@PHM: You were probably the only one who was actually playing a rebel instead of shouting April Fools and flaming the whole time. But as winkio said, you were still mostly just shouting April Fools.
@Niche: If you consistently doubted whether it was a joke or not, then you have been fooled. You were still actively trying to ruin it though instead of just playing along and be a rebel or whatever. I can only say that you ruined the joke for us. At one point I was just fed up reading and censoring (heh, used winkio's account here xD) so I suggested to the mods to end it. Ironically we were discussing everything in IRC. Nobody even bothered to check IRC. xD
@stripe: I hope you're not too mad at us. It seemed realistic to you because you haven't been here from the start. A couple of people figured out where this was going even before we started. If you had been here from the beginning of the day, you would have noticed the inconsistencies in everything. We weren't even trying to cover things up. There's one thing I don't agree with NAMK, though. The best type of joke is not when people don't realize that it's a joke. The best type of April Fools joke is when people can't decide whether it's a joke or not. They keep thinking that it could be a joke, then they think it's serious again.
Quote from: winkio on April 01, 2011, 03:55:57 pm
Oh, and I don't even think the mods knew about this, but I let Blizz use my account for today as well, so we were switching off XD Which reminds me, time to change my password back.
This was mainly to keep Sub under control while winkio was asleep. Basically a good portion from the moment Sub posted his poll were from me. I think I did tell Ryex and maybe NAMK. I don't remember anymore. xD
All in all, all your apologies are accepted. We tried to keep the joke within reasonable boundaries so people weren't actually banned (except for Sub who couldn't obviously stand being ignored) and we hope that we haven't been too much trouble for you all.
Next year's joke will be less turbulent, we promise. This year was simply a unique opportunity for winkio to take over that we couldn't resist. We knew it would be risky and grand, but we did it anyway.