Announcement Thanks Everyone! Third Annual BYC April Fools Day Was LOTS of Fun!

[vfem]

Thank you for making my day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL

 

[Ec_Prokta]

That was crazy go nuts!

 

[chiknwhisperer]

I didn't figure it out till late last night and even then I still wasn't sure if it was a joke lol

 

[ranchhand]

So far, I see 2 nays and 120 yeas. (yays!)

I can see how hard it would be for a new member to realize what was happening. The fact that it coincided with the alleged release and activation of the "conficker" worm may have caused some alarm as well. It did occur to me, then I remembered that this forum leans toward a humorous side on a regular basis!

Sorry it angered some folks, but be aware, it's going to happen next year, too. And we're all glad to see ya!

, it's a pretty fun-lovin' place! And we take chicken raising pretty seriously, too.

 

[LynneP]

Lots of fun, I was nearly cross-eyed trying to post egg not rooster!

 

[Nifty-Chicken]

Wow, thanks for all the nice comments and the feedback! We really are lucky to have such a wonderful community... and you are all a part of it.

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Pretty amazing to think we've more than tripled our membership in one year! You make a good point that all 26,000+ members that are here now should know, and be ready for next year.

As a reminder for all y'all: If / when you figure this out next year PLEASE DO NOT POST ANYTHING PUBLICLY OR VIA PM (unless it is to staff). We desperately want everyone to have fun playing and figuring it out on their own. We didn't have any, but for members that couldn't keep their traps shut we were willing to put a temp 24 ban on their accounts.

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This was a risk we decided we were willing to take. While our priority is to provide the best and most readily available information for people to help raise chickens, taking one day out of the year to help bring our huge family closer together was a pro that far outweighs any potential cons.

For the record, we had an amazing day of new member signups yesterday: 102 new peeps! We must be doing something right.

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You know what, we've actually been planning this for 364 days! Honestly Judy I do start to worry about topping years past and it sure is getting harder and harder to do so. Maybe a few of you could submit some ideas via PM to the staff for next year!?

 

[raroo]

Good job and very clever, I wouldn't have thought to pull and BYC Member joke on a whole forum!

Lots of fun and it had me glued to the computer all day!

 

[luvs2garden2000]

I know I was a blabber mouth..........thanks for not banning me yesterday. I came on early in the morning and seen all the posts from the OKIES about roosters and another about Happy BYC members day and I was like whatttttttttttttttttt. the OKIES have really went off the deep end. Now mind you we are planning a get together for BYC Okie member the 25 th of April (and what was typed yesterday was 25th of BYC). All our BYC OKIES were bringing roosters to the swap TO HATCH!!!!!!!!!!

It sure was fun. This was my 1st April fools and loved it. I laughed so hard I cried. I promise not to be a blabber mouth next year.

 

[Wynette]

Ohhhhh.....I'm so gullible.

 

[ruthie]

Being a brand new member at first I thought I was just stupid. Than I started to figure it out. What fun! I am so glad that I joined.