Topic: Theymos and April fools, 2020 preempt (Read 1607 times)

Did the OP's name always look like this?



In his profile it appears as palle11.

This is a day that we can feel the nervous even if its obviously an April fools entry. Right now, we are still waiting for the trick of Theymos, well he never disappoint. Some crypto related social accounts are already posting their entry, CMC got a toiletpapercoin I hope they’ll produce more supply to all of us.  

Hey theymos! No April fools this time for us? Hope you and your family are safe. hacker1001101001 told the truth that we are badly stuck into worst situations which aren't letting us enjoy this great new year with many opportunities. Anyways, I had one another thought today itself instead of what I told before - theymos would have removed our airdropped merits and told us that now it's mandatory to earn merits to reach back to your membership levels.  

Coinmarketcap has started the April fools. Nice to see it, very creative. Now everybody knows that there is rank 0 on CMC.
I can't wait for something happening on our forum. It will be surprising if all signatures disappear suddenly on April 1, 2020. Or everybody gets a message from theymos and required to do something to secure their accounts.  

Where's HoweyCoin?

#BinancePonziCap

This! I'll appreciate anything that takes he attention away from the current world crisis rather than a joke which has a deeper sad meaning. The news is all over the place, a couple of hours without discussing it won't be a bad idea.

Trully... I remembered seeing an image on Facebook...



I just hoped we can...

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Just an Idea of this year's April Fools... I think theymos will just make an announcement on having a cure on that pandemic Virus LoL.

Has anyone here been asking for me?
Or was it just an April Fool's joke?

Theymos will change the rank requirements like decreasing the require merit and many people will pop out and just wanted to rank up. We really can't predict what theymos is up to this april fool's day. Let's see what gimmick theymos will do this year and how many people will get fooled. I was going to post about april's fools day but most threads are about covid19 so I decide not to until you created one.

That's pathetic, I'm so offended! I hope this is a joke.

Exactly! I've seen great jokes about Corona already, although April Fools jokes don't need to be about the pandemic.

Meanwhile in the Netherlands: Bavaria turns beer into disinfecting hand gel (video is in Dutch).


Initially, I tried to stop this topic from getting bumped today, but it's too late now, so I can just as well post here too.

I think theymos is a man with a good sense of humor and long before today maybe he has prepared surprises for all forum users whether it is permanent or only temporary. Lets wait a few hours from now, and if theymos cancel the April plan this year then I think its also surprising because we have been waiting for it a few days or a few hours from now.

You had me there btw

It's so pathetic, living through each day with constant fear for myself and loved ones all because of the;
China
Originated
Virus
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December 2019

Another KYC fool?   I will not forget the last April fool  

Really? or just guessing buddy? Theymos has made any announcements about this April fool? Already answered during typing.

BTW, In my opinion, people will not much surprised because many people in this now aware of April fool after became a fool in 2019. Only few hours left to see how theymos make us fool again . let's wait a few hours.

I was trying to make a funny bruh!

What is the SAUCE of your information  

With almost everything on lockdown, I'd say we could use some spirit lifting joke

I would be ok if theymos doesn't fool anyone as peoples in the world are already fooling themself in 2020.

Fuck CHY-NA !

Worst news I saw today : Coronavirus in sewage portended Covid-19 outbreak in Dutch city

theymos has cancelled plans for his annual April Fools joke because the whole fucking year is a joke!



Fuck CHY-NA

We've got a mole somewhere ladies, and gents.

Although,  I can see your point there is often many comedians which joke about current events, no doubt COVID-19 has been part of that. I understand that some comedians do get into trouble fairly regular, and British comedian Ricky Gervais comes to mind, however I think sometimes comedians are at their funniest when tackling sensitive topics. The thing is their audience knows its a joke, and most of the time its the news that try, and bury their career.

I'm glad you posted this, I think with Google a lot of people only know about their search engine, and trust them as an authoritative source. So, it would probably be wrong to display incorrect information about COVID-19, and probably jokes would be slightly more distasteful if they were to do it. However, Bitcointalk is a forum about Bitcoin, and cryptocurrencies primarily. People aren't coming here for Cornavirus news, unless it relates to Bitcoin in some way. I think Google should continue doing a april fools, but should probably steer clear of something related to the pandemic. However, I don't think Bitcointalk has the same weight on its shoulders due to it being a forum, and not having the authority or services that Google have to offer when in relation with the current pandemic.

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/technology/490321-google-will-skip-april-fools-day-jokes-amid-coronavirus-report

Google is apparently canceling their April Fool’s Day jokes for this year due to the Pandemic.

On one hand, a lot of people could probably use a laugh or a joke right now, however on the other hand, it is important that people can trust authoritative sources of information and April Fool’s Day jokes are not real information.

Unlimited merit for a short period of time, it seems you really really expect it dude😂. lol
But I'm sure theymos will give a different April fools surprise to what people in this thread say.

#MeritReallyBrokeMyLife ✌😂

Haha. Now that is hilarious. I guess the day just got more visibility. With that being said, joking about identifying as an 'attack helicopter' will be offensive to many people as you're making a mockery of their beliefs, but that doesn't mean people shouldn't joke about it (and my point was I'm sure many people here wouldn't have found issue with joking about it but people seem to only complain when they personally find something offensive). And Just to clarify, I'm on about the idiots within those communities not everyone in them. I'm all for trans/gay rights etc, but not the ones who insist you have to call them by their "astral" gender (or whatever gender they've made up that day) and those who think it's ok for toddlers to transition etc.

I remember last year april fools post of theymos got me laughing like crazy, it is because of the gender thingy that has too many options 

But honestly, i was answering the kyc seriously.

Theymos would launch an airdrop of merit-backed stable coins and everyone will need to register and provide kyc to bitcointalk exchange.

~~well another kyc 

Reading through all the posts in this thread and realized that @suchmoon, you are the most evil member on the forum. 😈

Um, was that really called for? On International Transgender Day of Visibility, no less?

To refresh everyone here!

theymos list of prank posts:

• KYC now required
• [ANN][ICO]HoweyCoins: the only Bitcointalk-endorsed ICO - GUARANTEED PROFIT
• New new rank requirements

Im not sure If I miss something..

Ive noticed its always related to very common issue on cryptocurrency and forum topics. Such as, forum ranking, merits, ico scamming, and kyc implementation. But for the sake of April fools I wish it isnt something about Craig Wright its been months of April fools already.

I suggested members have to hold down their spacebar whilst they blow into the microphone to prove they don't have corona before they can't proceed.


Boo-hoo. I'm sure the transgenders and gender-fluid idiots would have thought being able to choose your gender as an attack helicopter last year was in bad taste but I bet you wouldn't have complained about that.


Pay no attention to the buzzkills above. PC culture is killing comedy. If there's one thing we should be joking about right now it is the coronavirus.

You guys made me feel ashamed...

I was not intend to make laugh of COVID-19... Maybe "prank" was the wrong word to use...My idea was - the whole World if crazy about COVID-19, so why not "use" it on April 1 ? Once again, my intention was not to make fun of it, but, may be, to remind why it is important to wash hands and or to observe simple hygiene rules (that is why I wrote "ask to upload photo of washing hands").

Don't know now...I'd better delete that post...

This ranks as one of the stupidest things I've read on the intertubes in the last few weeks, up there with all the "miracle cure" bullshit.

That would be in very bad taste.

He wont get away that easy

He could do some prank with connection to COVID-19 virus. Remember how he announced, that KYC is now required to join forum? He could ask to upload photo of you "washing hands", so you wont get infected by COVID-19 while posting on the forum. Or upload a signed confirmation that you and your family recently haven't visited most-affected countries, so that the virus wont sneak to the forum and infect its 2766137 members.

No one knows until has been done . We all knew how Theymos was so imaginative when it comes to pranks so it was really hard to predict what he will do this year. The best we can do I guess is to forget about this for the meantime so that we can still feel the excitement when the day comes.

But what if, just a WHAT IF, because of this thread Theymos choose to not prank us this year since we are now anticipating it already and busy predicting on his setup? Ironically, doing nothing this year could be a great prank also .

Another one for making a guess for the upcoming event.
But I will be expecting that theymos will give another round for Unlimited Merits for a short period of time. A flood that makes me more happy, LoL.

Makes me wonder in who will be the one to put up a little bit merchandise again ✌😂

#MeritReallyBrokeMyLife

Most likely outcome, thanx to this thread.

I think he gonna April fool us by not having April fool prank this time 

Or
There has been substantial proof that Craig Wright is the real satoshi so the forum has decided it would be better to hand over the ownership to the real owner.

Nobody in the right mind would do that even as a joke

I heard a rumor the forum will be rolling out AI technology that works with your computer's camera in order to ensure that only users wearing gloves and a mask can access the site due to Coronavirus fears.

What about bitcointalk to become bitcoinsvtalk due to the financial reasons, as bsv pumps were just made for CSW to gather the funds big enough to buy the forum with all its users and unlock Satoshis account? 

Everytime you post/make a new thread, your merit will be reduced.
Or make everyone rank back to newbie.....

Ops... Why this thread ? People will be aware of the april fool, They will jot be surprised much  

My thinking are,,
1. Signature campaign will be banned.[ maybe someone already guess this]
2. Some accounts will be banned and it will not unbanned if they don't make x amount of bitcoin.  

Edit: It also may occur "Merit system would be withdrawn for atleast a day, and all member who already achieve the activity requirements can see they ranked up according to activity. "

Why would that be amusing? Kicking scammers out of the trust system is not as ironic as many in meta would have you believe.

It is far more of a troll to allow scammers and their supporters to run the trust system and brand whistle blowers as scammers.

I think theymos should remove the trust exclusion from a huge scammer, extortionist, dangerous greedy escrow, trust abuser wink wink ?..Oh damn, that was valentine's day. I'll try to think of something nearly as hilarious.

I'm no lawyer, but that might be seen as impersonation and thus illegal.
And it would be annoying

After the drama with game-protect and all the threats that they will closed down bitcointalk if they get banned (which actually happened a few days ago), I think theymos can pull this joke quite successful. Just redirect the main page to

So another April fools day is already here. Wow... Thanks for the reminder and the title about preempting Theymos is cool too. Let us see what surprise he has to throw at the forum this time.

However, I got freaked out when he introduced something like classification to every account that seem to speak on the personality of owners and I think, that also threw the forum into much worry until it was unraveled as April fools.
I'm sure that with this thread, users will be ready for this April 1. This is a nice reminder

Pop-up ads of boner pills and penis enlargement clinics that accept Bitcoin.

Maybe theymos decides to take an educational approach. He could create a Bitcointalk phishing site and redirect traffic to it to see how many users pay attention to what they are doing. It would be interesting to see that stats for such a thing.

We already saw KYC thing happen last year.. I don't know how far it can go from that point up. Maybe recognize Craig Steven Wright as the real Satoshi..(hope not), temp ban everyone for spamming or just put captcha on every post.
Log in as Satoshi and write "I'm back"
Put a minimum of 1000 required characters in each post, well CH and alts won't feel the fun tho.

I'm sure he, Theymos knows better not to play "heavy" prank on a day that is not known as April fools day. I think April fools day have already been known worldwide and pranks played on the day before 12pm or at most, 12pm is allowed incase anything goes wrong with the receiver of such message. I think the court has taken judicial notice of April 1 and time limitation/bound for it,  I think so though.

Who has even researched on the history of April 1 called as April fools day. I hope users can do that....

I believe that when we're already talking about this, theymos may decide not to play any prank on 1st April and would rather decide some other date to do so, just to let users think that he's serious but it'd come out to be an April fool later on. I think he'll just disable PM feature so not to let some user give a death threat to another famous entity.

He could announce that the new forum is ready, create a table, and request users to enter their usernames and passwords for easier database merging.
After that we just sit back and watch what happens. 

Whatever in theymos mind for the next April's fool, I don't care.

I'm not gonna fall to his joke anymore, not this year!

They're often staff-suggested ones or at least staff suggest additions. I'm still hoping the one I've been suggesting for years gets done  . It's simple but effective and I know it will get a lot of people even if it's only brief. I'm not going to say what it is but maybe if it doesn't get done this year I will.


We can take a day off whenever we want, though I wouldn't say no to paid holiday and sick leave  (though I think that's one of the reasons why we technically aren't employees so they don't have to offer that and I also can't sue theymos for the sexual harassment he keeps sending me via PMs  ).


That has been suggested in the past along with announcing that signature campaigns are now banned.

Giving mods a day off means they have to find "25th hour" in next few days to fix the disaster made on forum during their rest
Imho, the best solution for a "day off for mods" is to disable post button for a day, but to warn about it long before.

This is a picture of theymos:

There is no need to publish this for an April fools joke

Craig Wright winning as claimed to be Satoshi then closing bitcointalk as well at 2th April 2020

Or , would he publish a picture as his real identity? If he has before, I have not seen it  
Or maybe clearing the satoshi identify stuff as April fools.

It's a joke every day of the year, it doesn't need anything special for April Fools

Completely agree with you. I forgot that April Fools day will after few weeks, so, theymos prank would fun surprise for me. But when everyone is talking about it, it's not that fan. Now I know that when I will visit Bitcointalk on April 1st, first question in my mind will be "what did theymos made for this year April fools day?" and I won't be fooled.

You are not wrong on that , time flies so fast .
A year is nothing and if you looking around a bit the next one is gone too.

Maybe we got some kind of message from theymos  " The new Forum Software is finished and Ready for use soon " .
Looking forward to what will come this year 

Late in the day on March 31, create a thread from theymos_away saying that he needs April fools pranks quickly. After a random interval between 30 and 600 seconds, any post written in the thread will be deleted and once their post is deleted AND they have viewed a new page, they are banned for 10 minutes, reason: “especially bad post in April fools day thread”. If they try to post in the thread a second time, their post will again get deleted and will be banned a second time, this time for reason: “ban evasion” with the ban time doubled.

The only exception to having your post in the thread deleted would be if you have posted at least 1000 posts with receiving zero merit, or posting at least 2000 posts and as of a snapshot before the thread is created, have received no more than 1 merit per 1000 posts they have posted.

After a few hours, the thread can be bumped with a message saying that most suggestions were not very good and that more suggestions are needed.

Theymos will send MPs to "reputable" members, as well as to "controversial" members to ask them if they want to be moderator, but the next day he will send another MP saying he made a mistake.

I'm told he's already done that April fool's :

(https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.53919108)

Invert all trust inclusions and exclusions.

Of course, they already had enough days off. If not, how will a shit post like my comment not get deleted. 

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I think Theymos should just reveal himself as Satoshi on the D-Day and end the CW claim, simple.

Theymos has a very good sense of humor and every joke he makes us believe in what's going on. I remember how confused I was in the first seconds when I read that KYC was introduced in the forum.   The first thought was to go prepare the documents.

I think it's unrealistic to guess his new joke, but most of all I liked marlboroza's idea with signatures. It would be just a bomb for those who forgot about April Fool's Day.  

I got fooled hard two years ago while still growing on the forum... Lol

Maybe someone's guess might give Theymos harder task for his April 1 job. That could mean unbelievable surprises might be left permanent. 

Change forum styling to vomit colors based on something ridiculous, like one's merit score (e.g. if it ends in 3 - you get pink on lime).

Theymos and Lauda got engaged lol..

LMAO I could still vividly remember all those people who posted their personal identification documents on that one forum thread.

Jeebus. I could already see all those posts on how Theymos has already moved to the dark side.

Ban LoyceV for a day to make the crying more believable.

Banning all gangs for a month. That would be great.

- Open a Bitcointalk offspring forum using Epochtalk, and state that, due to technical unsurpassable incompatibilities, account migration is not possible and people must rush there to create their account there, before someone takes their profile name. Alas, all accounts will start from scratch as Newbies., but first earlybirds will be granted a special rank (Nitwit Member).

- Display a message on profiles displaying a list of all suspected Alt accounts of each profile.

- Reinstate all banned accounts for a day, pardoning any account capable of earning 10 (legit) merits during the day.

Edit:
- This may be feasable: Have all ranks state Newbie and UserName = Guest for the day.

Why man...

You have just ruined the fun here...

I like surprises lol.

You have just reminded everyone that they are going to be fooled again.

I was thinking of asking crying in Meta why LoyceV got banned

Give moderators a day off.

Theymos could create a new trust system where users with 10 earned merit or more get to vote for DT1 members.  
That's bound to stir up some drama.

Theymos claiming to be Satoshi 

Move the forum to the gigameg BSV blockchain.

Or maybe removing the merit and ranking up every member "temporarily "to a rank they would have been if not for merit system.
This will definitely get the forum more legendary members than envisaged...  lol

It's definitely not just you, and it gets worse as you get older (lol).

And like last year, we've got members like OP trying to spoil the fun--April fools jokes work so much better when there's not a community discussion about them.  The element of surprise is key to them working IMO, because there will always be some members who aren't aware of the tradition and will be completely fooled by it.  Thus I think it best if talk about this coming April 1st is kept to a minimum.

The funniest in my experience was when Theymos introduced all those different attributes like "politeness" and all that.  There were a lot of people who took it seriously and flooded Meta with "WTF?" threads.  It's hard to top that, but I'm sure Theymos could do it if he tried.

I have heard that he will disable signatures for few days and he will tell everyone that this will remain permanently.
Or was it that he will disable signatures permanently and tell everyone it will be for few days? Not sure

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Is it just me or time flies so fast?

At least for the past two years on the forum , I have witnessed that Theymos has come up with different mind blowing gimmicks for the April fools day and so many users would fall for the moment getting the whole forum a new discussion and threads apart from the routine bitcoin and crypto talk for like three days to a week.

Therefore exactly a month today, we are going to wake up with another April fools day on the forum.

Let us reminisce on the last gimmicks Theymos played on the forum on April 1 and which one caught you    

Again, what do you think he can come up for this year, let us preempt him. I'm not sure he can offer 0.01btc for every active user or randomly  

Or.... Is Theymos likely to keep quiet as April fools too ?