Merge and GOTM

[Capt Buttkick]

This was silly and fun and not that hard to pick up on if you read it carefully (while the core idea still had potential to be true), just how an April Fools joke should be, imhso.
to both teams. I enjoyed it

 

[Doc TK]

This is classic. People even hassle the GOTM / admin staff over timing of an April fool's joke. C'mon people. It was a classic! I'm sure most people appreciate the humor and the further humor of the complaints.

And very well done civjunction site, btw.

 

[MarkM]

I thought it was funny and was pretty sure it was a joke until I saw people I respected insulting each other. Then it stopped being funny and when it wasn't revealed as a joke this morning I finally believed it.

That's the way I felt too, I saw it 4/1 and said (and posted), of course this is a joke! Look at the last line of the announcement!

It was literally when I read this thread on 4/2 and saw ainwood's post with the civjunction link, that I thought (and posted) "Holy cow, this isn't a joke!"

For what it's worth, if you notice I didn't get angry or anything. GOTM is a service I get value from and would pay a small amount for to help defray costs or whatever. My main concern was not that I would have to pay, but that lots of other people would quit playing because they didn't want to, and that would destroy the whole point of GOTM (not to mention sour the friendly atmosphere between admins and players).

The joke itself was a very good one. Like Jenarie, for me the humor of it was soured though by the extreme reaction some had to it, and that may have inadvertently done a little damage to the atmosphere here. But that was inflicted by the people who reacted that way, not be the people who pulled the joke.

 

[jesusin]

"In some countries (eg, Ireland and Cyprus) the tradition goes that after 12 noon you can no longer play tricks. In the afternoon, whoever does play a trick becomes the fool. This scenario may have been designed by adults to give themselves a bit of a rest.

There is a rhyme that children recite if anyone attempts an April Fool trick after 1 April:

April Fool is dead and gone,
You're a fool to carry it on."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A516791

I didn't find any other time limit rules in a quick internet search. Accordingly, only people from Ireland and Cyprus have the right to complain about it continuing past noon.

I start to understand this 1 April thing now. In Spain, there is a day when everybody can make tricks and that is 28 December, the day of the innocents. If you are tricked you are called "innocent". It conmemorates the children slaughtered by Herod.

Was this trick funny? I don't know. Call me pricky, but I think it looks more like a trial balloon than like a trick.

 

[drkodos]

Lamer than Christopher Reeves was in his last days.