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Post Post #100 (ISO) » Sat Apr 01, 2017 4:21 pm

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Post Post #101 (ISO) » Sat Apr 01, 2017 4:36 pm

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Post Post #102 (ISO) » Sat Apr 01, 2017 10:23 pm

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In post 62, hiplop wrote:
In post 60, Davsto wrote:Really? Even the screenshot of the Facebook conversation where it looked like very personal arguments were being thrown between Reck and Pie?
yea, that was pretty hilarious.

Being offended doesn't mean you're right, etc.
It being funny to you also doesn't mean that it was right. I think the way you approached davsto here is probably the worst thing that's come of this whole experience. And just to get my personal opinion out there to help qualify my response to you, I didn't find it funny and thought it was slightly problematic but not enough to make a stink over.
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Post Post #103 (ISO) » Sat Apr 01, 2017 10:33 pm

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i agree with you fully, chamber.
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Post Post #104 (ISO) » Sun Apr 02, 2017 5:23 am

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In post 90, Untrod Tripod wrote:imo it's probably not a very good joke unless there's at least a type of person who doesn't find it funny

sorry you were in that group Chevre, hopefully what we do next year will appeal to you
chev would like it if we made everyone's avatars kittens

omg wouldn't that just be hysterrrrical
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Post Post #105 (ISO) » Sun Apr 02, 2017 5:23 am

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In post 58, Shadoweh wrote:Reck's posts were meant to be satire based on his own previous patterns of making huge mod rants. Maybe the joke was too meta?
ding ding ding

the whole reason zor asked me to make an OTT post like that was because i have a history of doing that in response to bans

ffs i even named the thread basically the exact thing i did previously
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Post Post #106 (ISO) » Sun Apr 02, 2017 5:27 am

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anyway glad that's over because people have subjective tastes

i for one found it obnoxious and offputting when we had the whole forum changed to a different theme for a day

wow so original much prank etc

april fools is supposed to be convincing someone of something and calling them out on it (an april fool) when they believe it

pie was in on it, everyone was in on it

some of the things being said were so goddamn absurd i thought it was obvious we were doing a "take something obviously farcical too seriously" thing

people's usernames were changed to pink and puke green and even white at different times
admins were changing each other's permissions

i think it was pretty funny. but i also think that uncanny valley uncomfortable weirdness tinged with reality is way funnier than LOL EVERYONE LOOK OUR SITE HAS A DIFFERENT CSS FOR THE DAY or LOL GUYS ISN'T IT FUNNY HOW WE MENTIONED THE TIGERS
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Post Post #107 (ISO) » Sun Apr 02, 2017 5:27 am

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altho i do think maybe the facebook convo b/t me and pie was too serious and not farcical enough but i legit thought it being surrounded by the rest of the OTT bullshit would make it obv
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Post Post #108 (ISO) » Sun Apr 02, 2017 5:51 am

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Thanks everyone for covering up my crappy rule change with an elaborate attempt to make it seem like an April fools joke
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Post Post #109 (ISO) » Sun Apr 02, 2017 6:01 am

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In post 107, xRECKONERx wrote:altho i do think maybe the facebook convo b/t me and pie was too serious and not farcical enough but i legit thought it being surrounded by the rest of the OTT bullshit would make it obv
It was obvious

If people missed it, reaction should be "wow I can't believe I didnt notice, haha!" Not discussing whether it was crossing a line because they missed it
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Post Post #110 (ISO) » Sun Apr 02, 2017 6:04 am

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I hate April fools day, and it sucks even more on the internet because it's longer than just the day itself because of time zones.

So you're browsing the web on the 31st and having to question what you see because it's April fools now for other time zones...

Maybe next year the site will be more original than pretending to ban people.
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Post Post #111 (ISO) » Sun Apr 02, 2017 6:11 am

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I guess we just have differing philosophies about April Fool's. Pretty much anyone and everyone knows what April 1st means, so it's nigh-impossible to fool anyone, especially the clever sort this site attracts.

You're trying to argue both "April Fool's is meant to fool you!" and "This April Fool's joke was
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obvious!" and that's EXACTLY why this joke is getting mixed reviews.

I think the way to do anything on a medium as impersonal as an Internet forum is to make it dopey and low-impact. Like, changing everyone's avatars to kittens would be an obvious joke but it's also aggressively harmless. Compare "wow, you got a Scottish Fold? TEAM ANGORAS 4 LYFE" vs. "Wow Reck sure doesn't seem to like MattP anymore. The mods at are odds with one another. Hm"

Like one more thing is that this joke would be incredibly complex to understand if you just started visiting this site. I get that we are a deep community but it required an understanding of Reck's past behavior, moderator distinctions, recent rule discussions, etc.
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Post Post #112 (ISO) » Sun Apr 02, 2017 6:21 am

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People delving into the bans and the ban discussion are exactly the people who generally have an understanding of that.

Anyway, April fools won't always be funny to everyone. If it's not your cup of tea this year, then shrug it off and wait for next. Or hunker down and ignore everything for 1/365th of the year.
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Post Post #113 (ISO) » Sun Apr 02, 2017 8:00 am

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In post 112, zoraster wrote:People delving into the bans and the ban discussion are exactly the people who generally have an understanding of that.

Anyway, April fools won't always be funny to everyone. If it's not your cup of tea this year, then shrug it off and wait for next. Or hunker down and ignore everything for 1/365th of the year.
I thought I was done with this thread but this shows that you really missed the reason behind upset feelings. It's not whether it was funny or not. I'd wager that every april fools joke has been unfunny to most people, we haven't had strong ones historically. So why is there more negative feedback for this one? I can't know for sure, but I can give a theory, you made people the didn't get that is was a lie angry. Haha? Where is the joke? Most april fools attempts will go in the other direction "Here is this good thing, oh wait trololol". I think there is a reason for that.
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Post Post #114 (ISO) » Sun Apr 02, 2017 8:21 am

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to be fair chamber you look for any opportunity to shit on the administration so
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Post Post #115 (ISO) » Sun Apr 02, 2017 8:22 am

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Personally I'm in favor of making the homepage look like a Mafia 4 splash next year and then we try to leak it to gaming communities as a marketing ploy
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Post Post #116 (ISO) » Sun Apr 02, 2017 8:52 am

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In post 114, Nexus wrote:to be fair chamber you look for any opportunity to shit on the administration so
Wow, what a pathetically cheap shot.

I agree with everything chamber has said, and I'm someone who has consistently been very supportive and appreciative of the moderation.

Of course, you ignore that because you don't really have a proper argument or defence and just want to make another jab at chamber, and it doesn't fit your narrative that maybe his issue is exactly what he says it is rather than him just having another go at the moderation.
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Post Post #117 (ISO) » Sun Apr 02, 2017 8:54 am

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Post Post #118 (ISO) » Sun Apr 02, 2017 9:32 am

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In post 114, Nexus wrote:to be fair chamber you look for any opportunity to shit on the administration so
I don't think that's true. I can think of instances where I've explicitly defended choices that the staff has made. I do think I'm more often critical than supportive, but a good deal of that is likely just that good decisions can more easily go unnoticed.

With that said I'm not really interested in arguing that point. I don't even think this issue is all that important as I've said before, and when I thought this was it, I was just going to let it go. Zoraster's post that I responded to seemed to imply that he missed the issues I saw with it though, so I pointed them out in hopes of having this not be repeated. I don't think you guys went into this with malice. I don't even think it was particularly incompetent. It could even be argued that the april fools joke I pulled when I was red is similar in nature, and from the inside I didn't see it's flaws. But I would like for it to not happen again.
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Post Post #119 (ISO) » Sun Apr 02, 2017 9:37 am

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In post 116, Davsto wrote:
In post 114, Nexus wrote:to be fair chamber you look for any opportunity to shit on the administration so
Wow, what a pathetically cheap shot.

I agree with everything chamber has said, and I'm someone who has consistently been very supportive and appreciative of the moderation.

Of course, you ignore that because you don't really have a proper argument or defence and just want to make another jab at chamber, and it doesn't fit your narrative that maybe his issue is exactly what he says it is rather than him just having another go at the moderation.

There's no puns in this post, chamber must have hacked davsto's account
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Post Post #120 (ISO) » Sun Apr 02, 2017 9:47 am

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jesus christ maybe people are right about snowflake syndrome
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Post Post #121 (ISO) » Sun Apr 02, 2017 9:54 am

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Post Post #122 (ISO) » Sun Apr 02, 2017 10:53 am

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Can we just drop it at this point?
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Post Post #123 (ISO) » Sun Apr 02, 2017 10:56 am

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In post 117, TheRealGin-N-Tonic wrote:Am I in a mafia game?
sending out role PMs to the entire site would actually be a decent April Fools
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Post Post #124 (ISO) » Sun Apr 02, 2017 11:15 am

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Yes this has been un global announced. A win for righteousness!
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