April Fools - Advance planning & ideas - CENSORED THREAD

[crono_logical]

They won't say it's a copout when this thread is made public though (minus certain bits) - if only because of the dates of the posts in here

[RSL]

Are we actually going to do that, though?

[Del Murder]

I don't think this thread should be public. What 'bits' do we eliminate? Who determines that?

[eestlinc]

anyone volunteering to go through the 900-odd posts to clean it up?

I should probably keep my mouth shut on that, being the newbie and all...

[Yamaneko]

Remember I told you about hazing the newbie knights, eest? Well, Thread Tools > Move / Copy. See you in a few days.

[eestlinc]

haha, I'm not a knight yet, and I don't have that power.

[crono_logical]

I wouldn't mind re-reading this thread some weekend, I think it'd be amusing Didn't we say earlier about deleting private-type things like LJ entries etc.? I think mention of ***CENSORED*** would need to be deleted too. Might be best to only keep posts directly related to the ruse, and how we came up with the various ideas. And maybe pure spam I do think it needs to be more than one person though to double check things.

[Loony BoB]

It would probably take a while but I would probably be okay with going through a copy of the thread and eliminating all sorts of names and offensive areas and whatnot. Depends how things go.

[m4tt]

I already hid my LJ entry because that's just how I am. If I really had left staff I wouldn't want to talk about it a day or two later, so I just made it private so people would leave me alone. *pretending like it never happened*

[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

I think it's a good idea to snip some things out of this thread and then put it where everyone can see it. Best to leave an uncut copy of it in here, though.

[Loony BoB]

That's the plan.

Take out Feedback tomorrow, Roogle. Even some people who have no idea what's going on are at the least suggesting that Feedback is full of crap.

[RSL]

I'm starting to like the idea of them seeing a heavily censored version of this thread. As I think someone mentioned earlier, it's quite possible that people won't believe that this is an April Fool's joke unless we show them some proof.

I wish people would stop bringing up that stupid snow penis, though.

[crono_logical]

Just tell them to take it and shove it up their rear end or something

[Big D]

[q=RSL]I'm starting to like the idea of them seeing a heavily censored version of this thread. As I think someone mentioned earlier, it's quite possible that people won't believe that this is an April Fool's joke unless we show them some proof.[/q]That should work fine. We just need to delete all personal attacks and direct quotes from private LJ entries (except for BoB's "monumental breakdown in staff discipline" quote from Raist), and then everyone'll have no choice but to believe.

I'm kind of concerned about how people will respond to having been duped, though.

[eestlinc]

we certainly run the risk of upsetting a few members, as is the nature of such pranks. I think if we post this thread and reveal that we were playing roles that will be best. Besides, we can say we have learned a lot about ourselves and each other, which should be reflected in a better staff starting in April.