Hehe.. I set everyone's postcount to 0 in the postbit, gave them a funny avatar, sig, and usertitle. Then I used the old {username} hack (very popular on Zed's forum ) which makes everyone who views the thread see their own name.

This is the thread I posted:

Subject: "Hey {usernamehackhere}! :angry: "

"My logs show that you're the one who accessed the admin control panel and deleted everyone's post count. I don't know how you did it but I've contacted your ISP and reported you. :angry: "


Less than 5 minutes after posting it I got several emails and PMs from members telling me that their must be some kind of mistake and that they had nothing to do with it. :laugh:

Here's a couple of the PMs & emails I got:

This is the best one.. Its from a member who hasn't posted in years! And he actually blames it on his friend! :laugh:
I finally sent him a PM to remind him that today is April 1st.. He replied and said "LMAO! You got me! That was good one!".

Its only 6am here.. My PM box is sure to be full by the end of the day. :D

I missed out this year, was pretty busy the night before and afterwards so I couldn't get time to execute my plans. (Depends on time zone, of course)

LOL nice :D

Well, the game is afoot. I can't tell yet if the users are freaked or not.

Amy

]my users ARE! ( https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...043#post376043 )

zach. pm me with the alias you used and I'll validate you.

Amy

Verify this username please amy. :)

[PMed you with the username...]

got it :) I figured out zach's too.

LOL!!! We are creating a bit of havoc... ;)

I've had to use this:

http://rinkworks.com/dialect/

and choose "Hacker" to try to dumb down my spelling. ;)

Anyway, enough fun... I'm going to bed now amy... hoped I've helped in your little "prank" like I promised I would. :) Let us know how it goes...

Yesterday, I installed the new "Most Ignored" hack and my users got quite a kick out of it. Today, I changed it to show that whatever user is logged in is the current "Most Ignored" member...

Where is the {username} hack?!!

yeah where is that thing? I cant seem to find it either.

it was by firefly :)

still cant find it. can someone give the link? Or the title?

A screenshot of Erwin at work and Filbert1's logo that he made for my hacked site.

All avatars are set to that ghastly skeleton.


I logged in and told the members that I called the web host and they would be able to get our site back; so the members are having fun teasing the hackers now. One member is even translating Shakespeare to hacker-speak :D

Amy

LMAO Amy :p

I did something similar and Im getting my arse reemed for it :(

<a href="http://www.vgchat.com/" target="_blank">http://www.vgchat.com/</a>

I got the index 'hacked', images of me, you have no idea who posts what, and some messed up sounds!!!

Does any one know where the {username} hack can be found here?!!

<a href="http://www.rpgadvance.com" target="_blank">www.rpgadvance.com</a> how about that? It should still be there when you look. Heh had a bit o fun with my members.

Just looking at the aftermath on the site... do you really think your members are falling for it? On April 1st? LOL! Some seem to be...

meh, maybe not but still kinda funny. Heh most of the members on my forum are of the younger age. lets say anywhere from 5th grade to HighSchool. So you never know.

The {username} hack:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...threadid=35220

Hehehe. This is fun =)

Thanks. We couldn't find it because it didn't have 'username' or 'member' in the title.

To everyone who helped, my members thank you :) They had fun with it and tell me I am going to have to work hard to top it next year :rolleyes:

Amy

Ok, I wanted to bring this thread back up.

What are people planning this year?

I used the text inversion last year and it went over great, so I need another good one this year.

I'm not planning anything...I think it's a stupid tradition.

Hmm - i'm open for ideas :p

So who's got some ideas????

You're right ;)

I want some ideas too. :)

Make index.php (or index.html) in the forums root dir redirect to a new dir like /boards/ and import the forum database to like phpBB or IPB or wBB. Hehe.

I dunno, just an idea :).

i may have popups on my forum that load copys of the forum on each forum click
not too creative but what do you expect from an overworked admin

I haven't figured out what to do to the board (and as we are upgrading to vB3 and moving to a new server on the 31st, no matter WHAT it is, it will work) but wanted to share what I am doing at work in case anyone wants to try this.

I took the company's website and redid the main index.cfm page as an lndex.cfm (lowercase 'L') and changed all of the wording on it to hip hop (fo' shizzle my nizzle type stuff).

I uploaded it to the root directory, and when the Marketing Manager (and other key peeps) leave on the 31st, the IT director and I am going to go to all of their machines and replace their bookmarks from index.cfm to lndex.cfm so that the next morning, I can make one call asking what is wrong with the site and start a chain reaction of people clicking their favs file to see the issue (these are technically challenged folks, BTW).

No danger of the outside world seeing it this way, but everyone internally will flip.

:)

If I had a forum i'd run this query:
[sql]
UPDATE user SET posts = '0'
[/sql]

And since i'm so evil i'd probably make it a cron job for the rest of the forums life.

i would love that set up now for all of time.

(spam +++++s :rolleyes: )

Last year we held a contest where users bidded against other using thier forum points for a trip to visit anyone they wanted to on the board. Naturally we
geared it towards all the cyber couples.

You should have seen it! We had members begging for people to donate thier points to them and the sheer viciousness as they competed for this grand prize. It was extremely funny!! LOL we're so evil =).

Actually I kind of felt bad for the 'winner'.

Oh well. They're okay about it now so its all good.

=)

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Edit: the year before was just as funny. We had a couple of things going on and one of them was a rumor we put out saying that the site was bieng bought out by another site that pretty much despised us. I guess it got turned around though cause the members on THAT site thought we were buying THEM! I wish I still had the IRC chat logs with thier members going up to thier administration asking them about it all.

/me chuckles, we've had some great pranks.

Instead of really making posts zero, make a new custom profile field, and make that zero, but add 1 whenever a new post is made by editing functions_newpost.php - everyone would think that their post counts have been reset, but in reality it's still being stored. Safer so you can revert. :)

with steves couldn't you just update the counters?