A recap of Theymos April fool Jokes from 2015 till date

[Mate2237]

Wow!! What an amazing April Fool fun in the forum. I didn't experienced all those ones expect this year (2023) April fool. Really it was frightened at first sight but later it became fun along with others. 2024 April fool thread will be more dangerous than this year's own. And theymos might active an April fool thread permanently to create new change in the forum where victims will be banned,

The worst April fool I have experienced in physical life and also in the forum this year was the uncle Royse777 event, which can and spoiled my day for me. Royse April fool was to hurt users and it was not for fun.

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[acroman08]

April fool dates	|	April fool Events	|	Brief description of what happened
01/04/2020	|	April fools 2020 "virus"	|	This was the year that Coronavirus spread and fear was around everybody, so the administrator decided to raise the stakes by displaying digital virus codes on posts, comments, and profiles. This made profiles appear as if they had been compromised by a virus, which was somewhat frightful given how close social distances were at the time and how little movement there was. However, it was just a traditional April fool's joke.

probably the best April Fools the forum has had so far(at least for me), the 2020 April was actually very informative and shows how the virus can spread in real-time. if I remember correctly the forum was riddled with the "virus" theymos made in less than a day. it was understandable too that there were members that didn't like the theme of the April Fools.

01/04/2021

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Introducing NFTs for forum members

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Crypto was having all attention shift to NFT in 2021 and as valuable digitals art was then, the Admin decided to introduce Fnfts for members and also a marketplace where everyone can put them for sale and you can be lucky to sell fnfts for a whoop of 50BTC, who doesn't like such amount of bitcoin? That was how some people fell for the Joke.

I had fun with this one, I just wish it lasted longer. I wonder if there are members who took a screenshot of their account's FNFT.

The worst April fool I have experienced in physical life and also in the forum this year was the uncle Royse777 event, which can and spoiled my day for me. Royse April fool was to hurt users and it was not for fun.

do you mean the signature campaign? after I posted my application there I realized that it was too good to be true and was just a prank since the rate was too high and the fact that it was posted on April 1.

[JoyMarsha]

The only April Fools in this topic that I witnessed and was tricked by was the one from the previous year. The April Fool joke concerning IQ testing from last year got me to reflect on my journey in the forum by making me reevaluate whether or not my participation in the forum was over as a result of my poor score. My attitude was affected all day long till the realization that it was all a prank the following day.

[karmamiu]

The only April Fools in this topic that I witnessed and was tricked by was the one from the previous year. The April Fool joke concerning IQ testing from last year got me to reflect on my journey in the forum by making me reevaluate whether or not my participation in the forum was over as a result of my poor score. My attitude was affected all day long till the realization that it was all a prank the following day.

I feel bad for you there. We know that there are people experiencing different days in their lives, some are good while others are bad. and adding the pranks is somehow making your day worse than currently it is. Just like what happened to me the last week on that "suspected a spammer" prank, I actually review all my posts to see if I really did spam or maybe someone mistook and tagged me. All sorts of bad scenarios are already forming in my mind, not until I saw that most of the members who have green trusts are also tagged by it, I sighed in relief after that although my mood isn't good that day due to personal reasons, I promised to myself that day that I would beat this game just to let go what I felt, coz to be honest I really thought it was already over for my account. Even after knowing that it was all a prank after scouring some sections on this forum before going to the meta boards, my dismay and my willingness to remove the tag was even more serious than before knowing it was a prank.

That is why I have said on the main thread on last week's prank that, I will show @theymos that I can play along on his pranks and prove that I can beat that game . I somehow missed the game to be honest.

[sokani]

The only April Fools in this topic that I witnessed and was tricked by was the one from the previous year. The April Fool joke concerning IQ testing from last year got me to reflect on my journey in the forum by making me reevaluate whether or not my participation in the forum was over as a result of my poor score. My attitude was affected all day long till the realization that it was all a prank the following day.

Though I'm new to the forum and this is my first time of experiencing this kind of prank on the forum, but when I saw it few minutes the post was made I didn't fall for it. My instincts told me this could be some sorts of prank since it's the first day of April and it turns out I was right. It's good to have something like this once in a while to ease off stress, enough of all the bitcoin and crypto talks, to just laugh and catch fun is good for the community.

Thanks to you OP, for putting up the past April fool's prank together, you did a great job.

[UserU]

do you mean the signature campaign? after I posted my application there I realized that it was too good to be true and was just a prank since the rate was too high and the fact that it was posted on April 1.

Most likely that one. In fact, a few actually opened threads in the Reputation subforum to voice their disapproval.

[Asuspawer09]

The recent one was great and entertaining, the troll when you need to repeat the flappy bird game was just annoying but similar to the last year's April Fools.

This joke was just so fun when I joined the forum in 2017 it was really fun to have this kind of troll so that we also have some fun here not just some serious discussions. The Virus thing was the best because you thought the website was just getting destroyed.

Excited for the next year April fool  let's see what the next one is.

[Huppercase]

Another great day to be alive.

-42 merit  

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01/04/2024

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Adjustments to Merit calculation

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A new system has been introduced to discourage shitposting and to reward good posters. Specifically, posts with fewer than 15 characters will result in a merit deduction, and posts of higher quality will earn you merit increments. However, the catch is that the merit you receive does not add up to your smerit, which means you will not receive any smerit to send out. Don't worry, it's all part of the April Fools' joke.

I think your description of this year's April Fool's joke is wrong. According to theymos and from what I observed, we will not lose merits due to posts shorter than 15 characters, but quite the opposite - for every 15 characters we post, we will lose one Merit point. The joke is that the system actually penalizes long posts, and encourages writing short replies to reduce "shitposting". Another thing you didn't mention is that there is a system whereby you will earn a bit of merit just by reading posts.

[Huppercase]

I think your description of this year's April Fool's joke is wrong. According to theymos and from what I observed, we will not lose merits due to posts shorter than 15 characters, but quite the opposite - for every 15 characters we post, we will lose one Merit point. The joke is that the system actually penalizes long posts, and encourages writing short replies to reduce "shitposting". Another thing you didn't mention is that there is a system whereby you will earn a bit of merit just by reading posts.

Thank you for the correction. At first I was confused when I made more than 15 characters and all of a sudden merit crashed, that's was when I lost completely but you are correct after many observations. I will make the edit right away.

Edit:
Another bunch of merit gone.

[The Sceptical Chymist]

Another great day to be alive.

-42 merit  

Now that's funny--can't say I've ever seen a negative merit count in someone's profile.  Who's got the lowest so far, I wonder?

I haven't seen this thread in a while, and it just struck me that I was here for the first April Fool's Day joke in 2015, though I probably didn't appreciate its significance at the time, nor do I remember that avatar joke from the first year.  Seems like the pranks Theymos pulled regarding merits have gotten the most excited response from members who don't know what's going on. 

Nothing will beat the day the merit system was created, though.  Good thing that wasn't a joke.

[Alone055]

Now that's funny--can't say I've ever seen a negative merit count in someone's profile.  Who's got the lowest so far, I wonder?

Someone will need to scrap the data and show us some stats on that real quick before it's all back to normal. So far from what I've seen, Cyrus is on top of the leaderboard.