Staff Planning Thread

[Shlup]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v54/ShlupQuack/beautifulsquid.gif

[18:26] Fonzie Amadeus> it was
[18:26] Fonzie Amadeus> probably Paul's doing
[18:26] Fonzie Amadeus> he's a real american hero he is

[18:29] @ShlupQuack> Poor Raistlin.
[18:29] Fonzie Amadeus> Everything
[18:29] @ShlupQuack> He doesn't deserve to be picked on.
[18:29] Fonzie Amadeus> lol yes he does
[18:29] @ShlupQuack> Psy is so mean.

[Wolf Kanno]

My god has this turned into something terribly amusing. I feel a bit bad for Mogi; but Raistlin and PuPu are just *snip*. It would be hilarious to hear Raistlin's conspiracy theory about what's going on. I also got some deep respect for Momiji, Jessweeee and Boko for taking all this so well. They all get banana stickers ;)

So who is left? Who hasn't "stepped down" or been "fired" yet.

[Shlup]

You, for one! Though you are not required to.

I calmed Mogi down in PM. Though after the 1st he may officially hate me. I hope he doesn't and we find a way to make amends to those who got sucked in a little too far. -_-;

[Psychotic]

I'm going to fire YOU Kanno!!!

[Shlup]

LOL

You're so cute when you're excited.

Ahaha, StumbleUpon just gave me this (http://www.fiverr.com/users/devonin/gigs/join-a-forum-youre-a-member-of-and-vehemantly-disagree-with-someone-you-dont-like-for-2-weeks-or-100-posts). xD

[Wolf Kanno]

Should I make a thread about being fired? You could always just "ban" me so no one can say for sure what happened or make up some crap about me making drama in the porn forum. ;)

[Psychotic]

So that's PuPu's angle.

EDIT: Hahaha ok sure why not, we'll do it tomorrow as today is Shlup's day.

[Shlup]

Hello ShlupQuack,

We at Eyes on Final Fantasy Forums would like to wish you a happy birthday today!

Fuck you, Eyeson!

I think the next few people to step down should do so without a word, personally. But do as you please.

[Wolf Kanno]

I would prefer whatever would make the joke more amusing.

[Shlup]

Tough to say at this point.

[Wolf Kanno]

The only thing I feel is we should wait a few days and let Schlup enjoy her fallout. ;)

[Samuraid]

Have you considered staying demoted on April 1st, until the very last hour of the day (Hawaii time, or something like that)?
It would certainly throw things off a bit, especially if many suspect this as an April Fools joke.
But, maybe that's not the point of all this. It's just fun to see Raistlin's bluff get called.

[Wolf Kanno]

I'm all for doing a belated April Fools joke out of this (Like April 2nd just so it doesn't get too out of hand). Not only to make the joke more entertaining and throw off the people who guessed it but to make next year more exciting cause they'll never be able to know what is what for next April Fools.

[Shlup]

Oh yeah, we totally have to wait until the end of the day.

[Wolf Kanno]

Should any respones be made for these threads in Private Feedback?

*snip*

*snip*

Just ignore them and wait for the reveal or make a mediocre response to add legitimacy to the joke?

[Shlup]

I'm trying to avoid lying to the nice people directly myself. I certainly wouldn't use those threads to stir up more drama or rumors, but if you want to say something to them then go for it.

[Wolf Kanno]

I didn't really want to respond, I just noticed them and was wondering what everyone else thoughts were.

[Del Murder]

No, we do our big reveal on April 1. That's how April Fools works. None of this April 2 crap.

[Shlup]

I think it's reasonable to point out that April Fools does not typically work like we do it anyway, what with starting months in advance. xD

But, yeah, April 1st. End of the day, yes, but the proper day nonetheless.

[Del Murder]

End of the day Pacific time, the official time zone of EoFF, right?

[Shlup]

Of course.

[Del Murder]

Ok I thought about it and this is how I think we should reward the people who participated in the CK contest.

Everyone who completed round 1 will get *snip*.

Everyone who completed round 2 will get *snip*. (including poor Breine who I singled out)

The 'final six' will all get *snip*.

We don't have to *snip*

[Loony BoB]

Sounds good. I like that.

[Shlup]

I would like to up the "*snip*" to *snip*.

[Loony BoB]

Even better!

Oooh, I wouldn't be against *snip*.

[Levian]

That's a very good idea. Momiji, Jessweeee and Gobo would all be very capable of that.

[Rantz]

*snip*

Yes to all of these. We definitely need to show them some love after all this. xD

[Wolf Kanno]

Sounds like a plan, they really did bust their asses.

[Del Murder]

We don't need to give them any *snip*. We can *snip* though. Three friends is fine, but how many people completed round 2? Are we going to end up with *snip*?

[Psychotic]

I don't think they need to *snip* and thus make it less special. Maybe one friend.

[Psychotic]

oh also, if we DO decide to *snip*, announce them as the winner of the CK contest and try to play like only shlup (maybe Del) quitting was the joke on MArch 31st or something then bring everyone else back later.

[Shlup]

Okay, one friend.

All back at the same time! They'll see me and Del, and then Shiny, and then tuh, and then Lev, and then Mulley and their minds will start to blow.

[Shiny]

The fact that some people are still believing this is shocking.

[Loony BoB]

foa too! I suppose we should officially ask those people before April 1st. I'll ask Mulley! Who wants to ask Lev!?

[Psychotic]

I also asked Hsu if he wanted to be fake knighted and he said he was cool with it. So yeah.

[Levian]

a couple of people just asked why Lightening got banned. If you want a reason, you could always say she posted naked fanart of Lightning the character. ;) or whatever comes to mind.

[Psychotic]

I just fired Rye and Wolf Kanno. Feel free to fire me for it once people get over the "omg, NO CID'S KNIGHTS?? ROFL!" thing.

can I also do Task 7? "Anyone can participate. Dudes - send me money. Girls - send me photos of your boobs. Everyone who successfully completes this task will become the new Cid's Knights." and then BoB can show up in that thread, act disgusted that I am now corrupt and fire me.

[Loony BoB]

I would prefer to simply demote you as a "slight punishment" thing, and re-promote them. That would be what I would do in such a situation!

[Loony BoB]

Oh, and this would be a fantastic time to rename Cid's Engineers to Cid's Knights since there are no Cid's Knights. The downside will be the immense disappointment that the site staff will have once they revert to Cid's Engineers from Cid's Knights on April Fools. :(

[Del Murder]

Let's not disappoint the Site Staff more than we already have.

Miriel wants to be fake knighted too. HOW FAR BACK DOES THIS GO?

[Loony BoB]

xDDDD srsly.

Someone get RSL back.

[Loony BoB]

Okay I put Rye and WK back into CK and demoted Psy to CK. My reasoning is that I saw he did it and until I get a decent explanation as to why they were demoted Psy is no longer an admin. I have to go home soon so I probably won't get your explanation that quickly!

[Rantz]

Jessweeee♪ asked in chat if it was a joke, and I said Psy had done it for some weird ass reason and that BoB was acting really angry. :greenie:

[Loony BoB]

look at me posting from my phone! i say we should completely reverse the staff on april 1st - remove all remaining staff and promote all the old staff, both fake and real.

[Del Murder]

Throughout the day we should just completely reshuffle the roster over and over again.

Keep everyone in Invisible CK and Invisible Admin. Then make Fake CK and Fake Admin user groups, which are just Registered with the title. Make those appear on the forums leader page. Then who ever we put in those groups will appear on the leaders page but will not have real powers, and we keep our true powers the whole time.

[Loony BoB]

And at the end of the day they guess who is really on staff and who isn't. Fake knight raist and all. watch the different reactions of those who are in and out of the knowledge of what's really going on. :D

[theundeadhero]

I really think on April 1st we should reknight everyone, *snip* and I guess possibly *snip*, and then fake knight people from the contest. People will be confused as to who's a real knight or fake (bonus because they will wonder if the old knights are really knights now) :p

[Shlup]

Maximum lulz:

All of us are inviso-adminned/CK'd by the night of the 31st; Raistlin is the only [fake] CK.

Late into the day on April 1st re-admin/knight everyone, *snip*, and announce "April Fools!"

I think the fake knightings are superfluous though, personally.

[Loony BoB]

Who is "really" Knighted aside... how about something similar to this...

31st March
Psychotic
Loony BoB
Kishi
Roogle
Rantzien
Rye
Wolf Kanno

AF: 12am to 6am - a complete change-over of staff with every previous staffer no longer on staff. Throw in a few extras while we're at it such as Hsu, Miriel, Mullet, etc.
Flying Mullet
Leeza
rubah
ShlupQuack
Blues Agent
eestlinc
foaffles
hero
Hsu
Levian
Miriel
Necronopticous
Shiny
Zexy

AF: 6am to 12pm - Lightening and Livingdeadgirl rule the world, with Site Staff taking over alongside the contestants.
Lightening
Livingdeadgirl
Baloki
Fonzie
Goldenboko
Jessweeeeding
JKTrix
Loony BoB
Momiji
qwertysaur
Roogle
Sagensyg
Shiny

AF: 12pm to 6am - EVERYONE!
Flying Mullet
Kishi
Leeza
Lightening
Livingdeadgirl
Loony BoB
Psychotic
Rantzien
Roogle
rubah
ShlupQuack
Baloki
Blues Agent
eestlinc
foaffles
Fonzie
Goldenboko
hero
Hsu
Jessweeeeding
JKTrix
Levian
Miriel
Momiji
Necronopticous
qwertysaur
Rye
Sagensyg
Shiny
Wolf Kanno
Zexy

AF: 6pm to 12am - nobody at all...
--nobody at all--

* unless he remains banned, in which case obviously he's out.

Just throwing out ideas of how to work it rather than it ending up completely scattered and ending up kind of a letdown. Obviously we can improvise if needed, though, but I think that it would be neat to do the last two in particular, with all and then none, so people can start to guess if anything is actually going to happen.

[Shlup]

If you're willing to do all that shuffling around then go for it.

[Loony BoB]

I am if someone else can do it during the "off" hours.

[Del Murder]

The first group should be everyone who recently left as far back as Miriel. Then after that we just go crazy.

[Shlup]

Look at that sass. You're so off the wall, Tony.

BoB's schedule leads us into an April 2nd prank ending. Thumbs down; move it up a day. I still vote Raisin should be the only staffer for a few hours before we put up the actual roster.

Someone set up the fake CK/admin groups! I'm still on birthcation.

[Rye]

I am sooo confused!

[Loony BoB]

The first group should be everyone who recently left as far back as Miriel. Then after that we just go crazy.
You add 'em in, feel free. :)

Shlup: You can shorten the ending pretty easily by having the last hours only be 4 hours rather than 6. It's pretty easy. :p

I'd only have Raistlin as the only staffer if he's not banned. If he's banned, I'd rather leave him out of it.

[theundeadhero]

Aw man we can't ban Raistlin for any of this.

[Shlup]

I would like to reiterate my position from the WML: public IRC trial. The People v. Raistlin

[Shiny]

http://cdn.videogum.com/img/thumbnails/videos/qqmiigy92qu.jpg

:bou::bou::bou::bou: just got real.

[Del Murder]

Ok I created two new user groups: Cid's Knight and Administrator. Please do not confuse them with Cid's Knight<b>s</b> and Administrator<b>s</b>, which are our real groups.

Cid's Knight and Administrator are the fake staff groups. They are just the Registered group except they have the shiny title and show up on the forums leaders page. As you may notice I have already moved our two remaining CK's into invisible CK and marked them as part of the fake CK group. I hesitate doing that for the remaining admins because I don't know if it will cause a problem not having anyone in the 'Administrators' group. But it should be fine.

On April 1 just click anyone you want into the fake staff groups to create your custom staff!

[Psychotic]

Someone is totally going to confuse the two.

(this is why I do not volunteer to move people into these groups!)

[Del Murder]

Someone named Loony BoB who let edczxcvbnm see the staff forum once? Yes.

[Shlup]

OMG why did you make them similar? I'm never going to remember that.

[Del Murder]

Well I wanted to call it Fake CK but the name is what shows up on the Forums Leaders page. Maybe I can put an HTML tag in there.

[Flying Mullet]

I'm so glad someone else is managing all of this, it's so confusing! xD

[Del Murder]

Ok I changed the 'fake' user groups to The Cid's Knights and The Administrators. That is less confusing, right? All that is left is to move all the admins still 'officially' on staff into both The Administrators and Administrators (invisible).

[Shlup]

That should work.

[Del Murder]

So I tried to move everyone into the right groups but it failed. For some reason I can't edit Loony BoB's profile (you bastard). So BoB you do it now.

[Loony BoB]

Ahahaha. I may have to get home before I can fix that. Alternatively anyone who knows what they're doing and has forums FTP access can get in touch with me and I can walk them through the process.

[Rantz]

Me and Lynx are going to be switching names and profiles for April Fools. Normally I'd just let everyone figure out for themselves, but with my being an admin and with the day promising some confusion already I'm just letting you know so you don't get confused while switching around titles and stuff.

[Del Murder]

Yeah that's what we need for tomorrow: more confusion.

[Loony BoB]

Oh God. I'm not keen on switching of names for various reasons, personally, but that's just me being anal... basically if someone sends a personal PM to one of the usernames then the other person ends up getting the information, and, well, yeah, that's potentially pretty nasty.

[Del Murder]

Oh lighten up BoB. Go fix your profile so I can switch your user group you cheater.

[Loony BoB]

I said I'm not keen, I didn't say I was going to do anything to stop it. Just... uhm... I'll be extra careful when changing usergroups around for you!

[Flying Mullet]

I had great plans to create a couple of sql php pages to upload which I could kick off to give me admin access, then remove everyone else's admin access, then update the passwords so no one could access anything. Then I could create a Skynet admin account with various models of Terminators as CKs. Anyone who spoke up against them would be move the the blood red "TERMINATED" group, which would be like banned. Then a mysterious John Conner account would PM some of the admins who weren't terminated with hints as to the passwords to get back in and help them restore power and defeat Skynet.

Then I realized that this was a :bou::bou::bou::bou:-load of work and I have no care to put that much time into it.

It was either than or do something similar with Shredder as the lone admin and 20 Foot Soldiers as CKs.

But then that was too much work.

So I had a sandwich and all was good. :)

[Del Murder]

Oh I get it. Someone might go to make 'Rantzien' an admin again after this is all over and they might end up admining Lynx!

[Loony BoB]

I thought that went without saying. xD

[Del Murder]

Well if you let me put everyone in the hidden group it won't matter. Just do a search on all the hidden admins and you will get all of us, regardless of name!

[Loony BoB]

Yeah. I'll also be careful! xD I hope someone else will help during the American hours as I won't be online all day, obviously enough.

[Rantz]

If in doubt, just hover over the link leading to Rantzien's profile in the Admin CP. My userid is 22222, so it's easy to recognise!

[Shlup]

Just for this Raistlin payback bull:bou::bou::bou::bou:, I'm Senior Site Staff now. Suck on that.

[Del Murder]

So we should totally turn it back on Raistlin and tell him that he's really going to be banned because he did actually post the pictures. And then ban him.

[Shlup]

Now you're thinking like a winner.

Blame BoB.

[Loony BoB]

You can blame me 'cause I did it. Of course, Murd was in on it, so I've banned him, too. :aimsun: See you on April 2nd, sucker.

[Loony BoB]

Alright, phase one finally sorted out! Next one should be far easier now that I've got my head around the groups.

[Shlup]

Are we going to release this thread after all is said and done? If so I will probably have time to go through and censor it tomorrow night.

Who's calling April Fool's? Someone they wouldn't expect.

[Loony BoB]

You don't need to say it out loud, really. But whoever is online in the last couple of hours of the day would be good. In the meantime, let's see if they can figure out who is and isn't really on staff.

[Shlup]

I'm an Administrator, Former Staff, and Senior Site Staff? Nice.

I'll fiddle with this tomorrow. *sleeps*

[Loony BoB]

Oops. Fixed!

[Loony BoB]

For anyone doing this, all you should ever now need to change is the primary usergroup. I've set all of us so that we have a secondary usergroup that allows us to be invisible CK's or Admins.

So basically you change the primary group for users between the following...
The Administrators - ie, the ones that appear as admins.
The Cid's Knights - ie, the ones that appear as CK's.
Former Staff - ie, the ones that were once admins/CK's.
Banned - by Mods/Admins - Lightening
Registered - for all the others (Site Staff, CK comp contestants, livingdeadgirl)

[Flying Mullet]

I'm so confused...

But I like the multiple titles. :)

[Loony BoB]

Argh, not you too! Hopefully that's the last of you lot...

EDIT: Good, it is. Stupid bucketloads of secondary groups...

[theundeadhero]

Mines still three-titled.

[Loony BoB]

Okay, you're the last one. I've double checked Lev, foa, eest, Zexy, Shiny and also the former staff additional users in case I've missed anyone else. :p

[Loony BoB]

I'm gonna start the second change now. Next change in about four hours, I guess.

[Loony BoB]

As to my punishment, I understand and accept it. Some of the things I did were unforgiveable and broke cardinal staff rules. As you know I was considering leaving anyway, so maybe the two year break will do me some good. I just want you to know that I loved working with you guys. See you on the other side.
I exDee'd and told him I'd see him on April 2nd. But he did break pretty solid rules about not telling people what we say in here... :shifty:

[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

So who's <a href="http://forums.eyesonff.com/general-chat/131092-2002.html">this kid</a>?

[Psychotic]

marick

[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

That's boring. :colbert:

[theundeadhero]

Wesley completely expects the joke ban, so leave it for a week to make him start to worry. He thinks it'll be lifted tomorrow.

[Flying Mullet]

Excellent idea. :)

[Shlup]

As to my punishment, I understand and accept it. Some of the things I did were unforgiveable and broke cardinal staff rules. As you know I was considering leaving anyway, so maybe the two year break will do me some good. I just want you to know that I loved working with you guys. See you on the other side.
I exDee'd and told him I'd see him on April 2nd. But he did break pretty solid rules about not telling people what we say in here... :shifty:

Oh, barely.

[Flying Mullet]

Del didn't tell him about when I admitted to having three nipples in here, did he?

[Loony BoB]

Probably. Fucker probably just gave Raistlin his account, I bet. What a cock.

[Psychotic]

The worst part isn't him sharing information, it's that he shared it with Raistlin.

As I said to PuPu, where is your self-respect?

[Psychotic]

btw suggested punishment for Del Murder:

We change his name, and ask Baloki on suggestions on what to change it to. Then do admin code hax to his profile (ie whatever BoB did to himself) so that he can't change it.

Everybody agreed?

[Shlup]

Hell yes agreed.

[eestlinc]

what's going on with Del Murder?

[Psychotic]

He sold us out!

PS: I "Knighted" Freya and banned Jiro. Just so you guys know! :}

[theundeadhero]

*snip*

[eestlinc]

good on him! I was considering posting a thread last week telling everyone what was going on and all details of the staff prank. I didn't because, as some like to say, I "cba."

[eestlinc]

*snip*

[Psychotic]

just whip out your cock to distract her. All women stop crying when presented with 50lbs of man meat.

[Shiny]

He sold us out!

PS: I "Knighted" Freya and banned Jiro. Just so you guys know! :}

You're not my favorite admin anymore. :colbert:

Oh wait, 50lbs you say? You're my favorite! :heart:

[Shlup]

"Anymore"?! Fine. I see how it is.

We had a good run. Raistlin got us back pretty good. I shall prepare this thread for release.

[Flying Mullet]

Holy crap, when did :p happen? :eek: