Of course fiftychat decided to play along! Wasn't it fun staying online all night and day saying 'x is stupid, how can he believe this' 'zomg he's finally realised the truth' and so on? Or Virote faking his resignation from OT? Perf offering to buy CFC, and so on? It was fun to me at least.
Oh I am sure they are singing the "TROLOLOLOLOLO" song whilethe rest of usa handful of gullible teens are raging.
The joke itself was almost as funny as the panic it created amongst a few poor unsuspecting souls 
to everyone involved.
I can't remember the full post, but in one of the hidden topics, Eran of Arcadia had made a post that they should refrain from announcing the site change in fear that the users might think it was an April Fools joke.
That was actually the funniest part!
A few little nibbles, first school of fish right around 2am EDT, then the regulars start strolling in around 8am EDT, then the feeding frenzy started. (Yes, we were watching the entire time!)
Well, you definitely pulled some heart strings with your "rite of passage" post. Growing up here through high school, college and what has yet become was really great stuff. Obviously, some of it too personal for all eyes but thanks for sharing it with some of the mods who read it.Yeah, possibly because I found it through a march 31st "deleted" link in sitefeedback--not the first time I've seen deleted posts moved to wrong parts instead of deleted--I definitely fell for it. Nobody had been talking about it and I figured the breach would be closed if it got public and I wanted to keep reading. I didn't read critically enough the whole "ainwood-turner infraction", kind of glanced over it and figured I didn't get their in-joke.
Fortunately Whomp told me to edit my post and then of course when I leaked it to fiftychat they spotted it faster than anything. Cheezy didn't hardly clicked the link and was like "it's april fools. They wanted it found by fiftychat" and there was likeminded concurrence. Fiftychat, via Bill, leaked it to NESchat, and they spotted it right away too. It only takes 1 person in a group of 10 to let the whole group know... Bill and Cheezy from my view did the most work to pretend to believe it to spread it around. As Cheezy put it, it was up to fiftychat to make it believable for the rest of the forum.
At one point I was accused of being a mod-plant and while initially that was not the case, by the time of the accusation I ignored it
Sorry to aimee for stressing out, not sorry to the rest of ya
As I suspected it would be archived and you can find it here thanks to Bill3000.
Your right, thanks for pointing that out, and a huge thanks to Bill3000 for archiving this.
Eran of Arcadia said:
This all reminds me of something! Back in the days of yore, when I was a 14-year-old #civfanatics miscreant, I got you to search your own posts and post the link. Lo and behold, I could see your posts in the staff forum, or at least the first ~100 chars or so. I'd been trying to figure out ever since I found out about it what went on in the staff forum, and that made my day!That was actually the funniest part!
A few little nibbles, first school of fish right around 2am EDT, then the regulars start strolling in around 8am EDT, then the feeding frenzy started. (Yes, we were watching the entire time!)
CG's nearly 28, BrianShanahan2.There, fixed that for ya.Oh I am sure they are singing the "TROLOLOLOLOLO" song whilethe rest of usa handful of gullible teens are raging
Can't say it enough times. Laughed-my arse-off!!! One more time! One more time!SuperJay said:Kudos to the mod staff, that was hysterical. Loved it.
