April Fools jokes to play on members? he he

[Gizmo]

Originally Posted by filburt1

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

You're right

[Erwin]

I want some ideas too.

[MSX]

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 .

[twoseven]

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

[Christine]

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.

[assassingod]

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.

[muse.mu]

Originally Posted by assassingod

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 )

[Reeve of shinra]

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.

[Erwin]

Originally Posted by assassingod

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.

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.

[sabret00the]

Originally Posted by Erwin

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?