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OMG I MISSED IT!!!!!!!!
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i cried

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Posts: 210 · Joined: Jun 16, 2007 Location: Ohio, USA Posts: 210

Haha, if you could have seen my expression when I saw that at first. Thank god.

Posts: 3212 · Posted: April 1, 2008 7:27 pm Post subject:

Muahaha I knew it I don't take anything seriously on April 1st.
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Posts: 209 · Posted: April 1, 2008 8:18 pm Post subject:

lol best aprils fools day joke ever.......apat from the ones on muggle net! there da bomb! lol you are awesome darrrrr!
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Posts: 16584 · Posted: April 1, 2008 9:27 pm Post subject:

lol I wasn't sure what to think. I knew it was april fools...but at the same time wouldn't that be a good day to hack a site? and it seemed like a lot of work to go through for a joke...but smexy just loves us that much! Very Happy

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Posts: 9428 · Posted: April 1, 2008 10:13 pm Post subject:

haha i just NOW saw it... I noticed almost instantly that rad yek nom spelled smexy backwards...

haha, i missed all the fun though. Sad

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Posts: 16584 · Posted: April 1, 2008 10:20 pm Post subject:

I just blew through quickly in the morning and thought it said "red yak nom" lol. so the joke was lost on me. made me think of nom nom nom, like they ate the site.
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Posts: 9428 · Posted: April 1, 2008 10:23 pm Post subject:

i knew it couldn't be real before i recognized that rad yek nom was darmonkey, I saw it was "lolcat" Shocked

what kind of hacker uses lolcat?
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Posts: 16584 · Posted: April 1, 2008 10:27 pm Post subject:

all your [base] are belong to us predates lolcats I think. I was groggy and only came on for a few minutes, didn't even realize what day it was until someone suggested it was a joke, but I still think it was a reasonable thing to think it would be a good day for a hacker to do a silly hack.
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Posts: 9428 · Posted: April 1, 2008 10:30 pm Post subject:

i did not know that.... Sad

and i agree. Razz

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Posts: 16584 · Posted: April 1, 2008 10:34 pm Post subject:

but again, it would be a good day for a hacker to use lolcat. if I was a hacker I'd use it all the time actually lol. actually...lolcats originated on 4chan and isn't that where hackers hang out?
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Posts: 9428 · Posted: April 1, 2008 10:36 pm Post subject:

how do you expect me to know? that's al's dept. Wink

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Posts: 16584 · Posted: April 1, 2008 10:41 pm Post subject:

but he's gone to bed Sad

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Posts: 6571 · Posted: April 2, 2008 12:01 am Post subject:

I knew it was a oke the whole time. At first i was like "HACKED AGAIN?!" then I read the name closer at the top and I remembered it was April Fools Day. lol
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Posts: 3627 · Joined: Aug 23, 2007 Location: Oz Posts: 3627

Freaken time zones and being away, I get told about this over 24 hours after April fools day, (Apr 2nd just after midday.) And am all like.. but its not April fools day.. Oh. It is for Americans. Fine.

Rolling Eyes

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Posts: 16584 · Posted: April 2, 2008 1:17 am Post subject:

but you're in the future, you're supposed to know what happens before we do
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Posts: 3437 · Joined: Jul 11, 2005 Location: Wisconsin, USA Posts: 3437

For those of you that missed out and keep asking questions, I'll give you a summary. Everything started about 9am US Eastern time on April 1.

First, the top banner was changed to:

As mentioned many times, Rad Yek Nom is basically DarMonkey backwards (with keeping the words in order to make it slightly harder to see). This was hinted to by the banner being mirrored. Also, it is fairly common for rogue/hacker people to use messed up versions of website administrators names in their accounts.

I removed all Moderator abilities on the forums I was going to post in (The Leaky Cauldron, The Great Hall, Hogwarts Gallery, etc.). Then the user "Rad Yek Nom" because posting topics including:

Rad Yek Nom's Signature:

Rad Yek Nom's Avatar:

"All your base are belong to us" is from an old, poorly translated video game. It was a big internet phenomenon about 6 years ago, especially in the gaming community. I know very little about "lolcat" or whatever, and any reference made to AYBABTU originated from the video game.

Rad Yek Nom was given approximately 700,000 posts, resulting in this topic: Red Yek Nom's 687959 Post Count Celebration!

DarMonkey's username was changed to HACKEDbyRadYekNom. As different people confronted Rad Yek Nom, their usernames were changed...

CrAzYhArRyPoTtErNeRd62442 to HaCkEdNeRd
ravvy to OWNEDbyRadYek
Rorschach to RadYek's Bitch
bery26 to RadYekWINS

Some people also had their signatures and avatars changed to...

Signature:

Avatar:

ravvy's Signature:

All standard ranks (i.e. Muggle, First-Seventh Year, House images, etc.) were changed to the image below. Many people had two of these images right below their username in their posts.

This resulted in the Information about HACKED house topic.

The only person that had confirmation from me that this was a joke was Rorschach. Ror was the one that suggested an April Fool's Day prank on March 31, so he knew I was going to do something -- not necessarily what. When he arrived on April 1, he went along with everything and embellished some of the "hacking" going on.

By the afternoon, people kept posting that Rad Yek Nom was "DarMonkey backwards" and I had to keep deleting these posts. In order to try to keep the prank going, I enlisted the help of the DarMonkey account (at this point still HACKEDbyRadYekNom). DarMonkey came on and posted this apology. DarMonkey also attempted to make the Moderator Team believe this was real and that he was having major problems trying to ban Rad Yek Nom and take back control of the forums. Finally, at 5pm US Eastern time, DarMonkey announced that he had banned Rad Yek Nom and would have to restore the forums back to September 7, 2007 (among other things).

Overall, the reception of this prank has been fairly positive, although some are a bit upset. It may have gone too far, and I apologize to those that are unhappy with something that happened yesterday. Every change that was made was restored soon after 5pm US Eastern yesterday. No sigs, avatars, usernames, or normal posts were lost. I hope you all had a good April Fool's Day.

-Rad Yek Nom
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