Hunkering down.

[gridlore]

I avoid the net on April 1st. Not just because it's a traditional date for viruses to go active, but because I find April Fool's Day to be extremely annoying. 90% of the jokes are just frakking idiotic, and I'm not in the mood to wade through several thousand lame attempts at humor. To wit; what NationStates did this morning. They thought it would be hilarious to make it look like all our accounts had been hacked, and went so far as to post insultiung messages under our accounts on regional forums. When people complained, we were told to "grow a sense of humor."

Because of this, I'm deleting my account. I have a sense of humor. I've made money with my sense of humor. Stealing my online identity on a site where I've worked hard to establish a good reputation and playing games with it is not funny.

So I'm spending the day playing games and watching DVDs. I'll be back when the crazy stops.

Comments

[op-tech-glitch.livejournal.com]

By the way, did you hear Betty White died (http://community.livejournal.com/wtf_inc/8139572.html)??

[kshandra]

...seriously? WOW, that's crass.

[kengr]

That sounds like it's arguably *illegal*. Posting messages as your users is almost certainly violating several laws.

The fact that it was intended as a "joke" doesn't change that.

I rather hope some bored lawyer out there decides top see how far he can push it under things like identify theft and damage of reputation type laws. As well as various security related laws. (I'm pretty sure that even though they own the systems, this counts as "hacking")

[jursamaj.livejournal.com]

I didn't notice the event, but it turns out they *didn't* post any messages under anybody's name. They made it look to each member as if they had, but such messages weren't actually posted for others to see.

Still a pretty poor attempt at humor.