Reminder & Warning: April Fool's Day

[Pelianth]

Please remember that today (tommorrow) is April 1st, also known as April Fool's Day in the US and Canada (and various other places). Please be aware that some sites *cough*AnimeNewsNetwork*cough* will be posting joke articles and news announcements. ]

AOD does not participate in April Fool's Day. As such, anything posted on the front page will only be what has been confirmed.

Any and all joke news post need to be marked as such and put in the appropriate forum. And please stop to think before posting something. It may save you embarassment. /images/graemlins/wink.gif

[bci110]

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Pelianth said:Please be aware that some sites *cough*AnimeNewsNetwork*cough* will be posting joke articles and news announcements.

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Anime News Network reviewer Theron "Key" Martin posted this (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/bbs/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=22951) on the ANN forum:

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There aren't going to be any April Fools shenanigans this year. We of the staff had a discussion about it and a majority agreed that ANN's reputation made it improper for us to do something of that nature, given how easily postings on a well-known site like ours could be misconstrued as truth. (No matter how ridiculous it might sound, you know someone would believe it and start spreading it around.)

And yes, if something like that was going to happen, it would have been up right at midnight EST.

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So no April Fool's jokes at ANN. /images/graemlins/catgirl0.gif

[AnnaSartin]

No ANN April Fool's Jokes? O_O The HORROR!!! *goes off to sulk*

[Pelianth]

Awwwwwwwwww. That kinda bites.

And you realize they can't post *anything* today either. Because with everything they've done in the past, no one will believe them.

[Dagger]

Yeah, that's too bad. I was looking forward to seeing what they'd come up with. /images/graemlins/sad.gif

[bci110]

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Pelianth said:And you realize they can't post *anything* today either. Because with everything they've done in the past, no one will believe them.

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Yeah, that's true. They'll probably hold off on posting anything news-worthy until tomorrow or Monday.

Chris MacDonald hinted on their thread that ANN not having April Fool's jokes will be permanent, but the possibility of them returning remains. My take is that ANN should take AOD's lead and never again get involved in April Fool's Day.

[Pelianth]

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Pelianth said:And you realize they can't post *anything* today either. Because with everything they've done in the past, no one will believe them.

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Yeah, that's true. They'll probably hold off on posting anything news-worthy until tomorrow or Monday.

Chris MacDonald hinted on their thread that ANN not having April Fool's jokes will be permanent, but the possibility of them returning remains. My take is that ANN should take AOD's lead and never again get involved in April Fool's Day.

[/ QUOTE ]Yeah, truth be told, they were always half amusing and half annoying. And inevitably there would be someone who wasn't paying attention and instead would go all WTFOMGBBQ all over everyone else's forums.