April Fools Gone Wrong

mcwarren4 · Post by **mcwarren4** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 8:11 pm

Don't have much time atm, but I think you are being a little narrow-minded to think that the intended joke was the only thing that can be gleaned from what happened...

TheVoid37 · Post by **TheVoid37** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 8:19 pm

Yes I am narrow minded, lets just leave it at that.

MadAccountant · Post by **MadAccountant** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 8:28 pm

I know the main indicator about the joke was the admin action. However the drama that unfolded was about two points, 1 - how should the admins behave and does the community have any say in it, and 2 - stacking really polarizes this community. It's incredibly naive to think that 100% of it wasn't related to stacking. The extreme positions you're talking about (pitchforks etc) was related to people's ferocity (for lack of a better word) defending what the admins had done, not the fact that they acted unilaterally.

QUOTE He is aware. It's just one of the things that drove him over. Its not really BV or TE I think its more the fact that they did something so incredibly out of character and so obviously wrong and then to have a majority of the community support it, is what scares many of us, I know it did me.[/quote]

You can read this a few ways I suppose. Either that the majority of the community blindly supports the admin or that they really really liked the policy. Why Shiz left I don't really know and for what it's worth I do regret the loss. When I read the comment I thought it was more about the community liking the policy and as a result I made the comments I did.

TheVoid37 · Post by **TheVoid37** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 9:09 pm

In all honesty I was just looking for an excuse to use pitchforks and torches in a sentence. /smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile.gif" />

What got me was to use an analogy, It was like some young punk was beating the living snought out of an old lady and people were on the side lines cheering him on because they didn't like her for some reason.

The Admins figured it would go over easily as a joke as they expected to not find such actions amongst their community, but instead they did.

Why the whole thing left me speechless.

Anyways, its done and over and I won't post again as I would love to see it just dissappear. . . . sadly I don't think it will.

sob_larry · Post by **sob_larry** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 9:53 pm

LOL GT_QF_FAN / BuysCmVsRix .... priceless lol

P.s. Tiger = 0 kb for 1 week .... =) ...

mcwarren4 · Post by **mcwarren4** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 12:00 am

sob_larry wrote:QUOTE (sob_larry @ Apr 1 2008, 04:53 PM) LOL GT_QF_FAN / BuysCmVsRix .... priceless lol
P.s. Tiger = 0 kb for 1 week .... =) ...

God that is SO true larry. I do think that world hunger could be solved by exactly those means. But do you think the silk stockings are necessary?

sob_larry · Post by **sob_larry** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 12:15 am

Silk stockings, a bullwhip and of course .. . . ...... MORE COWBELL BRUDDA !!!!! `4`4`4` =)..

minigun · Post by **minigun** » Mon Apr 01, 2013 9:35 am

I miss allegiance drama...not really.

DonKarnage · Post by **DonKarnage** » Mon Apr 01, 2013 1:07 pm

so this is why we can't have nice things.

Mastametz · Post by **Mastametz** » Mon Apr 01, 2013 4:41 pm

I had no idea any of this happened. Was banned at the time (which is ironic because I was banned in the aftermath of another one of TE's schemes in which he staged a temporary admin crackdown on the playerbase to push some agenda later - resulting in a public outcry/players banned)

sounds familiar