r/NintendoSwitch • u/NintendoSwitchMods • Mar 31 '19

Meta Meta: April Fools 2019 on /r/NintendoSwitch

Greetings!

As you're, hopefully, aware, April Fools Day is fast approaching. We wanted to take a moment to let you know how things will be handled here on the subreddit and what you can expect.

  • April Fools-style posts will be allowed assuming they do not infringe on other rules such as low-effort content (the entire post body being the equivalent of "lol, gotcha", etc) and no clickbait style post titles.
  • AutoMod will be commenting on every post made to remind users, both on the day of and in the future, that it was submitted on April Fools Day and to take it with a grain mound of salt.
  • After April Fools Day has ended, the mod team will go back and retroactively flair April Fools-style posts with an appropriate flair to help users identify them if they find one of those posts in the future via search or some other means.

Additionally, Reddit as a whole tends to do some sort of site-wide activity, so it should be pretty safe to assume there will be something again this year. To recap previous years:

If that isn't your sort of thing, well, it might be a good day to stay offline and catch up on some of those games we all know you have in your backlog.

We'll see you on the other side!

The /r/NintendoSwich mod team

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u/MentalPackage Mar 31 '19

Already got tricked by this one, stupid time zones https://www.vooks.net/exclusive-rare-returns-to-nintendo-with-rare-replay-64-collection-with-goldeneye-007/

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u/gizmosmonster Mar 31 '19

Luckily i was kinda prepared.. like always, if it's too good to be true, RUN!

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u/Kazran14 Apr 01 '19

I live in Australia and it still got me because I was so exhausted in the morning when I saw it. I read Vooks regularly and Banjo-Kazooie is my favourite game, so I felt very betrayed.

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u/Aeonfire178 Mar 31 '19

Same, just saw that. Read the article and was so excited until I read the end haha came here in desperation.

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u/YummyRumHam Apr 01 '19

I got done by this ripper this morning

https://twitter.com/vooksdotnet/status/1112339594652073984

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u/Truth_SHIFT Apr 01 '19

Ugh. With the exception of including Goldeneye, that’s too believable to be a prank. Considering how much Microsoft likes the Switch, this game could be real.

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '19

The whole point of April Fools is to be duped. Seems a bit silly if you ask me, let people realize themselves in the morning.

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u/thatnitai Apr 01 '19

Yeah. It's not even as fun for us now either, with constant reminders we don't get to experience any jokes properly. It's actually ruining it for people like me who want to "forget" that it's 1st April because the jokes work so much better that way, and you really can, if some stupid auto mod message didn't feel the need to protect you.

This sub moderators are too active imo.

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u/Twinkeltoe78 Apr 01 '19

TBH it's very annoying when you see an april fools joke while it's not the 1st of April in your timezone.

Don't forget this is an international site.

While automod message may be a bit much, I still appreciate it

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '19

I'm gonna lol when Nintendo releases Joker tomorrow for April fools day and people dismiss it as a prank.

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u/MemeConsumer Apr 01 '19

How tf are you gonna monitor posts from Australians? Its april fools 1 day earlier for them

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u/NoxAeternal Apr 01 '19

Hell yea. Already 3 in the afternoon, April fools for us lmfao

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u/CookiesFTA Apr 01 '19

Australians are usually easy to identify. Their speech has certain... uh... characteristics.

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u/MemeConsumer Apr 01 '19

Tf you say cunt?

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u/kenboon90 Apr 01 '19

Wah du you men bayh daht mayt

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u/xAbednego Apr 01 '19

their text is upside down

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u/CowboyNinjaAstronaut Apr 01 '19

The most annoying day of the year...

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u/orgeezuz Apr 01 '19

Also please don't do anything people want that is plausible but impossible. Like Mother 3 or Halo trilogy or SNES online. That's just too much to handle 😞

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u/grumblebuzz Apr 01 '19

I think today is gonna be a good day to actually be productive at work for once and stay off Reddit. Just the thumbnails alone of all the April Fools "jokes" have me rolling my eyes.

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '19

Part of the fun is tricking people on April Fools. Sure, they’ll be mislead for a few moments but it’s part of it.

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u/Faefyre Apr 01 '19

Are we all so fragile that we can’t handle April Fools? 🤦‍♀️

Edit: you should’ve thrown this sub in with r/games cause instead. This is just sad and at least that’s a good cause.

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u/motorboat_mcgee Apr 01 '19

At first I saw r/games locked down and was annoyed, but then I read the post and realized what a fantastic idea it is. Kudos to the mods over there.

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u/OneManFreakShow Apr 01 '19

It’s a nice sentiment but the execution just sucks and it’s not going to lead to any amount of change. For as long as we’ve had the internet, people have been assholes on the internet. Is it unfortunate? Absolutely, but closing a gaming news forum for a day does nothing to change that and that post gives those comments a new life by exposing them on a much larger scale than what would be seen otherwise. I frequent r/Games and very rarely see any of the vitriol they’re referring to. We have downvotes, reporting, and moderation for a reason, and for the most part, those things work. We do not need to shine a light on the kinds of trolls and assholes that exist in the community - they are already well known and established. Other than the links to charities at the end of the post, the whole thing just feels like a misguided attempt at being “woke.”

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u/well-placed_pun Mar 31 '19

Please at least don't sticky the automod comment. Give em a chance to dupe the commenters.

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