ive seen several st members discouraging making joke topics thats why

Can you give a link to their posts where they said this?

musicROCKS013 wrote:

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Can you give a link to their posts where they said this?

wouldnt it count as gossiping?

btw its not several its one

Socialix wrote:

wouldnt it count as gossiping?

No, because it's simply linking a post where the ST said something.

That was regarding the April Fools' of 2022 (this year) not next year. There were still a lot of April Fools' Topics this year, so I'd say it will still happen.

ok thanks i will continue preparing my super detailed high quality joke topics

as you can see, the responses to the post that you’ve linked are pretty anti-stopping-april-fools-joke-topics, so i’d say it would be fine if you don’t do it outside of the 1st of april and you keep it scratch appropriate. after all, it’s only 1-2 days (allowing for timezone differences) a year that there’s joke topics.

With what happened last year and this year, we're really starting to heavily lean towards “no” (although, I personally was, and always will be, dead-set on “NO”).

There's really is just not enough mods for cleanup afterwards, and there was a huge unfair disparity in people (literally only two people) who genuinely cared enough to re-bump all the relevant suggestions and push down the spam topics to the end of the suggestion list. All the joke topics have done is take time away from mods to do their job, take free time from community members who program or interact with the Scratch website in other meaningful ways, and throw donated server money down the drain.