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JCirri  





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PostPosted: Sat Mar 21, 2009 3:10 am    Post subject: April Fools' Day Reply with quote

Alright, the first year we had the spontaneous Coke vs Pepsi thing break out, and last year we didn't really do anything except let users think they were not seeing a (non-existent) background theme and then changed all avatars to ¯\(°_o)/¯ icons for the day.

I'd like to put actual effort into brainstorming this year, so let me know if you've got any ideas.
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elx  





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PostPosted: Sat Mar 21, 2009 9:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

How about we unban IEatGlue, it should be good for a laugh or two.
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Ouzo  





Joined: 27 Jul 2007
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 22, 2009 12:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

elx wrote:
How about we unban IEatGlue, it should be good for a laugh or two.

He's already been browsing the forum for a while under a different account.

How about we lock and unlock every forum for 5 minutes of every hour of the day? That should confuse them.
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Sully  





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PostPosted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 8:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Maybe we should finally let the cat out of the bag that Deimos is Riz? They'll think it's just an April Fools joke =P
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TSorbera  





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PostPosted: Thu Mar 26, 2009 8:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

How bout we make all posts in the forums anonymous, only differentiated by user or staff. i.e. make no avatars or signatures appear and make it just say "A Member" or "A Staff Member" in place of the user name.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 2:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think it would be funny if we told everyone that all of their scores were "accidently" deleted and actually temporarily block access to the score data for the day.
Of course we would have a backup copy of everyone's data. We should have a big sticky thread about it on the front page and say something like "We are sorry to inform everyone that during one of our server updates the master file for the score submissions was corrupted and is unrecoverable. We should have the system back up and running soon but everyone will regrettably have to resubmit their scores with corresponding picture/video proofs"

Just imagine how their little hearts would sink!
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HylianHero  





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PostPosted: Wed Apr 01, 2009 1:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have an idea. What if we have a fake wiki thing? We can take a backup of every user page on the wiki and change the permissions so everyone can edit every page, and after April Fool's Day is over, we can go ahead and change it all back. Sounds pretty harmless to me.
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JCirri  





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PostPosted: Wed Apr 01, 2009 8:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

HylianHero wrote:
I have an idea. What if we have a fake wiki thing? We can take a backup of every user page on the wiki and change the permissions so everyone can edit every page, and after April Fool's Day is over, we can go ahead and change it all back. Sounds pretty harmless to me.

I like that best, simple and effective.

We'd need to do something to bring awareness to the fact that a change has occurred though. Perhaps we can get a trusted active user (LemonMeringue? footballtom?) to post a bug report that permissions have changed and then play things up publicly from there. The 6am backup is approaching soon, and I'll try to get everything in place by then. The backup has been known to cause site issues in the past, so it should add some credibility to the joke.
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JCirri  





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PostPosted: Wed Apr 01, 2009 11:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Okay, screw this.. I've tried to change the permissions and apparently messed things up quite badly (to the point that users were able to see staff pages on the wiki). After spending the last two hours correcting my problems, everything should be back to normal.

I have to be on campus in a few hours now and I'm dead tired, so I'm going to bed. Unfortunately I've got meetings all day and won't be back until late, but feel free to have fun and think up something else on your own.

Sorry this didn't work out as planned.
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 01, 2009 12:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

JCirri wrote:
Okay, screw this.. I've tried to change the permissions and apparently messed things up quite badly (to the point that users were able to see staff pages on the wiki). After spending the last two hours correcting my problems, everything should be back to normal.

I have to be on campus in a few hours now and I'm dead tired, so I'm going to bed. Unfortunately I've got meetings all day and won't be back until late, but feel free to have fun and think up something else on your own.

Sorry this didn't work out as planned.
JC are you still around? I can't get you on IRC...the staff forum is visible. We've got to get it hidden again quick! Maybe we can move them to the trash. I'll try with some of the topics and post links here so we can find them again.
http://www.scorehero.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=91327
http://www.scorehero.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=90080
http://www.scorehero.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=91234
Edit: Oh great, JC only made himself the moderator of this forum, we can't move anything. Anyone else have ideas?
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ManOfMrE  





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PostPosted: Wed Apr 01, 2009 12:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

This is viewable? How do you know?

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chemmajr, Chil, gtaivpc, ManOfMrE

Those are the current browsers on this board. Unless we did a recent promotion round, I don't see this being good.
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EWiggen  





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PostPosted: Wed Apr 01, 2009 1:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Uh, yeah, I could see this forum without even being logged in... this is bad. If any other mod reads this and has JC's phone number, call him ASAP. Doesn't Deimos have special access? Maybe he can take the website down until this is fixed.
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 01, 2009 2:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

EWiggen wrote:
If any other mod reads this and has JC's phone number, call him ASAP.
I'm on it...and no answer. >.<
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EWiggen  





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PostPosted: Wed Apr 01, 2009 2:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Damn. Well, just keep trying; that's the best we can do for now.

Perhaps we should start logging who comes into the forum, so we can hand out bans later? I dunno.

{edit: it appears that there is no way to log who accesses this forum, and in many cases, it could be accidental. I guess we can't really ban people.}
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 01, 2009 6:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ack! I just got up to check SH...what the hell happened?!

Just tried to text JC. He's not answering.
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