April Fools - Advance planning & ideas - CENSORED THREAD

[Leeza]

I swear the beforehand part was not in there before.

Of course it all makes sense now.

[Del Murder]

It better, or else I'll give you the beforehand!

[Big D]

Cid's recent rampage should provide plenty of fuel for idea #1.
I like the idea of playing with the "swear filter/staff abuse of power" disagreement. It'd be nice to make fun of the topics that Raistlin etc have been knotting their knickers over recently.
Might make them see it's not really so serious at all.

[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

I pretend to kill myself. Ta-dah.

[Yamaneko]

It's funny and original. I like it!

[Shlup]

We can't do the unbanning Baloki one because we did that, what... last year or the year before? Where we all pretended to be banned members, but I let Sugpo post for real? I enjoyed that greatly.

Del's idea sounds best. Or we could work with something dealing with "Cid's recent rampage" (muahaha), like he wants to let the rules go to pot and staff members leave because of that. I dunno.

Whatever you guys come up with is probably good.

[Xander]

I'm not really bothered either way on this. You guys do what you decide. =)

[Loony BoB]

Xander is far too evil, grumpy and just plain mean for me to work with so I step down, never to visit EoFF ever again. They'll never know!

But yeah, the style idea would probably work best. Who would step down? Unne probably would because I think he's said that if we lose the Blue style, he'll never post again... or something.

Now, if we were actually going to change the style, how would we go about it? Just change it, or make an announcement a couple of days beforehand? *dunno*

[Shlup]

If anyone takes the pink from me I will die.

[Del Murder]

The old vs. new style is a good idea, because that will generate a LOT of response from the members. The only problem is I don't know if I could tolerate the new style for a couple days.

[crono_logical]

At least you can still change if the avatar bit is on the top or the side, in your User CP

[Shlup]

I don't know if people're gonna believe that Sean would do that. Bleys and Raist 100% would not believe it. No one who knows Sean thinks he's that much of an ass.

[Del Murder]

Raist will believe it. Bleys may or may not, I don't have a good enough read on him to tell. I think it will depend on his mood.

Come up with a better rule if you can. I will do my best to.

Can I have permission to reveal our plan to eestlinc? He's great at coming up with stuff. He wouldn't buy any of it anyway.

[Shlup]

I really don't think enough people would believe it for it to be much good. Of course people that don't know Sean at all will probably believe it, but I don't think anyone else will.

Hmm... I'm thinking, but coming up short. I feel inclined to exploit Raist in some way.

I don't care if you tell eest or not, but wait for other people's opinions just 'cause I dunno if anyone's really intent on eest being one of the victims or not.

[Del Murder]

If they are they will be disappointed, but enough about that.

You knowing Sean makes you biased to think that no one could see him as an ass. Sean hasn't posted regularly for at least three years, and most members (including myself) don't have any sense of his personality. They would all buy it. Even the older members might be swayed to think he changed over the years, with the proper sugar coating. Of course, I wasn't around back then so I don't have a gauge into what the dynamic was, which is crucial to this analysis. And the other point is I don't want to turn the poor guy into a pawn for our evil bidding and make him look like this big hardass if he isn't cool with it, even if it is only for a couple days. We can actually avoid all this stuff by coming up with a very good corporate sounding reason for him to get rid of the other styles. I'll try to work on that right now.

If we really wanted to target Raistlin with our prank then I think the swear filter is the way to go. What are all the silly things that happen at FG that cause staff people to step down? They are a (fools) gold mine for that stuff. Yams, I'm putting you in charge of that one.

I keep thinking there's something else out there. Something so stupid, yet so believable, that it will create the biggest panty bunch that Eyeson has ever known.