Mocked up some fake "Sponsored Links" from a google search on stuff not quite appropriate for the forum and placed them on all forum pages.

I also switched on the reputation system and claimed we'd allow people to "vote" other members into a "troll booth".

Worked very well.

I had to do something big since this was my first April Fools prank on them. I will back it off a little next year. :banana:

I didn't do anything. April 1 was just another day...

I know a webmaster that announced his site was closing down, had three or four of his users immediately place orders for his domain name. When he found out they did, he was hurt, when they found out he was only fooling they were hurt... Wasn't pretty. They stopped coming to his site, and he bounced them cause he was peeved (they'd left ads on his site that they were taking the domain name and the show would go on). When others found out he bounced them (for trying to take his domain name and sending out ads on his site) they got peeved and boycotted... He was peeved at the emails they sent, bounced those people, more emails, more peeved people.. Nobody laughing, nobody visiting, nobody coming back to see that it was all a big April Fools joke.
Sometimes those April Fools jokes backfire.

the dir="rtl" is the best.

Thanks,
Mat

My Husband went into my site and put up a copyright noticed and the site had been shut down due to illegal stuff he did it to look like the mircrosoft shutdown all legal like even I was convinced I called our lawyer to ask how they could do that and was getting info and 100 phone calls from members plus msn going nuts before I looked at what day it was so needless to say he got me and my whole community!!

I was happy to see the outpour of my members who were wanting to send me donations for legal fees etc anything to get the site back open :)

I did that for only a few minutes.
Another one I did was to use for a few minutes at a time.

Under Additional CSS Definitions

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What would have been cool is to have a script that would add it for 3 minutes at a time every hour or randomly during the day. Having it all day would not have been funny at all.

We couldn't pull off much sense we have a tough crowd...but we did do a little bit. One of my staff modified vB a bit to display the following message to any member who logged in after 12:00am April 1st

http://www.adminfusion.com/public/aprilfools.jpg

The image was only shown once per member and ended with a link to this thread. We also set up a redirect of 10 seconds in case somebody didn't see the link, they were sure to reach the April Fools message. After a member had already seen it once, he/she would not see it again.

Worked perfectly...we also coordinated it with our monthly newsletter so we had even more people log into the forums that day than average :)

I gave my users a new arcade game to play for a day:

http://file.sugarqube.com/Cards/jblo...wf?PL=L400x300

warning: sick

i put A E I O and U on the censor list on my forums, to be replaced with X's, all day :D

so there was posts like, whxt thx hxll xs gxxng xn?!!?

LOL