Fools Gold

[mheisig]

Moderators,

Kudos for pulling off such an intelligent and witty ruse. Your convincing banter and well laid plans really came across as quite humorous, as you can tell from all the people here who have found this so funny. </end sarcasm>

Yes, it's a joke, I get it. Yes, you were well intentioned and meant no harm. I would like to point out that your intentions are completely irrelevant. What you DO is what's important. I am by no means about to abandon WP.net or write you all off, but I will say this entire things shows a real lack of maturity and character.

Whether you meant well or not, you can see by this thread that virtually everyone here found this to be far from "hilarious." I think most everyone found it highly annoying at best. The Redskins fans who spend a considerable amount of time and energy participating on this site, and without whom this site would not exist, are pretty pissed off and some form of apology may be in order.

I don't think you need to come "begging for forgiveness for your horrible crimes," but at least admit this was poorly thought out and that you've offended and annoyed a substantial portion of your fanbase.

I can take a joke with the best of them and I enjoy a good April Fools prank, but have some discretion in the future.

[saden1]

What did I miss? What is this all about? Link please!

[SmootSmack]

Originally Posted by saden1

What did I miss? What is this all about? Link please!

http://www.thewarpath.net/showthread.php?t=11861

[wilsowilso]

I can't tell if people are really mad or not because after all today is April 1st.

[Sociofan]

Originally Posted by TAFKAS

Typically for TheWarpath.net, we consider our "offseason" to be after the NFL draft and before Training Camp. May and June is the time that all the mods try to finalize all new ideas for the upcoming season. These include changes in forum rules, added/deleted or modified content, new moderators and possible partnerships.

Every year we seek the input of our members before we meet in our own forum and discuss the ideas we think would work best. And this year is no different.

However, we decided this time to make things a bit different by starting it off with an April Fool's joke that as moderators there was too much internal strife going on so some of us were defecting. Some of you took the joke quite personally and are angry. I guess that's part of what makes an April Fool's joke good. More importantly it shows the passion we all have for the Redskins and this site. We did the joke a day early so it wouldn't be as obvious, and in fact it was supposed to extend well into Saturday with even Extremeskins moderators getting involved. Thanks also to Schneed10 and TheMalcolmConnection for playing along. Don't worry, banning TMC was all part of the hoax.

But we don't want to mislead you guys any further. And we apologize that a lot of you got quite upset.

We assure you that there will be no split. All the moderators are fully dedicated to making this site the best. And to do that we need all of you. So please check out the "How Can We Improve" thread and give us suggestions of what you want to see for the 2006 season.

I got stuck at "...Rosanne Rosanna Danna....nevermind." Wasn't "Nevermind" the tagline of Emily Latella?

[wilsowilso]

Originally Posted by saden1

What did I miss? What is this all about? Link please!

Yeah right!

[dmek25]

everyone needs to lighten up alittle.kudos on a good april fools JOKE.evryone thats pissed off take note of the word joke.but i have one question,can we keep tmc banned?(j/k)

[Sammy Baugh Fan]

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The "joke" never should have been posted as an Announcement. Getting a bunch of people to lie and contune to make up more lies is Lying. Many people's way of posting and reasons for being here were insulted and I'd argue the sites own TOS were broken.

Whatever.

I'll look for the Redskins related posts around here and "hope" ya'll are telling the truth this time.

Hail Skins
mike

[SmootSmack]

Originally Posted by Sammy Baugh Fan

The "joke" never should have been posted as an Announcement. Getting a bunch of people to lie and contune to make up more lies is Lying. Many people's way of posting and reasons for being here were insulted and I'd argue the sites own TOS were broken.

Whatever.

I'll look for the Redskins related posts around here and "hope" ya'll are telling the truth this time.

Hail Skins
mike

I thought you were said a couple of posts ago you were going to say your piece and let it go. Apparently you can't.

As I said in the first post the mods apologize to those who got genuinely upset by this. And for the record, that does not include "virtually everyone on the site"

It was an innocent joke that admittedly got out of hand. We've learned our lesson. In the future the mods won't assume that people can take a simple joke and not make ridiculous comparisons to joking about divorcing your spouse or telling some kid his parents died. We figured we'd have some fun, but apparently that's not possible with some of you.

[FRPLG]

Guys everyone needs to chill. It was a joke(and a pretty obvious one too if I say so myself). If you can't take a joke in the spirit it was meant in then I am sorta sad for you. I know everyone loves it here and doesn't want anything to happen but for Gibbs' sake settle down. It was just a little joke.

[jamf]

I enjoyed it!
I didn't fall for it at first but the "Mr. Kyer" thing got me.
Then I remembered Tafkas is hispanic, we are not level headed or fair in a fight so I knew it was a joke.

"Mr. Kyer" i think mattyk needs a new nickname!

[SmootSmack]

Originally Posted by jamf

I enjoyed it!
I didn't fall for it at first but the "Mr. Kyer" thing got me.
Then I remembered Tafkas is hispanic, we are not level headed or fair in a fight so I knew it was a joke.

"Mr. Kyer" i think mattyk needs a new nickname!

LOL. Damn my culture!

[jamf]

Also...

All the defectors should be forced to use a new avatar. I vote for this one.

[FRPLG]

Even those who are pissed off have to admit the whole live audio/video from the fedex parking lot debate was funny as hell. Matty cracked my ass up.

[Schneed10]

Originally Posted by Sammy Baugh Fan

The "joke" never should have been posted as an Announcement. Getting a bunch of people to lie and contune to make up more lies is Lying. Many people's way of posting and reasons for being here were insulted and I'd argue the sites own TOS were broken.

Whatever.

I'll look for the Redskins related posts around here and "hope" ya'll are telling the truth this time.

Hail Skins
mike

OK Mike you're getting ridiculous. It's time to lighten up, you are taking yourself WAY too seriously.

Everyone chill. Once the dust settles everything will be back to normal and we'll be back to talking about the Skins.