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Re: Rules for April Fool's Day (was: Strange Find on Lego.com)
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lugnet.general
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Thu, 3 Apr 2003 14:22:15 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> "Rules" for April Fools Day? I had to check the date on the post to see if
> the poster was serious or not. :-)
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> I'm not sure you can promulgate rules or have them stick.
I agree with Larry. There's no way to ensure that everybody reading next
year's April fool's hoax will have read the rules so the hoax planners can't
assume the same thing won't happen again. Every April fool's hoax makes the
community on the whole more sophisticated for detecting hoaxes. I think the
only solution is for the hoaxes to get more sophisticated instead of trying
to ask that all of the sophisticated LUGNET'ers keep their mouthes shut
whenever they see the same old kind of hoax. The whole thing would simply
turn into a yearly hazing for the newbies.
The one thing that would really stir up the fun with April fool's day is if
our friends at LEGO Direct decided to deliberately leak information about an
unknown new product to someone on LUGNET on April 1st. If they did it right
you'd end up with the ultimate inverted hoax. The people who don't believe
it are the ones who will be wrong. It would also shed doubt on every other
real hoax since folks won't be so quick to assume that anything cool
anounced on April 1st must be a hoax.
Just a thought...
-Paul D.
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