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April Fooled; The REAL announcement
Topic Started: Apr 1 2006, 10:57 PM (2,199 Views)
The Kaiser
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dl316bh
Apr 2 2006, 08:23 PM

While some people don't mind being goodwill ambassadors for their particular ship and should be applauded for it (DeTroyes for BBxRae in general, X for BBxTerra in RBSU and Unfilar for Rob/Rae over in RBSU), quite a few people don't have the patience for it. Take TitansGo.net, that place is like one great big BBxRae hate fest and always has been. About the only BBxRae shippers that even go there every now and again are DeTroyes and Pliskin MacReady (maybe Sparky too, I don't know). I can't blame some of the members. I wouldn't have spazzed if it were real, but I WOULD have quietly left altogether. It's nothing to really hold against them in my view.

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Titansgo.net, believe it or not, really isn't that disdainful of Beastboy/Raven. There a good number of Beastboy/Raven shippers there, and I can assure you we don't assault them every chance we get.
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I am just glad this entire thing is over. But I do have a few things to say.

Go figure. ^_~

First of all, I would like to apologize. I am one of the staff members who decided to go along with the prank. I thought it would be funny, as I have seen it happen before, and everyone had a good laugh afterwards. Heck, my own parents did several things to me in the past. But it seems that I did not see the potential backlash that such a prank could have involved. True, I knew there would be some upset members, but I could not have forseen the limits to which the flaming and rudeness would grow. And it seems that, after I left, it only got worse. Thank goodness Jason ended it before all heck broke loose. If he hadn't, I probably would have, but that is chump change. The deal is that I am sorry.

Sorry. Me? Yes. I went along with it. I never did deny that it was all just a joke. Mostly, I tried to keep everyone calm. I even dropped hints here and there that it WAS just a prank. But seeing as how this got out of hand, I apologize to anyone and everyone that I may have offended personally. It was never my intention. Like I said before, I thought it would be a good prank, that it would be funny. But it seems that such was not true and feelings were hurt. I am sorry. I completely understand if anyone no longer supports me as a mod. It does not matter that this is my first time in such a position. I did not mean to make anyone mad or upset. That is the truth, and I am sorry if anyone believes I have done my job poorly and whatnot.

On another note, I was pleased to see so many people stick to their guns. It is wonderful to see that they would stand by their opinions and ship despite the change, however temporary and false it was.

However, it did hurt to see the number of flames and outright immaturity of some members. There is never an excuse for such behavior, regardless. I, personally, was upset that friendships could be so readily forgotten, or so it seemed from the posts that popped up. It is understandable that there would be those who are shocked and angry about the sudden change to the site they loved. But it would have been nice had they not barked at others for having different opinions.

Yeah. I sound so sappy and stupid. I know. I am SO glad this has blown over, though it saddens me to think that we have lost members. And over something so...trivial, really. Things should have turned out better than they did.

Once again, I apologize to anyone that I may have made angry or upset. Hopefully something of this magnitude will not happen next year. I, for one, will support something less for the joke. For now, I say we forgive one another, and move on.

Thank you.

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:worship: Exactly what I was going to say. I didn't expect it to go all out like this. And we truly are sorry about it. I'm quite surprised by how other members acted as well. But it's human nature and forgive you guys for that. Just be happy that we probobably aren't going to pull a stunt like that again. ^^
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The Kaiser
Apr 2 2006, 09:36 PM
dl316bh
Apr 2 2006, 08:23 PM

While some people don't mind being goodwill ambassadors for their particular ship and should be applauded for it (DeTroyes for BBxRae in general, X for BBxTerra in RBSU and Unfilar for Rob/Rae over in RBSU), quite a few people don't have the patience for it. Take TitansGo.net, that place is like one great big BBxRae hate fest and always has been. About the only BBxRae shippers that even go there every now and again are DeTroyes and Pliskin MacReady (maybe Sparky too, I don't know). I can't blame some of the members. I wouldn't have spazzed if it were real, but I WOULD have quietly left altogether. It's nothing to really hold against them in my view.

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Titansgo.net, believe it or not, really isn't that disdainful of Beastboy/Raven. There a good number of Beastboy/Raven shippers there, and I can assure you we don't assault them every chance we get.

I see. I guess it's gotten better over there then. I just distinctly remember my times lurking there as being the worst. I never even bothered to sign up. Times change though, so I suppose the place may very well have gotten better since I stopped going. But you have to admit, it was pretty bad there for awhile, and from what I hear the site was in a bit of an uproar around when issue 30 came out. I apologize, Kaiser, if my statement touched a nerve. I haven't had the best experience over there and other BBxRae shippers seemed to have had worse in the past from what I've heard.

Not to worry Changeling, I still support you as a mod. I'm merely dismayed that things got so out of hand, as I've stated before. But again, immaturity of some members or not, most of the are young, and even older people can be immature about things too. I'm just trying to be the mediator here on the blame game. Really there isn't any one group it can be blamed on.

People overreact. It's a fact of life and it can't be avoided. It was just a stupid April Fools prank, but people took it seriously and overreacted, and the mods kept promoting it. Hey, no one party to fault.

We'll all laugh in the future, but I agree that next years prank, if there is one, shouldn't be so... big or controversial I guess.
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Apr 2 2006, 11:22 PM

I see. I guess it's gotten better over there then. I just distinctly remember my times lurking there as being the worst. I never even bothered to sign up. Times change though, so I suppose the place may very well have gotten better since I stopped going. But you have to admit, it was pretty bad there for awhile, and from what I hear the site was in a bit of an uproar around when issue 30 came out. I apologize, Kaiser, if my statement touched a nerve. I haven't had the best experience over there and other BBxRae shippers seemed to have had worse in the past from what I've heard.

Not to worry Changeling, I still support you as a mod. I'm merely dismayed that things got so out of hand, as I've stated before. But again, immaturity of some members or not, most of the are young, and even older people can be immature about things too. I'm just trying to be the mediator here on the blame game. Really there isn't any one group it can be blamed on.

People overreact. It's a fact of life and it can't be avoided. It was just a stupid April Fools prank, but people took it seriously and overreacted, and the mods kept promoting it. Hey, no one party to fault.

We'll all laugh in the future, but I agree that next years prank, if there is one, shouldn't be so... big or controversial I guess.

Thanks. I really needed to hear that, believe me. I agree with your statements, too. Things got out of hand. Next year, we should do something a lot less...likely to insight a World War. Yeah. Tell everybody I'm leaving or something. No big deal there, right?

Though I know a lot of you will be emotionally crushed by it. Ah, just kidding. We need laughter, especially after the past few hours. Laughter does the body, and mind, good. ^_^

Yeah, I am so glad this is over. That sounds like a broken record, huh? 'Tis the truth, however. Like I said, in that now infamous thread, everything will be okay. I promise.

And now I turn in for the night. Got early classes tomorrow. And it's college crunch time. *cries*

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Well, i'm just happy it was prank. Man, You had me fooled for the whole day, you know, i totally forgot it was april fool's day, i really forgot. So, i'm just glad to see everything back to normal again. Sweet Prank, thats going to be my memory for a good time :wink:
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That was very wise to do a prank like this. I'm not kidding. That was a good test, and I'm just happy that the change wasn't for real. :)
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Jeez...All of you, all 760 members of you are...(and you may quote me on this) completely insane.

But for me, that was totally HILARIOUS! XD!

Some of the members' posts concerned me, taking the joke a little too serious and being a little...(This would be an understatement) over dramatic...*shudders*
Glad I wasn't in this fiasco.

...And for some of you members, I really hope you guys haven't taken this love for this coupling as so far as to make into an official religion.
Because that would be just plain disturbing.

(Lord, I hope you don't have shrines in the back of your closets)

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How did you know? :worship: All hail BBRae! When shipping I think it's as serious as a religion BM. :lol:
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Apr 3 2006, 06:56 PM
Jeez...All of you, all 760 members of you are...(and you may quote me on this) completely insane.

But for me, that was totally HILARIOUS! XD!

Some of the members' posts concerned me, taking the joke a little too serious and being a little...(This would be an understatement) over dramatic...*shudders*
Glad I wasn't in this fiasco.

...And for some of you members, I really hope you guys haven't taken this love for this coupling as so far as to make into an official religion.
Because that would be just plain disturbing.

(Lord, I hope you don't have shrines in the back of your closets)

Well that thought entered my head more than once. Good to have you back, Bluemage. Maybe you can insert some sanity back into TBRS...but I doubt it. :P
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craZy made the sig and avy!

*eats needlez* THERE! Weren't expecting that, were--
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Ow. Ow ow. OWWWWWWWWWW!!!

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Apr 3 2006, 08:17 PM
Well that thought entered my head more than once. Good to have you back, Bluemage. Maybe you can insert some sanity back into TBRS...but I doubt it. :P

...What is this..."sanity" of which you speak?
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Apr 3 2006, 07:32 PM
...What is this..."sanity" of which you speak?

I'm not sure...I think I read it somewhere...

No idea what it means though...

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*eats needlez* THERE! Weren't expecting that, were--
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Ow. Ow ow. OWWWWWWWWWW!!!

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Apr 3 2006, 06:56 PM
Jeez...All of you, all 760 members of you are...(and you may quote me on this) completely insane.

Hey! I'm not one of them.

>_>

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I run around in a box proclaiming that I am the Box Of Doom. I think I qualify as insane.

*wears pin that says "Crazy and proud of it"*

Insane in the membrane.
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Apr 4 2006, 05:01 AM
Hey! I'm not one of them.

You are the O Mighty Creator Of The Insanity...you...big...insane...um...insane...person! XD.

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