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AIGamesDeveloper
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1000+ posts

On April Fool's Day, how far can joke topics go?

Paddle2See wrote:

The other forum moderators and I have talking over how we can find a balance between having some good-natured fun on April Fool's day without causing too much disruption to regular forum users - and without creating a ton of new work for our short-handed forum moderation team. Here's some guidelines that we hope will help:

Thank you so much Paddle2See!
slap83
Scratcher
100+ posts

On April Fool's Day, how far can joke topics go?

Chiroyce wrote:

Paddle2See wrote:

Go for quality, not quantity!
This is the best advice!! Keeps away spam and lets us have fun, thank you so much!!
yes. don't just go and say hi*send*there.*send*what*send*is*send*new?*send*are*send*there*send*any*send*really*send*good*send*projects*send*yet?*send*
That is just totally insane. If I ever saw something like that, I'd report it as spam immediately.
hi875230163394
Scratcher
1000+ posts

On April Fool's Day, how far can joke topics go?

Paddle2See wrote:

The other forum moderators and I have talking over how we can find a balance between having some good-natured fun on April Fool's day without causing too much disruption to regular forum users - and without creating a ton of new work for our short-handed forum moderation team. Here's some guidelines that we hope will help:

Keep it fun! Nothing mean-spirted or dangerous, please. Creative and funny is appreciated; mildly annoying (like rick-rolls) is tolerated. Some creative ideas to celebrate April Fool's Day on the forums:
- have fun with your forum signature
- make a silly Scratch Project, and post a silly advertisement about it in Show and Tell

Don't break the forums. Some important parts of the forums support Scratchers looking for help. If there are too many topics or posts being created, their calls for help can get lost. Let's make sure we can hear them by not posting pranks topics or posts in the direct support forum sections: “Help with Scripts” and “Questions about Scratch”. Also, please no joke posts on serious topics - and no spamming topics. Go for quality, not quantity!

Clean up after the party. Please keep the clean-up process in mind as you are creating your pranks. All the fake topics that get created will need to be closed at some point. You can help by limiting the number of new topics created and closing your own topics once 24 hours have passed since topic creation.

Scratch on
We should close this topic now that we have what we needed


Rise of the april fools guidelines (12)
(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)

I, II — Summon a 5/5 colorless forumer token creature with haste

III — Destroy all tokens
The warriors laid down their shields, the nearly endless battle was finally over

Last edited by hi875230163394 (March 23, 2022 17:36:55)

mrrecordman
Scratcher
1000+ posts

On April Fool's Day, how far can joke topics go?

cheddargirl wrote:

Don't do it. We don't want a repeat of last year where a lot of users were denied help because the forums got flooded and mods spent a lot of time cleaning up instead of other reports. You're better off making an April Fools project instead of a joke forum topic.
I think that’s describing joke reports. It’s ok if it’s related to the forum and isn’t spam. I think
scratchgodo
Scratcher
1000+ posts

On April Fool's Day, how far can joke topics go?

hi875230163394 wrote:

Paddle2See wrote:

The other forum moderators and I have talking over how we can find a balance between having some good-natured fun on April Fool's day without causing too much disruption to regular forum users - and without creating a ton of new work for our short-handed forum moderation team. Here's some guidelines that we hope will help:

Keep it fun! Nothing mean-spirted or dangerous, please. Creative and funny is appreciated; mildly annoying (like rick-rolls) is tolerated. Some creative ideas to celebrate April Fool's Day on the forums:
- have fun with your forum signature
- make a silly Scratch Project, and post a silly advertisement about it in Show and Tell

Don't break the forums. Some important parts of the forums support Scratchers looking for help. If there are too many topics or posts being created, their calls for help can get lost. Let's make sure we can hear them by not posting pranks topics or posts in the direct support forum sections: “Help with Scripts” and “Questions about Scratch”. Also, please no joke posts on serious topics - and no spamming topics. Go for quality, not quantity!

Clean up after the party. Please keep the clean-up process in mind as you are creating your pranks. All the fake topics that get created will need to be closed at some point. You can help by limiting the number of new topics created and closing your own topics once 24 hours have passed since topic creation.

Scratch on
We should close this topic now that we have what we needed


Rise of the april fools guidelines (12)
(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)

I, II — Summon a 5/5 colorless forumer token creature with haste

III — Destroy all tokens
The warriors laid down their shields, the nearly endless battle was finally over
Please can I have the post link.
hi875230163394
Scratcher
1000+ posts

On April Fool's Day, how far can joke topics go?

scratchgodo wrote:

hi875230163394 wrote:

Paddle2See wrote:

The other forum moderators and I have talking over how we can find a balance between having some good-natured fun on April Fool's day without causing too much disruption to regular forum users - and without creating a ton of new work for our short-handed forum moderation team. Here's some guidelines that we hope will help:

Keep it fun! Nothing mean-spirted or dangerous, please. Creative and funny is appreciated; mildly annoying (like rick-rolls) is tolerated. Some creative ideas to celebrate April Fool's Day on the forums:
- have fun with your forum signature
- make a silly Scratch Project, and post a silly advertisement about it in Show and Tell

Don't break the forums. Some important parts of the forums support Scratchers looking for help. If there are too many topics or posts being created, their calls for help can get lost. Let's make sure we can hear them by not posting pranks topics or posts in the direct support forum sections: “Help with Scripts” and “Questions about Scratch”. Also, please no joke posts on serious topics - and no spamming topics. Go for quality, not quantity!

Clean up after the party. Please keep the clean-up process in mind as you are creating your pranks. All the fake topics that get created will need to be closed at some point. You can help by limiting the number of new topics created and closing your own topics once 24 hours have passed since topic creation.

Scratch on
We should close this topic now that we have what we needed


Rise of the april fools guidelines (12)
(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)

I, II — Summon a 5/5 colorless forumer token creature with haste

III — Destroy all tokens
The warriors laid down their shields, the nearly endless battle was finally over
Please can I have the post link.
enjoy

doubter of the guidelines (3)

Fear

Hexproof

Whenever one of your opponents sagas receives a lore counter, summon a colorless 2/2 doubtful forumer with hexproof and fear

The power of the April Fools guidelines led some people to question it

Last edited by hi875230163394 (March 23, 2022 17:53:43)

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