen]

Originally posted by smachol
I've added FireFly's {bbusername} hack and am going to post a 'complaint' letter generated by this site:

http://hugin.sigusr1.org/~pakin/complaint
That URL doesn't work but hehe: http://www.optiboard.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=4330

[Jake Bunce]

Originally posted by FireFly

That URL doesn't work but hehe: http://www.optiboard.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=4330

the truth about me! :rolleyes: :p

good stuff. :D

[Steve Machol]

Originally posted by FireFly

That URL doesn't work but hehe: http://www.optiboard.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=4330 Hmm...I checked the URL again is it works fine from here. What this is is an automated complaint generator. I've used this before with predictably funny results. The complaints it generates are full of so much babble and jargin that people get easily taken in by it.

Now I'll just sit back and watch the reaction from my Members! :D

And Jake- it's all true you know! ;)

[kippesp]

Our site is having a little makeover for April Fools day. I was pleasantly impressed to see our home page go all Lord of the Rings (http://fictionalley.org). All I knew about was Firefly's bbusername replacement since that was my effort.

To top it off, our site is being parodied by the "competition" today (http://www.sugarquill.net/). Silly kids.

[ethank]

I'm not doing an April Fools joke anymore. I learned my lesson last year. I posted saying that Murmurs was going down because I was tired of REM and doing the site.

Bad mistake! I quickly realized that April Fools day is not an international holiday. I had calls, 500 or so e-mails, etc. The band even got worried before they realized the date.

So this year, no april fools day.

[Dave#]

We are doing one this morning too

http://www.cpfc.org/forums/showthread.php?threadid=20809

[Tolitz]

Here's ours ;)

http://www.opentechsupport.net

Read the press release (http://www.opentechsupport.net/pressrelease.html)... then read the uproar (http://www.opentechsupport.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=6732) ;)

[Chen]

Here's ours:
http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=36778
Gotcha, no 2.2.5 release for you! Muwhahaha...

[Steve Machol]

Mine's going pretty well. I've already recieved several 'reported post' emails about it. :D

http://www.optiboard.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=4330

[The_Sisko]

We told our member we are becoming the official german StarTrek Forum as there isn't any at the moment.
But at the moment they don't like the idea :D

http://www.studenten-city.de/stf/showthread.php?threadid=11488
[all in german] ...

They don't like it because we told them everything will be different...smaller and more rules! :D:D:D

hehe...

[ethank]

I did a parody story, and used it to tease a bit some people in REM :)

http://m2k1.murmurs.com/news/story.php?id=2531

Ethan

[TWTCommish]

I added a fake news story on my site...and I faked a hacking. I've been laughing it up all morning.

[Joe]

Heres mine - The Ad for the Ford Excursion on a more or less anti-SUV cycling forum: http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=7037 and http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=7035

[Ian]

I noticed http://www.gamefaqs.com/ got a makeover for April 1st...

[Nafae]

some funny ones I have noticed:

http://www.gamefaqs.com/
http://gamespot.com/gamespot/stories/news/0,10870,2859460,00.html
http://www.macobserver.com/article/2002/04/01.5.shtml
http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/looflirpa/wil.shtml
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/looflirpa/duke.shtml
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/looflirpa/bobafett.shtml
http://www.xbox.com/

[Jake Bunce]

lol @ xbox.com

the bob head thingies are so cool!

[ethank]

Heh....

A few magazines called the band's office to get comment on my april fools story.

I can't believe ANYONE would think that story was true.

[Pingu]

Originally posted by smachol
Mine's going pretty well. I've already recieved several 'reported post' emails about it. :D

http://www.optiboard.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=4330
hehe, I recognize those golden-yellow smilies a mile away :D

And, no, they're not mine. Someone posted a bunch of them a while ago, I just added another bunch. Still add some every now and then...