April Fools Wrap Up

Thanks for the usual April Fools Day flame- every year people fall for it. It never ceases to amaze me how angry and venomous, yet utterly clueless a few people can be despite the blatant obviousness of the joke. Lastly, jfengel sent us the annual April Fools RFC: RFC3251 describes "Electricity over IP" and RFC3252 on "Binary Lexical Octet Ad-hoc Transport" reformulates IP to work over XML."

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Congrats to Taco...

[not_cub]

...For his massive frontpage crapflood.

That was the april fool right? Taco the troll?

Oh.

not_cub

This Was Incredibly Lame

[RN]

This was not one of slashdot's finest days. I think most readers caught on pretty quick, I did, and immediately went surfing elsewhere.

Yes, it's april's fools day, but every joke has it's time and place and this was not it. It doesn't reflect well on you guys when slashdot is your work, and you don't even bother to take it seriously. I don't go into my workplace and put some lame aprils fools joke into my code. It's not only not professional, but it's just outright lame. It's good to know VA pays your salaries and servers for your own little amusement.

I know you guys have done this in the past, but I'm pretty sure I saw CmdrTaco say he wouldn't do this in the future because too many people bitched about it. Oh well. His rep of not taking reader input is legendary. And to put the onus on readers for not getting the joke is just asinine.

This is what slashdot subscriptions are for? I can't say the quality or speed or anything else for that matter has gotten any better since it was implemented. It's really not like I can't take a joke, but not only was this whole thing painfully unfunny, but it was just a complete waste.

pfft

[rossarian]

It's funny. Laugh.

No it's not. Flame.

[this text inserted to avoid the also-hilarious lameness filter]

Re:no, it hasn't been a fun day

[Bakajin]

For crying out loud, you people are fucking addicted to this place

I'm not addicted to anything, I do however like to read actual news and interesting things, not a day full of bullshit.

I like it better when it was just for Malda's personal amusement

Wow Mr User 65528, so sorry all the rest of us came here and ruined your little party. Why don't you go start your own damn website where you can post pointless and misleading crap for the rest of your life.... like I did, though not misleading.

I enjoy a witty joke as much as another person, but slashdot is suppose to be 'like' a community. That is what its success is built on, and it seems the majority of the community wasn't happy the time. I for one wouldn't mind seeing a minor appology. But after all, it isn't a real community. They own the website and they can do whatever they like. But I still say "fuck them" for doing it.