YouTube's Ready To Select a Winner

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YouTube's Ready To Select a Winner

Posted by samzenpus on Monday April 1, 2013 @03:29AM from the this-is-it dept.

Proudrooster writes "From YouTube. 'Thanks for all your great entries. YouTube finally has enough videos to begin selecting a winner. We've been thrilled with all of the diverse, creative entries we've seen so far, and we can't wait to begin the process of selecting the best video (video). We'll be announcing the winner in 10 years. All videos will be deleted within the next 24 hours. What do you think is the #bestvideo on YouTube?"

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Please make it stop by Anonymous Coward · 2013-04-01 03:31 · Score: 5, Insightful

This is lame even for slashdot.
1. Re:Please make it stop by Anonymous Coward · 2013-04-01 03:34 · Score: 5, Informative
  
  I concur :-( Please, STOP. This plainly sucks.
2. Re:Please make it stop by Reapy · 2013-04-01 03:37 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  April Fools, we drove away half of our readers! HA HA HA :(
3. Re:Please make it stop by Cinder6 · 2013-04-01 03:43 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  It's especially lame with an RSS reader. Well, I guess my productivity will be slightly higher today.
  
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4. Re:Please make it stop by cristiroma · 2013-04-01 04:03 · Score: 3, Insightful
  
  If this means getting rid of THAT part of ./ readers, then ... I suggest to put -1 comments as MD5, too :P
5. Re:Please make it stop by NatasRevol · 2013-04-01 04:10 · Score: 4, Informative
  
  Yeah, it's almost like they've never done this before.
  Except for every April 1.
  
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6. Re:Please make it stop by Anonymous Coward · 2013-04-01 04:15 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  I don't even see the encrypted version anymore...All I see is blonde, brunette, redhead...
7. Re:Please make it stop by MacGyver2210 · 2013-04-01 04:22 · Score: 4, Insightful
  
  Can you really not stand to not read Slashdot for one day if it bothers you that much? Are you really complaining about their free news aggregation community that has been a longstanding staple of the tech world? Do you really think one AF prank is going to alienate readers who have been here for decades?
  You are a true April fool.
  
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Yay by Intrepid+imaginaut · 2013-04-01 03:38 · Score: 5, Funny

I don't know if I'm talking in Welsh or summoning Cthulhu.
1. Re:Yay by CanHasDIY · 2013-04-01 03:40 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  There's a difference?
  
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2. Re:Yay by dmatos · 2013-04-01 05:20 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Summoning Cthulhu is a little bit easier on the throat.
  
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Bring back the ponies... by Ecuador · 2013-04-01 03:42 · Score: 4, Funny

Dammit slashdot, I can tell it's an annoying April fool's when I reminisce about the good old days with the ponies...

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Wonderful! by Anna+Merikin · 2013-04-01 03:50 · Score: 5, Funny

Now I can skip the articles and start posting right away, just like I did before, except I can now use the excuse that the TFA was in gibberish.
Re:How by rjr162 · 2013-04-01 04:10 · Score: 2

I think it speaks volumes when theres a ROT13 translator here:
OnlineRot13 Translation
www.retards.org/projects/rot13/
Pretty fitting domain name...
Re:Please make it stop WITH A HOSTS FILE! by SilentStaid · 2013-04-01 06:08 · Score: 2

This is the first time that I've really had a good laugh at one of these posts. Thank you, sir.