Since this is one April 1st thread thats still going....I had pretty good responses to my April 1st joke:
https://www.rocketryforum.com/showthread.php?t=10456
Some of you might not have seen it since it was listed as news about Ares-1 and the shuttle and many may not go for checking out every message mentioning NASA News.
Anyway, there was one place I posted it where it got a strange reaction.
NASAspaceflight.com, in their forum section (General section).
Well, the readers there liked it, at least the ones who replied. But hours after I posted it, and I went back to look for more responses, it was GONE. I posted a message asking what happened (careful NOT to post the link to the April Fools joke itself). And minutes later, that message was gone. So I posted a message asking again why my messages were disappearing, and that the moderators should at least explain why. Of course minutes later that message was gone.
Finally I got a private reply from a moderator who told me it was removed because April 1st had ended. He sent me that message at around 8 PM April 1st.
I replied and pointed out it was still April 1st where I was, and surely he did not expect everyone who checks out their site to do it during daytime and not to log on for the first time that day at night, once they got home from work. But in a reply to that, he claimed that April Fools day ends at noon. Really, there is a April Fools Association somewhere who made up that rule, and all non-members are supposed to abide by them?
Jim, I hope you did your April Fools joke (rockets canceled, replaced by knitting) on that class before noon or you were in violation of the OFFICIAL April Fool rules.
Upscaler, you posted this thread after noon, so you broke the law.
He also said in that second message that some had complained for wasting 2 minutes of their time (wow, theres that many who use that forum who are on dial-up to cause the page to take 2 minutes to load? No, even when I was on AOL dial-up my page would probably have only taken about 30 seconds to load since it was just one not-so-big photo, very little text, and simple HTML code). Well, nobody complained in the replies I had seen before I had to go to work. And he COULD have renamed it as an April Fools joke rather than totally removed it, since at least the Photoshop image is interesting even outside of the April Fools day context.
Strange too that it was verboten to even leave up a message in their forum asking why messages had been deleted. I guess that Forum Questions About Deleted Messages Day only runs from 12:01 AM thru noon on every February 30th.
Interesting that I did a search for some 4-letter words on that forum and found several there. So they can curse there, but the ownership there could not stand a nice clean simple fast loading April Fools joke.
- George Gassaway