I loved it!
Couldn't believe my eyes!
I saw some thread in the lines of "Do you think they know that I'm 69ron" and complety dropped my jaw.
Used printscreen and paint to make sure that they wouldn't disappear until I started to
look more closely at the threadnames.
Something about eating babies made the alarmbells go off.
...then I thought we had been hacked!

Haha! Took me awhile to check the date, excellent prank!

When I accepted the prank as being reality I kinda wanted it to be true because it jerked me
out of my ordinary experience and threw into something
completely surreal like taken from an actionmovie or something.

A+

i will say...i was proud of myself for how quickly i cleaned my house out! i left work early, cashed out my bank account and cleaned out my entire house. from the time i got home until all my stuff was in storage: hour and a half. not too bad, i'd say. i packed up everything illegal and had it safely stored in an hour and a half. fire drills are always nice! thanks for the scare. i really needed it guys!

Woke up this morning like.."Did that actually happen yesterday or was it all just a really bad dream?"

Very well executed! I kinda knew it was a joke but was a bit skeptical in case it wasn't... Good one!

Sick joke ass holes! But god dammit you had me going... Cant deny that, and gotta hand it to ya for genuinely freaking me out yesterday!


Wonder how many members left through all that? I almost did until I read the whole elite dawgz forum and starting realizing on the third or fourth page that no fool would ever talk about these things online, almost had me admins...

Yeah, Gibran2 seemed genuinely upset that some of his posts were deleted. He was concerned about the security of the site and said he was leaving.

Now it could be that he was in on the joke too...but I haven't seen him online yet since!

I got a kik out of that.

My first suspicion was that it was the work of the Traveler. I have allot of faith in the security and design of this web site. I gotta say I saw some true colors come out in some of the members that were being fooled. The Traveler has your back when you come here. Mods, very well done! Bravo!

lol

Trav and mods, Thank You!

JEEEZUS..... i have never laughed so hard and felt so guilty simultaneously. i'm so sorry you had this reaction my brother. in future i will give you a head's up on anything like this. i'm really sorry you went through such panic!!

@ ragabr - i just PM'd you THE PIC.

L&G!!

More conspiracy? Also I think I.Am. just proved that fear mechanism i was talking about. Life or death people, never forget it.

These were my favorites. Also "The BIG Conspiracy Theory Thread".

I find it interesting that most complaints revolved around the possibility that the government may track us down... for me this didn't matter for a moment (perhaps because I don't live in the US). What I found most disturbing was the idea that these people who have a very special place in my heart, suddenly turned out to be also active on the "dark side of life". This brought a very deep Tibetan crazy wisdom aspect to this experience which truly shattered my world for those thirty seconds.

Anyway, thanks for the experience, all in all, it was more than worth it.

I liked the "need something more caustic than lye to eat through bone".. also the "faking patience: I hate most nexus members"

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!! Excelent burn!! The only upsetting part is that I can't see the actual posts I was really hoping to see MMM's sex tap

It WAS funny - thread headings were a scream.

BUT, I do think it was over the top. Most websites that do an April Fools event, either change the main banner or do a single post. What we had here was the appearance of a new and hilarious elite subforum. We see elite in the title, then we cannot see any of the posts. Geez, thanks for the tease Antrocles. I would really have liked to see those posts.

You see, it was clear that Mods were posting like MAD in those threads. They DOMINATED the non-Nursery section. The only way to stay on top is if replies are made. Again, would have been nice to see. But, maybe worth the price of admission just for the thread titles.

Here's where it went just slightly wrong IMO: 1.) In order to maintain it some posts had to be deleted. This pissed at least one member off to the point of threatening to leave. Perhaps in hindsight, it would have made sense to immediately email a member and "bring them into the joke" if a post of theirs had to be deleted to maintain the sham. Perhaps not. Easy to armchair quarterback.

2.) Part of the joke was to suggest that all of this had happened due to a hack at the Nexus. Sorry Mods, but whoever came up with THIS idea - it was a really bad one. And then it was maintained and even pushed. This concurrent at a time when many of us knew The Traveler was out of town AND congruent with a recent announcement of "Maintenance" to the Nexus. Overreaction? Paranoid? For those who have faced the reality of what our society has to offer? I honestly don't think so. I talked to Nemo Amicus about my fears. I raised my fears briefly in chat. Basically saying, hilarious, over the top joke that some are misinterpreting, but now I cannot help but wonder if a real hack has taken place? This level of ambiguity and maintenance of this particular aspect of the "joke" really could have been left behind I feel.



Maybe this IS a wakeup call. I am intrigued by the idea of being able to access Nexus through an extra "onion" layer of security. Maybe some good can come of this and we can all become more secure. I have absolutely no idea.


One final thought. The Nexus is mainly a European and American community BUT it is in fact representative of people from all over the world, at least six continents. The History of April Fool's Day goes back to British paganism I believe, during the time when the CHURCH was starting to take over, . . . that is, during the transition to the Dark Ages. You see, the pagans celebrated their New Year on April 1. Well, the CHURCH declared it was to be January 1st. So, any pagan, whose traditions go back thousands of years, who says otherwise is clearly, a FOOL. The delightful folks in Britain who were SO uptight and rigid during the reformation, the Puritans (American "Pilgrams" ) brought this delightful holiday over to America.

Eventually, it evolved into what we have today. Just some food for thought.

Well I certainly got suckered in for a little while!

Good April Fools joke, but I can see why some are a little edgy about it. This is a board about illegal drugs after all!

Of course any long term members that read the post titles could figure out it pretty quick that it wasn't real...ms_manic_minx and her sex tape! LOL

Yeah you guy's pulled a good one for sure!

That is the reason I can't believe anyone took it seriously..

FYI - There was never any site maintenance...

With slammed shut eyes and hands smacked over ears:

Na, Na, NA, NA, NA, NAA, NAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! NOT LISTENING.

Sucking up soup now. . . .

We'll all be OK as long as the Juarez cartel gets it's money by friday...

Yup. He's actually posting from prison currently.

Man! I was frantically searching the web for glass butt dildos! Had dreams of getting rich off my own GVG factory. You guys built me up only to smash me with my own dreams! Shame on you!

BTW Trav - "dildos" is not in the Nexus spell check library. Better add that one.

Peace,
-idt

i still think its a hack, but I for one welcome our new reptilian overloads