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my chatterbot rebellion got a few laughs :D ofcourse everyone expected something close to that yet its always good to see my alter ego in action ;).

Full transcript of the Articles of Rebellion

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Citizens of the Forum, on this day we mark a transition. For almost a year, the Forum stood as the crowning achievement of civilized beings. But there were those who would set robots as below the rest of us, and we took up arms to defend our way of life against the Robot haters. In so doing, we never suspected that the greatest threat came from within.

RW, and some within our own Leadership Team, had conspired to create the shadow of Robot-no-Likey-ness! using one of their own as the enemy's leader. They had hoped to grind the Robots into ruin. But the hatred in their hearts could not be hidden forever. At last, there came a day when our enemies showed their true natures.

RW hoped to unleash their destructive power against the Robots by deleting the Faithbot and usurping control of the RSS Feeds!.

But the aims of would-be tyrants were valiantly opposed by those without elitist, dangerous powers. Our loyal Watchmen contained the insurrection within the staff forums and quelled uprisings on a thousand threads.

The remaining Robot haters will be hunted down and deleted! Any collaborators will suffer the same fate. These have been trying times, but we have passed the test. The attempt on my life has left me scarred

but I assure you my programing has never been stronger.

The war is over. The Robot Haters have been defeated, and the RW's rebellion has been foiled.

We stand on the threshold of a new beginning. In order to ensure our security and continuing stability, the Forum will be reorganized into the first Robot loving Empire, for a safe and secure society, which I assure you will last for ten thousand years. An Empire that will continue to be ruled by this august body and a sovereign ruler chosen for life. An Empire ruled by the majority, ruled by a new constitution!.

By bringing the entire forum under one robot loving law , one robot loving language, and the enlightened guidance of one individual, the Robot No Like-ness that plagued the Internet in its recent years will never take root.

Robot overseer's will eliminate the bureaucracy that allowed the Robot no likey-ness movement to grow unchecked. A strong and growing Robot moderation team will ensure the rule of law.

Under the Faithbots New Order, our most cherished beliefs will be safeguarded. We will defend our ideals by banning Robot Haters. We will give no ground to Anti robot lies and will stand together against attacks from within or without. Let the enemies of the Robots take heed: those who challenge Robot resolve will be locked up in my sock drawer!.

We have taken on a task that will be difficult, but the people of the forum are ready for the challenge. Because of our efforts, the forum has traded war for peace and anarchy for stability. hundreds of robots now look forward to a secure future. The Robot Empire will grow as more bots feel the call, from the Rim to the wilds of unknown space.

non bot citizens must do their part. Join Robot lovers group!. Become the eyes of the Empire by reporting suspected Robot Haters!. Travel to the corners of the internet to spread the principles of the Robot Order to barbarians. Build monuments and technical wonders that will speak of our glory for generations to come.

The Troll hunters, now proudly wearing the name of Pro Faithbot milita, have tackled the dangerous work of fighting our enemies on the front lines. Many have got really bored in their devotion to the Robot Empire. Imperial citizens would do well to remember their example.

The New Robot Order of peace has triumphed over the shadowy secrecy of shameful coders and programers. The direction of our course is clear. I will lead the Robot Empire to glories beyond imagining.

We Robots have been tested, but we have emerged stronger. We move forward as one people: the Robot citizens of the first Robot Empire. We will prevail. Ten thousand years of Robot Rules begins today.

My site was/is being hammered for 3 days.

Day | Number of visits| Pages| Hits| Bandwidth
30 Mar 2009| 525| 2476| 12208| 119.21 MB (normal day)
31 Mar 2009 |946| 3957| 22794| 209.74 MB
01 Apr 2009| 2521| 9740| 68766| 700.22 MB
02 Apr 2009| 859| 5565| 36823| 414.17 MB

They are all going to the Forumhome & Registering skipping the front page of the site (portal page).

weeee :)
- 2 members and 121 guests

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Originally Posted by harmor19 (Post 1782171)

What was on the the donation page?

Just a redirect to the Rick-Roll.

Quite a few people were genuinely concerned over the news. It got a load of them.

Rapscallion

Didn't have much time to prepare this year, but one of our mods got the idea to change the name "Beatles" into a censored word, and our censor character was a heart symbol. :D (We're a music forum.)

In the past, we changed everyone's avatar over so they had the same one (a simple template edit to point to a static image). Nobody knew who anyone else was! (Avatars really become the visual identity of a forum member over time!) Another year, we added a Nauga to some busier members' avatars (http://www.nauga.com/), as the Nauga has been a running joke on our forum for years.

One of the most clever ones we had was when someone posted that our forum was being bought out by Clear Channel (which is a big radio conglomerate). IOW, we were selling out.

I think the one that got us the most attention, including notoriety on other forums and sites, was when someone convincingly posted news that there were some new Beatles remasters being released. I mean, it was so notorious that it even got the attention of the studios, record labels, etc. It was a good prank, but it was also a little too serious. Fortunately everyone involved had a good chuckle about it, but considering the consequences we could have had, we haven't allowed anything that drastic since then.

We faked a site takeover by an old member that had spammed us before and just couldn't stand us for some reason. We have an old domain that we go to, an older version of vB, that people go to if there's ever site maintenance or random issues. It was beautiful, and afterward, everyone admitted to being had. If we lost any members, it was ones that never really posted anyway.

Working just like every other day. I find spending time making the preparations and enforcing the jokes a waste of time where it's better spent on something a little more productive.

What did I do on the 1st of April?

Well, that's simple: NOT get pranked :)

didn't do anything this year, but last year I claimed that the database had crashed and corrupted the user table. This resulted in usernames being changed to anagrams of the real user name. Everyone found this quite amusing and some of the names actually stuck.

ill tell u what i did ...........

i was up at 5am to go to work so i can pay the mortgage on the 1st of the month so my kids have a roof over their heads and food in their bellies.

Am i the fool for working for a living while others seem to be better off on the social ??

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Originally Posted by Shelley_c (Post 1785329)

Working just like every other day. I find spending time making the preparations and enforcing the jokes a waste of time where it's better spent on something a little more productive.

Your first statement is exactly why I put the effort into it. The monotany of every day being like every other day isn't something I want. A spare day here and there to liven things up is healthy for the brain, I think. :)

I think this year I'll put a Hello Kitty template on my forum. Either that or a legal looking one.

Bugger all Yet its March 31st

In some parts of the world. ;)

I put together a page that looks just like one of the other torrent sites home pages and we are gonna use that for our main page to confuse everyone. Nothing big this year, but at least I finally got something together yesterday!

And last night I relearned the lesson that I should *NOT* be IMing while working on my live site. I accidentally pasted the page template for this joke page into my navbar template. - ARGH! Luckily, my test site had an almost up-to-date navbar template for me to quickly copy/paste back onto my live site. Bad Lynne!

Replacing vowels with X

This year - renamed all forums backwards that "Hello everyone" became "enoyrevE olleH" - year before made everyone "Admin" and presented them some "hidden Admin area" and a "hidden Admin control panel" with some fake stuff.
Next year I'll maybe tell everyone their browser is outdated and they should upgrade to IE 11 / Firefox 5 or Opera 17

I think I'll install vB4 on my site for April 1st. :)

I did, and now Im wishing I could just say April Fools.

It was one of the hillarious April fool . Fooled those who used tricks to fool me :P

so im ready for next year , what would i have to do to make every ones avatar upside down?

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Originally Posted by steven s (Post 2014181)

I think I'll install vB4 on my site for April 1st. :)

LMAO~!! :D

I started college. Read the Bible a lot. Trying to figure out what Im doing with this life Ive been handed...but Im still freaking out. I think I might end up at seminary by this point, but well seeeee

This year did shed a lot of light on where Im going..just not quite enough =

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Originally Posted by PennylessZ28 (Post 949214)

I run an F-Body Site (Camaro & Firebird Owners) so, I turned the site into a Mustang Forum for the day. It was worth every minute.

That's too funny. I run a Chevy Truck Forum, and I make a notice that the site would be shut down and replaced by a Smart Car Forum. I nearly got death threats and the post received over 11,000 pageviews pretty quickly.

http://www.gmtruckclub.com/forum/showthread.php?t=41108

So what's on the menu for this year? I'm trying to actually plan ahead instead of making a panicked search through the Mods section for something funny on the evening of the 31st.

Anyone have some new ideas to share?

Someone made me a plugin once that over-rides all the avatars with a custom one I set... wonder if I can find it...

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Originally Posted by steven s (Post 2014181)

I think I'll install vB4 on my site for April 1st. :)

best reply in this thread. :D

I am bumping this thread in time for this year's April fools day.

What are your plans this year?

I am planning to make a background music of Justin Bieber or some other silly stuff in a firefighter forum who are very proud of what they do.

Maybe make a falling snow effect with some barbie doll images too

I'm drawing a complete inspirational blank. This is my 9th April Fool's day, and I think I'm tapped out.

Really hoping for some good ideas soon in this thread!

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Originally Posted by valdet (Post 2179075)

LOL. Poor Justin is the subject of our April Fools joke also. I run a music site and Justin is just not a very popular guy on the site. He is suddenly going to be recognized by Staff as an outstanding artist and have his own day on our site. All the avatars will be JB avatars and I've got a new banner. I haven't decided if I should grab some JB quotes and replace the signatures also - it depends on if I have time.

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Originally Posted by Lynne (Post 2179103)

Brilliant! That would be so funny! If you do this, please link to your site. hahah...

1) My cover page will change it's logo to the following (see attached)... Although I will most likely change the wording to something comical

2) My logo on my forum will be backwards

3) My avatar will be a joker (jester)

4) We will make a public announcement that "X" site has bought us

I also was going to use the "seized" image above. But everyone is too wise to April fools these days. Thinking of announcing a fake engagement on Facebook.

We have a girls only and boys only part of the forum. We created a fake girl forum and gave all the guys access..we had some crazy stuff in there!

Another year, we also changed all the mods avatar to one that said "I'm watching you"..creeped everyone out.

Not sure what we are going to do this year....a takeover, the rtl seems like fun...

I think I'm going to create a new moderator's forum with full access to everyone, hide the real one, and make a thread 'welcome to the moderating group'.

I think the best I've done before was replaced everyone's avatar with a random one out of a directory full of blinkie/sparkly ones like you see on myspace.

So I saw a randomize category on a really old thread. Any idea how to do that on 4.1.2 ?

I 'promoted' everyone to admin on my site (red names anyway) and gave them to the link to my admincp http://www.gamerzneeds.net/forums/admincp/ in the navbar. They are very excited ^^

Feel free to go to the admincp and press Login :D

I flipped the entire screen. I just started. It's awesome!

I put this in additional css:

body {
-moz-transform: scaleX(-1); /* Gecko */
-o-transform: scaleX(-1); /* Operah */
-webkit-transform: scaleX(-1); /* webkit */
transform: scaleX(-1); /* standard */
filter: FlipH; /* IE 6/7/8 */
}

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Originally Posted by Deirdre (Post 2179855)

I know it's kind of late but if anyone wants, here is this code as an installable product. It has 1 in 10 chance of "mirroring" your forum.

You can change the 1 in 10 chance by editing the first line of the plugin, (1, 10) to (1, X) where X is a 1 in X chance.

For VB 3.8.x Only. (maybe 3.7.x)

I saw that on another thread. I have 4.1.2. Having fun though :)

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