Sorry, I disagree. We were interacting on site, as to do otherwise would have been suspicious come April Fool's Day. The prank itself was site-wide sock puppetry to amuse and entertain the community. That was not done until April Fool's Day. Had the prank been to merely interact with members, that would have been execution, but it was not. Furthermore, we banned one of our sock puppets because it had got too far with members and we had not intended to utilize them more than minimally before April 1.
The word "innocent" makes it sound like we were guilty of something and I cannot agree with that. People repeatedly said that day that it was the best time they had every had on the forums. The tune only changed after the fact. For my part of it, the tune changed for a very specific reason that had nothing to do with the prank and would have likely eventually happened anyway, as the situation had wrongly not been checked by myself. Not handling that long ago, I do regret. The prank itself, I do not.
The word "innocent" makes it sound like we were guilty of something and I cannot agree with that. People repeatedly said that day that it was the best time they had every had on the forums. The tune only changed after the fact. For my part of it, the tune changed for a very specific reason that had nothing to do with the prank and would have likely eventually happened anyway, as the situation had wrongly not been checked by myself. Not handling that long ago, I do regret. The prank itself, I do not.
