[April Fools] This better not be what I think it is...

[DaCryptoRaccoon]

That confirms it; theymos apparently thinks it's funny to joke about a disease outbreak that (by my guesstimate) will probably directly kill at least a million people

If you choose to see-as-evil acts which were clearly done in the spirit of fun & good faith, then you're creating demons for your personal living hell...

There is a rare worldwide shared cultural experience going on in the form of the pandemic and the resulting unprecedented social distancing policies. It's similar to a world war in terms of its widespread cultural significance. So this little game came to my mind to connect with it. As with several past bitcointalk.org April Fools things, it's more of a new/weird/fun way for people to interact with the forum and generate discussion, not a joke as such. Certainly it wasn't meant to somehow poke fun at the many real tragedies created by the coronavirus situation; it was meant to connect with the huge thing dominating the minds/lives of basically everyone on Earth.

How come your not "infected" theymos

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[nakamura12]

Oh no, theymos just posted in this thread where there are infected people. Theymos have a higher chance to get infected by other forum members. Is there something that I don't know, maybe you have a vaccine already and corona virus won't infect anymore. Use ANTI-VIRUS LIKE AVAST, AVG, KASPERSKY TO SCAN AND REMOVE CORONA VIRUS.

[OgNasty]

LOL at the forum trolls (foxpup, suchmoon, ibminer, etc) being so sensitive to an April fools joke which also has some educational value. Some people can only see things as negative no matter the intent or value. It is them that are the true virus to this community.

[bitbay84]

Sorry for quoting, but you have used too small font I agree 100% with this red!

LOL at the forum trolls (foxpup, suchmoon, ibminer, etc) being so sensitive to an April fools joke which also has some educational value.
Some people can only see things as negative no matter the intent or value. It is them that are the true virus to this community.

[teeGUMES]

LOL at the forum trolls (foxpup, suchmoon, ibminer, etc) being so sensitive to an April fools joke which also has some educational value. Some people can only see things as negative no matter the intent or value. It is them that are the true virus to this community.

Imagine how fun the company christmas party is

[bitbay84]

BTW this virus can kill crypto I hope that this is fake news...

[BayAreaCoins]

LOL at the forum trolls (foxpup, suchmoon, ibminer, etc) being so sensitive to an April fools joke which also has some educational value. Some people can only see things as negative no matter the intent or value. It is them that are the true virus to this community.

Amen.  I fully agree with you.

Fuck those fucking fruitloops.

Imagine how fun the company christmas party is

And you my good sir just got my last merit point!! <3 Good one.

BTW this virus can kill crypto I hope that this is fake news...

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That picture is not real.  (duh)

[Chlotide]

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Nice "inspect element" trolling. Kudos!

I found a medicine just log out to make the text clear.

This text virus is most likely linked with user session/login time so guests and private windows are not affected.

I understand the nervous reaction of some users (phillipma... hope all is good) but others are way too thin skinned for a public forum.
Overall I got to say... pretty inventive text glitching algo!

[COVID-19]

Does anyone who writes in Meta get it ?

I thought only I could infect people, it is not fair! You ruined my five-minutes of glory.

[Gemino]

As if this website wasn't trashy enough..
Poor taste indeed.

[Akun gratis]

Is there a challenge to find not infected user post? because I found 1 of them.

I don't want to quote it because it will infected.

[irfan_pak10]

Apparently it's a selective virus.  Foxpup and khaled0111 are infected, so far everyone else in this thread is safe symptom free.

Queue the threads on moderation favoritism...  

Maybe we are supposed to figure out how it spreads?  Do you need to post in a thread of an infected person?

Need little quote  I believe I have some common system and feels its spreading now 

[DireWolfM14]

I missed the 2018 prank, registered only four days too late for that one.  I recall folks were still talking about it, though.  Last year's KYC thread and bitcointalk pencils for merit exchange was a real fun one.

I'm over this one, and can't wait for it to end.  In all honesty, I was over it last night (when it was still March for me.)  The infection is making hard to read posts, and although it was mildly humorous at first it's not stacking up to the previous pranks.

One of the best things about practical jokes is that they distract us from the stresses of life, and add a little spice to the mundane.  This joke seems to be provoking the concerns of those of us who have family or friends that have been affected by Covid-19.  And even those of us who haven't been directly affected, many have employment and financial concerns as a result.  Our lives have been turned upside down, and one of my favorite escapes is now infected.

Can we usher in April 2nd a little early this year?

[examplens]

It is very hard to read this. I've tried today to read something on the forum several times, but I'm just annoyed by the strain on my eyes. hope this ends soon.
I understand that things about the virus are currently trending but this is the worst April Fools I've seen.

[snipie]

Does anyone who writes in Meta get it ?

I thought only I could infect people, it is not fair! You ruined my five-minutes of glory.

Social distancing, avoid crowded places, stay away from places where you can get the virus easily, if you are infected and asked to stay at home don't listen to the silent voice in your head telling you to explore every inch in your town and wash your hands

[squatz1]

I missed the 2018 prank, registered only four days too late for that one.  I recall folks were still talking about it, though.  Last year's KYC thread and bitcointalk pencils for merit exchange was a real fun one.

I'm over this one, and can't wait for it to end.  In all honesty, I was over it last night (when it was still March for me.)  The infection is making hard to read posts, and although it was mildly humorous at first it's not stacking up to the previous pranks.

One of the best things about practical jokes is that they distract us from the stresses of life, and add a little spice to the mundane.  This joke seems to be provoking the concerns of those of us who have family or friends that have been affected by Covid-19.  And even those of us who haven't been directly affected, many have employment and financial concerns as a result.  Our lives have been turned upside down, and one of my favorite escapes is now infected.

Can we usher in April 2nd a little early this year?

I mean, I think one of your favorite escapes from reality was already infected. I'm mostly a user of P&S, which could skew this, but I THINK 95 percent of all posts in that section have been about the Coronavirus, responses to the coronavirus from the Fed, Congress, Trump, etc. While this may have been a bit of an escape from reality, I don't think it was doing that much.

All that was being done here from Theymos was to try to teach people about social distancing. Don't think there's anything wrong with that. Trying to flatten the curve here through education.

[philipma1957]

That confirms it; theymos apparently thinks it's funny to joke about a disease outbreak that (by my guesstimate) will probably directly kill at least a million people

If you choose to see-as-evil acts which were clearly done in the spirit of fun & good faith, then you're creating demons for your personal living hell...

There is a rare worldwide shared cultural experience going on in the form of the pandemic and the resulting unprecedented social distancing policies. It's similar to a world war in terms of its widespread cultural significance. So this little game came to my mind to connect with it. As with several past bitcointalk.org April Fools things, it's more of a new/weird/fun way for people to interact with the forum and generate discussion, not a joke as such. Certainly it wasn't meant to somehow poke fun at the many real tragedies created by the coronavirus situation; it was meant to connect with the huge thing dominating the minds/lives of basically everyone on Earth.

I felt what you were trying to do.

But With my wife and my wifes 4 cousins already sick And with one of them on a ventilator it felt saddening to me.

I do feel better having deleted the two threads 🧵 with 1000 plus posts on them.

I won’t be doing any others as multiple people have asked me to keep the alt coin mining threads 🧵 and the other difficulty threads.

I also realized that my actions of deleting my self modded threads 🧵 may be like a bunch of morons not cooperating with the lockdowns. so I will leave the other threads up.

wishing all of you luck in your lives with corona-v.

[nullius]

@theymos, please open-source the forum virus tomorrow. :-)

Also, if it does not place too high a load on the forum’s servers, I suggest making it a feature which can be activated with a URL parameter so that those who find this amusing can track the spread of the virus in coming days.  We must track the spread of the virus!

* ñ͙̟̯̻͆̄̌̽ų̠̮̭̳̱̫̑̅ḽ͓̍͒̏̂͠l͕͈͍̟̼͈͔͔̘į̶͓̰̝̺̞́ǔ̪̺̣̈́͐ş̨̥̳̯͕̣͙͌͂́́ has a refined sense d’humour noir.

That confirms it; theymos apparently thinks it's funny to joke about a disease outbreak that (by my guesstimate) will probably directly kill at least a million people

If you choose to see-as-evil acts which were clearly done in the spirit of fun & good faith, then you're creating demons for your personal living hell...

There is a rare worldwide shared cultural experience going on in the form of the pandemic and the resulting unprecedented social distancing policies. It's similar to a world war in terms of its widespread cultural significance.

As someone whose personal life has become a smoking wreck the past few weeks and is at high personal health risk from COVID-19, I must thank you for the laughs.  Much needed right now.

This will not be the end of the world, unless ovine talking apes collectively choose to make it so.

As I remarked in WO before I found this thread—though of course, obviously, I am reading into this my own opinions as I have stated repeatedly:

I believe that I understand theymos’ point.

Lockdowns, unlimited government emergency powers, wrecking the economy, isolating ourselves from any human connection with each other:  We are doing all this, over coronavirus?

COVID-19 is bad.  But it is not Ebola, Black Death, or even smallpox.  So...  Seriously?

So this little game came to my mind to connect with it. As with several past bitcointalk.org April Fools things, it's more of a new/weird/fun way for people to interact with the forum and generate discussion, not a joke as such. Certainly it wasn't meant to somehow poke fun at the many real tragedies created by the coronavirus situation; it was meant to connect with the huge thing dominating the minds/lives of basically everyone on Earth.

As aforesaid, I read into it a serious message.  It did generate from me about as much serious discussion as I could bat out in a few lines.  What I did not read into it was any attempt to trivialize real-life tragedies; and I am not sure why anybody would take it that way, other than being overly sensitive.  Anyway...

I am dying to know the algorithm!

—Um, oops, “dying” was an inappropriate word here.  Hahah.

How did you avoid getting infected?

I had not posted in days.  And that was my first post in an active thread involving other people.  Before that, my only activity today was to create a new topic.

Hint:

News: The virus is now s̴͜͠p̶̰͝r̷̰̅e̶̦̽a̵̼͂d̴͉̑ỉ̷̖n̸̙̏g̷̬͝ even online; practice social distancing!

I seem to have caught it now.  I just checked Satoshi’s last post, and noticed that he has not caught it.

I infer that the more you interact with others on the forum today, the worse your posts will be infected.

P.S., I still intend to reply to theymos and others when I have time and energy to spare for a suitable essay.  Meanwhile, mmmphf mmm mmmm MMMMPH.

Thanks.  I thought I had myself covered; it is why I have had such difficulty communicating with the forum.

[Rengga Jati]

How come your not "infected" theymos

He is already infected, please check again. Logically, he is unlikely to make an exception (immune). It will ruin the fairness & excitement of this special day.

I don't want to quote it because it will infected.

But finally, you are already infected, buddy. No problem, just enjoy what's happening today. I, myself, won't avoid the virus infection because it is the sensation for today. It will be over soon after the end of this day. Then, we probably miss it.

[HI-TEC99]

the algorithm?

Zalgo text

https://lingojam.com/ZalgoText/