Topic: Who was your April fool Best? - page 3. (Read 625 times)

The best April fool jokes are the ones that make people feel dumb for believing it. I'd say Royse777 nailed it!

Theymos, although fun, has the problem that he does something every year and it's strongly anticipated. You can't trick people if they're expecting it.

Buahahaha that was good enough if someone fell on that trick. Anyway I look forward to more fun events in the future. Thanks for the reference thread anyways.

If I am not wrong. You are talking about his Game Cracking code? Well, That wasn't april fool.
Apart from Cracking that game code, TryNinja fooled his bot users by sending fake merit Notification from Satoshi.
You can read more from this thread https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.62013030
I won't say it was successful enough because of the HTML error. He did not get me this time. But, Some forum members were fooled. shahzadafzal was one of them. He literally searched his post history and checked satoshi's last active date and merit history 

This was somewhat predictable, ie something like this, based on previous April Fools Jokes on the forum that I can remember.
At least for anyone who's been on these forums for a few years was expecting something... newer members might well have been fooled though!


Probably the most effective one for sure, even if not to everyone's tastes.


Sounded quite good, though not very plausible!

Review on April Fools pranks:

@theymos
-for some people it is annoying and frustrating but for us who enjoyed challenge like me, it was still annoying and frustrating but because of that I played along and wanted to prove that there are humans out there who's ready to beat the system and refused to lose against robots and AI's.


@Royce777
-it was already pretty obvious for me since the rate isn't really normal, but I still chose to be fooled (who knows if those opportunities are real, I didn't want to be left behind). It only shows how I am desperate to join campaigns  , but in terms of effort? He really pulled that off. He's the man, imagine risking his thread and reputation just to pull off pranks like that. I really hate you royce you hurt my feelings  .

@TryNinja
-I haven't tried his pranks personally due to I didn't like to install things immediately even if they say it's safe and secure.I don't want to ruin my PC any further coz it's already ruined and I didn't have money yet to buy/build new parts/computer.  

Royse's attempt was actually great but when he didn't respond whether it was April Fool or not and when he mentioned that he held 5 bitcoin in his wallet for campaign and when I checked the rates of Pay Per Post, I was like, definitely it's an April Fool party, on top, on time, so why not to follow party and make it look like a real?
Overall, great attempt!

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Theymos's - This is my first time to see these jokes on this forum, so, I wasn't expecting such surprise from admins. When I wanted to submit post, I was like, wtf is this? Then I checked Meta board and when I read that owner added AI-enhanced CAPTCHA that would identify low-IQ people and it was actually flappy bird game, I was like, oh, gotcha, today is April 1.

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TryNinja's - Thanks him again for this! HTML ruined the party, but wait, that's not over.

I would say Royse777's April fools was the most successful April Fools within the forum. Every year theymos came up with a new idea, and it was apparent that he would come up with another thing on the 1st of April. So, it was expected from him. TryNinja tried to fool his bot users in his way. But he messed up with the HTML. I tried to add a little bit by selling Coins. None of them looks successful enough.

But, Here, Royse777 Nailed it. Almost everyone got fooled by this prank. Some of us had doubts but did not want to miss the opportunity. So yeah. He got us all. @Royse777, Well Done, my Man!  

When I woke up on April 1st when I went to post I was shocked to see yesterday's captcha game and when I failed to complete the captcha I was very stupid to see "This User Is a suspected Spammer"above my post. Because this was the first April Fools event in my life on a bitcoin forum.
@Theymos admin Sir yesterday's April event was really a new experience in my life. I hope to encounter April Fools in better and different ways in the future.

@Royse777 campaign manager's April Fool's incident is really commendable because it was really hard to guess if it was April Fool's or not. Hundreds of users were fooled by his April Fools incident and in my opinion it was one of the best April Fools in bitcoin forums in 2023.

Theymos didn't get me this time as, I was in expectation of some trick and the CAPTCHA could do little to solving that which haven't been such a huge issue on the forum just yet. Though, the length it went to programme and put something out is commendable. He makes us steam and let off steams everytime.

Royse777! Royse777 killed it this time. He did beat a lot of users and myself at some point. Using his position and disposition to prevent what we most like in a fashion that is suspicious but yet, very difficult to resist. Nice one Royse777,  I could say you won this round with numbers you pulled.

I didn't see nothing from TryNinja. From my scanning provided link, I couldn't make the findings and besides, the thread isn't from April 1st but a later date.

Theymos April fool almost got me worried because I couldn't meet up to pass captcha process, although all users almost got pranked but some knew it was a pranks.

For Royse777, I didn't even look at it because I knew it can't be true to be able to afford those payments for workers.
All the same the April fool really pulled out people's legs, who knows what next year would be and how tougher to pass the captcha again.

As always, it's a game that involves the whole community. This year's was not as convincing, but it was one of the most fun.
I believe that all users who posted during the day made a good number of attempts. Even though I knew it was all just a joke.
Of course, probably a good number of users actually believed it to be true.
It was certainly another good bet for Theymos.



Of the three mentioned, this one was really well crafted.
I think all current campaign participants, for a few minutes, wondered if it was true or not. Because the topic was very well constructed, and the "true" topic is locked.
Many, who understand less how the forum works to this day, certainly fell for this lie, and signed up convinced that it was a legitimate campaign.
Without a doubt, Royse777 has outdone itself this year. Will he be able to do better next time?



I believe that everyone who uses the bot, looked at the notification twice, to understand what was going on.
Although it was probably the lie that was most quickly caught, the surprise it generated in the first 30 seconds was interesting.
TryNinja was caught because of the HTML code, but this was certainly preparation for future situations, which may come as a surprise.



I think that's all three congratulations, it's been a fun day here on the forum.

Theymos's April Fool were fun but pretty similar to last year's. So everyone can easily understand that it was April Fool. So the fun is a little less then last year.

Royse777 The strategy was excellent and very realistic.  Especially the previous topic of Sinbad Mixer was locked and MOVE was written and then the link of the new topic was posted on the old thread it was totally realistic. Seeing this, most of the users got fooled and applied in a hurry. even i am also 

I had no qualms about it.  And I didn't see much user fuss about it. As seen in Royse777's strategy.

Non was best, the whole April fool prank was so boring. Fuck April fool! 

Theymos: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/new-captcha-now-required-before-posting-5447077

Royse777: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/april-fool-re-launch-sinbad-signature-campaign-reward-up-to-350w-5447104

TryNinja: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/telegram-yet-another-bitcointalk-notification-bot-merits-mentions-topics-5248878

In my opinion, Royse777 pulled out a perfect one