April Fool's day is coming!!!

[GTAce]

Last year I pulled a pretty good prank with my co-admin at the time (previous project). We ran a pretty close-knit community where everybody knew everybody and the admins were good buddies with the members...Well...a couple months before April Fools, we had been creating fake admin threads. Everything from funny to serious to pointless...We were also creating fake "battles"...we would stage fights in a hidden admin forum where it would appear as if the admins were pissed at each other. Well, come april fools, my co-admin announced that I had been banned as an admin for confidential reasons. On top of that, this fake admin section had miraculously become public! He had supposedly left on a business trip and was not able to be contacted...meanwhile, the other admins were very non-tech savvy (which was true), so they "could not figure out" how to hide the admin section.

While all of this is going on...co-admin and I are logging into a secret admin account and watching and reading all of the mayhem...simultaneously discussing it with the rest of the admins. People TOTALLY fell for it, for the entire 24 hours...we were keeping a very close eye on everybody to make sure that nobody took it too seriously and left in a fit of rage (as I said, tight-knit community). In the end, it all worked out perfectly...it was a lot of work, but couldn't have worked any better.