Deepest Apologies from Staff

oceanizer

Yes, it was a big mess. Was it a joke? Yes and no. As you may notice, it's not April 1 yet. We were planning on gradually working towards something up until April 1, but Griffin went a little too far too fast – too much that some of staff did panic. However, he did keep his promise, so nothing on the board was really lost. They were just hidden. Nobody was permanantly banned, and hopefully everything has returned to normal.

Some people did take advantage of the situation and had a bit of fun. Others just thought it was lame, and a few were really horrified at the thought that AP was really hacked. For those who were really disturbed by this madness, we extend our sincere apologies. For those who offered up your help to hack the site, thank you very much. A little glad that none of you were successful though.

Please know that AP would never give power to a person who would seriously usurp out authority and destroy the board. And also, this will never happen again.

APForum Staff, very embarrassed

Quexinos

@oceanizer:

Please know that AP would never give power to a person who would seriously usurp out authority and destroy the board. And also, this will never happen again.

darn…

oh i mean, it's okay =D

BTW
are all the posts we made in that time lost or?

AWB

BTW, Why is Carly still banned?

igalsfy

so that was really the most stupid joke ever in the end?

Kishido

Thank you god that you stop that Shithead

King Calamari

It's nice to see the forums are back in order even though I didn't post a single thing during the madness.

Zephos

My old layout!

PLEASE SAY YOU SAVED LORENZO'S RAPS.

Saloma

Huzzah, I am back from my ban!

But yeah, it was pretty obvious this was a joke. It would've been all too perfect for someone to destroy the forums near April Fools.

I was also a tool in the joke >_> but whatever, no harm.

Kishido

But I still think they shoul ban Griffin for this one

quotLCquot_Lapen

This was some crazy S*#t.

So when you say you were working up to something gradually, was this whole fiasco supposed to be it, or is there something else? Cause.. frankly… I can't stomach anymore of this Foolishly Foolish Day of Fools that Fool about in their Foolish Foolery.

...(yes, I play a lot of Phoenix Wright)

Mr. Prince

Well it was fun just reading all those funny pics that were flying around.

http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~jskong/orly.gif

^This one was the best. Cudos to the one who posted it.

Pants-eater

Damnit, just as I was about to gain access to powah.

WRYYYYY!

Kma

Im still a bit confused about the whole fiasco but Im glad that everythings back.

Really though lets take a moment reflect back and look at how this moment of crisis really brought us all closer together and work together.

reflects back for a moment

wait err… nvm

joekido the Second

Apology accepted. As long as I have my old username back and the board reverted to the old days, I shall now relax.

Zo-Na

lol, it thought it mighta been a joke, im glad everythings back to normal (though i joined during this so i dont know what normal was like lol)

GearSecond

I though tit was a joke until Ocean posted that it wasn't a joke.

that jerk went way too far.

PS: If you make me an admit next year I'll do the best April Fool's Day prank ever!!!

Lieju

So were the earlier problems with the forums (pages not loading properly and all that) part of this joke too?

I hope not.

GearSecond

I trusted you ocean. I trusted you. I thought it was all a joke.

So griffin's still around? If he is, and he's reading this:

I really liked your layout. I wasn't kissing up.

Monkey.D.Johnny

Finally that fag is gone, and peace is once again, restored…

AWB

@oceanizer:

And also, this will never happen again.

Sorry, but after this stunt, I have my doubts about that. This could be the set up for another prank.

You lost my trust with this crap, so I'm taking this with a grain of salt until April 1 passes.

Finally that fag is gone, and peace is once again, restored…

He's still an admin.

Saloma

This topic also proves to me:

The internets is serious buisness.

Luffy D. Ace

Lol, I was enjoying the whole thing , though, I didn`t post. :D
I like the new layout , btw.

e1n

terrible joke, you mods and admins need to seriously get your sense of humor checked.

joekido the Second

If this was a joke, I'm not laughing. I was hoping that Griffin was really doing shit but he went too far? Why is he's not banned? I'm very disappointed in the Adminstrator.

GearSecond

I'll trust Ocean until next year, you know once AP is over.

Please let me do the prank next year :P

Zephos

Mr. Prince

:wassat:
Damn cliffhangers.

Zephos

dlo62282

might of loss a few members because of this.

Mr. Prince

Ah, much better. :)

Thanks for the show Zeph.

dlo62282

oh yeah, unlock the naruto thread. please. lol

Zephos

Uh….alot of people didn't get that did they.
FROM THE TOP.

Zephos

Selph

It was awesome while it lasted, lol it was fun owning lorenzo with that rhyming of his

lpzie

@dlo62282:

might of loss a few members because of this.

Screw them.

This was cool. I enjoyed it. Thanks admins for the awesomeness.

captain usopp

I forgive griff, but only because he destroyed lorenzo XD

ok, now seriosly, ya, it was a lame joke, but you gotta admit, a lot of us had fun running amuck for a day in the chaos, and we got to see zelph in action.

Griffin did get carried away, but it wasn't all his fault. He was "technically doing what he was told" he just got carried away. I'm sure we've all got carried away before. I mean, he had super modly powers. Who wouldn't get carried away. And I didn't see griffin be very mean to anyone either. I've seen normal users, on a normal day, ruder than him. So, don't get upset at him being mean.

I'd just like to say, I didn't know what to think. Ya, it was just too convenient, yet, as ocean said, even some of the staff were starting to sweat. That was genuine, so it made me dout it was a joke at the same time. Though, I do say, if griffen made, even the staff sweat, he did something right XD he got them good too. :)

Aldrich

The Zephos strip is the only thing that should be saved from that trainwreck. The rest was painfully unfunny after 15 minutes of that shit and was just mindless postwhoring that painted AP and its staff in a pretty pathetic light.

APRIL FOOLS IS FUN AND WE LOL HAR HAR HAR

myogatheflea

Noooooooo!!!! Griffin's Place will live in infamy.

Dragon Warrior Steve

Will we get the blue and white back though?

Pants-eater

You guys do realise that ocean now has to commit seppuku right?

I'll get the camera.

myogatheflea

@Quexinos:

darn…

oh i mean, it's okay =D

BTW
are all the posts we made in that time lost or?

Nah, Griffin's Place is hidden now. I have Subscriptions to some threads in there. :wub:

GearSecond

@Pants-eater:

You guys do realise that ocean now has to commit seppuku right?

I'll get the camera.

I'll forgive Ocean as soon as Griffin apoligizes for banning me, pass the rootbeer, private zulen, and paulie.

whispers sometihng about how joekido and lorenzo should have been gone for good

Actually, I'll happily forgive all the mods and admins in on this, if I can run the joke next year :P

And yeah, I won't trust you guys for awhile unless you make it up to us. You see, for the joke to work right, you have to be able to keep things under control. If you want even some advice on how this could have gone 100% smoother, just ask me, and I'll tell you a few obvious things that went wrong, causing Griffin to pull a Mikami(from Death Note) and…well if you read Death Note you'll understand. He did the exact same thing, his mindset rapidly became much different from yours and he acted without thinking properly.

Zephos

@myogatheflea:

Nah, Griffin's Place is hidden now. I have Subscriptions to some threads in there. :wub:

We can always go there in our dreams.

captain usopp

ya, someone got the links to griffen's section. I wanna see how the story ends!

such a curios girl :3

Zephos

Huh?

Dread Pirate Bananna

Hmm. Well, it was funtimes. I had some laughs in there. Good job, all.

WanMQ

Ah, good to see everything's back in working order. That was all very troublesome.

Kuroneko

@Zephos:

[qimg]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v340/Demescus/Henn1.jpg[/qimg]

Lol, where did this guy come from?

Zephos

Thats forum member Janken. I saw alot of him in the dark times so I decided to KILL HIM.
He has Nobunaga (of HXH) in his avatar.

lorenzo

hahaha that one was hilarious. I knew it was a joke. But something scared me, I think it was the fact that there were people who told me I was the hacker.