Objections to the April Fools Day prank.

[thesummerqueen]

I think there have been legitimate gripes voiced here, and many people were unhappy with this prank without going into histrionics.

Yes sir. But if I may, and I'm not trying to belabor the point with this - there were many who questioned exactly what you said without getting involved in the drama and they should know that, as I already told a few people, it was very bad timing but not bad timing because of poor judgment. Rather, poor timing because of outside happenstance.

It happened that we had a blow up because of sock accounts before and as all this was being planned - perhaps we should have changed our strategy, but we liked the ideas. This wasn't a plan because we feel mods and admins are above the rules, but because on a day like April Fool's the rules are bent or broken in the name of comedy and pranks. We had to, as stated, lay some groundwork for it to be pulled off even somewhat successfully, and I think really if prior problems hadn't gotten in the way, even those people who raised that legitimate question would have laughed it off.

Pranks are *meant* to mess with people, but no one was messing with forum members on a personal level in the slightest. The socks were created to cause very general April Fool's mayhem. And for the most part, once people got the joke, there was chagrin and laughter. I hate that the louder voices overtook those.