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/r/torontobluejays have added a Rogers employee to the mod team supposedly after the statue fiasco, all posts about this new mod are deleted promptly (self.baseball)

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Early April fools joke? I don't know but bj brothers hopefully we can discuss in here.

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[–]Glorious Smiter of Spam_depression 68ポイント69ポイント  (9子コメント)

Aaaaand this is why we've shot down every single April Fool's Joke idea that revolves around fake drama. The problem is that the faux-drama will spread outside of just the sub, people will start spreading misinformation, and when it comes out that it was all a joke there will still be people spreading the wrong information because they never learned it wasn't true. Over time, that'll come back to bite the mods or the subreddit as a whole.

[–]California AngelsCydoniaKnight 22ポイント23ポイント  (0子コメント)

And how are we supposed to believe that you're not trying to lull us into a false sense of security? Not falling for it.

/s

[–]Baltimore Showaltersavery_crudeman 11ポイント12ポイント  (2子コメント)

heh remember when I had Automod remove everything? Good times.

[–]Toronto Blue JaysLumikumi1 6ポイント7ポイント  (0子コメント)

And people wonder why bots can't be trusted. There is always someone evil behind them!

[–]Glorious Smiter of Spam_depression 5ポイント6ポイント  (0子コメント)

Remember how that was my idea? Yeah, great memories.

[–]New York YankeesRyuzaki51 3ポイント4ポイント  (3子コメント)

So Mike Trout takeover day this year then?

[–]Glorious Smiter of Spam_depression 7ポイント8ポイント  (2子コメント)

Hi have you seen our perpetual April Fool's Day joke, /r/baseballcirclejerk?

[–]New York YankeesRyuzaki51 6ポイント7ポイント  (0子コメント)

I think I saw it once :)

[–]Milwaukee Brewerspepperouchau 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

The only joke about it is that non-Jays posts are sometimes allowed by the fucking inept mods

[–]Toronto Blue JaysGrandvolume 41ポイント42ポイント  (12子コメント)

If this is a joke it was executed very poorly... why create the mod over a week in advance? Why not just create the mod on April 1st and fill the front page of the sub with a bunch of rogers promotional garbage for a few hours. I mean everyone will know it's a joke but that's kind of the point of an April fools joke.

[–]Colorado Rockiestrutrojan8 4ポイント5ポイント  (11子コメント)

Because then everyone knows its an April Fools joke instantly. You can't post something like 'Derek Jeter popped for PEDs' on April 1st because it would get zero hype at all

[–]Glorious Smiter of Spam_depression 9ポイント10ポイント  (8子コメント)

The best April Fool's Day gags fall into two categories:

  1. Incredibly obvious nonsense done in a very believable way (like when Starbucks introduced their Plenta and Micra sizes, and many of Google's stunts, like the Google Mail... mailbox). These are usually press releases or very simple concept videos/demos of a fake product, which people laugh at, share, and then move on from.
  2. Pranks intended to truly fool someone and elicit a heightened emotion, either positive or negative. These pranks are best when that emotion is a net positive, like wonder or joy, because (unless they go too far) the outcome is generally an immediate gray area of shock and potential frustration, then aftershocks of laughing at the reaction to the prank among all parties.

The problem with this potential prank, and last year's /r/baseball prank (which I'll admit was my extremely shortsighted idea), is that the emotion it heightened is negative - these kind of pranks cause issues immediately, and then after the joke is exposed the aftermath is usually still frustration and general upset-ness for causing that anger/frustration over nothing.

[–]Washington NationalsTeddyWins 3ポイント4ポイント  (1子コメント)

What was the April Fools in /r/baseball last year?

[–]Texas RangersNice_Firm_Handsnake 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

I think it was a joke about the new pace of play rules, which consisted of some sort of script that only showed the first X number of characters in your title, post or comment in order to get through it faster.

[–]Chicago Cubsleerr 2ポイント3ポイント  (5子コメント)

What was last years r/baseball prank? I wasn't around back then.

[–]Glorious Smiter of Spam_depression 7ポイント8ポイント  (4子コメント)

Basically, to go along with the new rules to speed up the game, we decided to "speed up the subreddit" by having AutoMod remove comments that were more than like 160 characters, but the "rule change" was too drastic and too frustrating, and pissed off a lot of people.

I think we trashed it before noon, because it failed so miserably.

Here's the announcement post, after we decided to nuke the plans /u/Fustrate basically spent an hour undoing all of AutoMod's comment removals.

[–]New York YankeesSixBiscuit 2ポイント3ポイント  (2子コメント)

Yeah if you guys could like not make the subreddit completely unusable on April 1st that would be swell...

[–]Glorious Smiter of Spam_depression 0ポイント1ポイント  (1子コメント)

We're still going through an existential crisis deciding if we should even do anything this year. But you'll know for sure on Friday!

[–]New York YankeesSixBiscuit 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

If it were in the middle of the offseason I'd be all about turning the place into a WCW subreddit but considering that Opening Day is so close every April 1st and that's a huge time for baseball. I appreciate everything you guys do but it seems a shame to waste a bunch of time on something that will just end up being a distraction to the main event.

I mean, isn't the Jose Canseco sidebar picture enough?

[–]Toronto Blue JaysImArcherVaderAMA 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Lol this story in itself is really funny.

I'm still holding out hope that we've got some pranksters for mods over here. If so, I wouldn't be mad :) Although to be fair, my life has been really busy and I haven't been add participatory as I have been in the past. I've also been in /r/nba a lot more lately lol. Thus, my emotions might not be as heightened....

[–]Toronto Blue JaysGrandvolume 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

I was just giving an example of something that would be a harmless joke. Unfortunately the route that the mods decided to go down is going to damage the sub. If you go to the blue jays subreddit right now the top thread is titled "time to find a new sub"

[–]New York Yankeesajwhite98 26ポイント27ポイント  (8子コメント)

Haha oh wow no, I don't work for Rogers at all. I didn't even realize how much I was commenting on them honestly. My name's Roger and I just like the Blue Jays a lot. My comments do not represent the viewpoints of Rogers Communications in any way.

That is incorrect. The username is RogerScares

Yeah pretty sure it's an April Fools Joke.

[–]New York YankeesInfieldOfDreams 25ポイント26ポイント  (4子コメント)

Not a very good one..

[–]New York Yankeesajwhite98 14ポイント15ポイント  (2子コメント)

Coulda been. If they had played their cards better. At this point, enough people will know about it come 4/1 that no one will actually fall for it. But damn, if they had planned it a little better....

[–]Tampa Bay RaysSunshineNetwork 1ポイント2ポイント  (1子コメント)

Really all they had to do was roll this out on 4/1. Everyone laughs, no one gets mad, we all move on.

[–]Toronto Blue Jayspolynomialpusher 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

That's what I wish they would have done. Instead they're pissed people off.

"It's just a prank bro." isn't going to get back any goodwill either.

[–]Toronto Blue JaysLumikumi1 11ポイント12ポイント  (1子コメント)

For anyone who missed it:

I'm going to get in shit for posting, this isn't a joke unfortunately. Shit hit the fan due to a recent news post about a statue. We got slayed. I didn't vote for the fucking babysitter. I'll post my take on the whole events in the next few days, taking a break from the drama.

/u/CanaDan in the locked thread

[–]Tampa Bay RaysSunshineNetwork 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

yes and if it's on the internet it MUST be true

[–]Toronto Blue JaysMTLBroncos 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

most jokes are funny though

[–]tranam 15ポイント16ポイント  (5子コメント)

Rogers - Killed HockeyNightinCanada.
Now, on to reddit

[–]Toronto Blue JaysLumikumi1 27ポイント28ポイント  (4子コメント)

It's OK the Canadian teams are in protest this year against Rogers and withdrew from the playoffs

[–]Chicago CubsGermanhammer05 7ポイント8ポイント  (1子コメント)

That means the oilers have been protesting for years.

[–]Toronto Blue JaysLumikumi1 6ポイント7ポイント  (0子コメント)

Oilers are just seeing how many number one draft picks can play on a team at once.

[–]E1GDC 2ポイント3ポイント  (1子コメント)

I wonder how much money Rogers is missing out on because of lower viewership from no Canadian teams

[–]Tampa Bay RaysSunshineNetwork 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

hopefully all of it

[–]Toronto Blue Jaystjrl 15ポイント16ポイント  (11子コメント)

It seems pretty likely to me that it's an April fools joke. Two of the mods have more or less said that clarification will happen in a few days. I'm not sure why they wouldn't say now as opposed to sometime around April 1st, unless it is a joke.

[–]Toronto Blue JaysLumikumi1 14ポイント15ポイント  (10子コメント)

Problem with a joke like this is. It's too soon, and user has been posting already.

[–]Toronto Blue Jaystjrl 13ポイント14ポイント  (8子コメント)

/u/RogersCares has only been around for a week. It's close enough to April fools that the account would be set up as a joke. It doesn't mean it is for sure, but I find it bizarre that the mods can't say anything now but can in a few days.

[–]Toronto Blue JaysLumikumi1 7ポイント8ポイント  (0子コメント)

Oh I know he has. And yeah getting drama for a joke is gonna end bad for the mods.

[–]San Francisco Giantsdropperofpipebombs 13ポイント14ポイント  (9子コメント)

Popcorn gifs! Get yer popcorn gifs here!

We got Michael Jackson!

We got George Constanza!

We got Jon Stewart!

We got em all!

[–]Houston Colt .45sPmoney51 7ポイント8ポイント  (1子コメント)

You forgot Gus eating popcorn.

[–]Toronto Blue Jaysrustyarrowhead 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

who is Gus? that is Charlie Young, and don't you tell me he's anyone different.

[–]Toronto Blue JaysLumikumi1 4ポイント5ポイント  (1子コメント)

You need a David Price one

[–]Toronto Blue JaysTheWaxMuseum 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Can't you see it was all a marketing attempt to sell more popcorn!

[–]Baltimore Oriolesnicholieeee 3ポイント4ポイント  (1子コメント)

For those of you would like a baseball themed gif

[–]Toronto Blue Jayspolynomialpusher 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

We need the Bulls mascot one.

[–]Toronto Blue Jaysscrewball22 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

As a Giants fan, how do you not have the Lincecum one?

[–]Milwaukee Brewerspepperouchau 1ポイント2ポイント  (1子コメント)

http://gfycat.com/GenerousNextBlackbuck

[–]Toronto Blue Jaysi_am_Toru 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

*circus music

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    [–]Toronto Blue Jayswill_chug_syrup 6ポイント7ポイント  (8子コメント)

    Agreed. I think it's funny as it's coming to a head now but if this is dragged out over a couple days it gets less so. Today a guy I worked with asked me if the Chicago Cubs won the World Series last year....I need intelligent baseball conversation and a sub on a witch hunt is not that.

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      [–]Toronto Blue JaysThQp 6ポイント7ポイント  (5子コメント)

      So I think what you're saying is that you would definitely want me to be a mod. I hear ya!

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        [–]Toronto Blue JaysThQp 4ポイント5ポイント  (3子コメント)

        Damn... here I was, trying to spark a jovial disagreement, and you go and flatter me. Time to go eat some hot dog sandwiches

        [–]Toronto Blue Jaysdhillpickl3 4ポイント5ポイント  (2子コメント)

        I agree with them! Your content is awesome and I enjoy reading it. I'm sure there are a lot of people at r/torontobluejays who agree!

        [–]Toronto Blue Jayslakehousebytheriver1 1ポイント2ポイント  (1子コメント)

        Yea, THQP always has a well reasoned and thought out post. Great contributor and I'd say the Josh Donaldson of the Jays sub (MVP).

        I can easily recall a bunch of posts where those not paying attention to the offseason came asking about it. Always amazed that THQP lays out the points with whys and reasoning, good foundation and stuff like that.

        [–]Toronto Blue Jaysdhillpickl3 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

        MV-ThQp

        [–]Tampa Bay RaysSunshineNetwork 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

        Today a guy I worked with asked me if the Chicago Cubs won the World Series last year

        well... did they? you never answered me, asshole.

        [–]Toronto Blue Jaysilikefarting[S] 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

        I'm 90% sure this is the case.

        [–]Los Angeles Dodgersleftylogan 17ポイント18ポイント  (3子コメント)

        popcorn.gif

        [–]Toronto Blue JaysLumikumi1 16ポイント17ポイント  (2子コメント)

        http://i.imgur.com/S6ssOxd.jpg

        [–]Toronto Blue JaysAhlinn 0ポイント1ポイント  (1子コメント)

        is barry davis tryna get a mouth full?

        [–]Toronto Blue JaysLumikumi1 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

        If I remember correctly he was eating it off JD

        [–]Toronto Blue JaysTheWaxMuseum 3ポイント4ポイント  (2子コメント)

        Who's going to be the first to open /r/torontotruejays

        [–]Toronto Blue Jaysunfknreal 4ポイント5ポイント  (0子コメント)

        There's already a /r/bluejays

        [–]Milwaukee Brewerspepperouchau 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

        /r/baseballcirclejerk welcomes all of your quality Jays content

        [–]Toronto Blue Jaysdeafpoet 6ポイント7ポイント  (0子コメント)

        Saw this earlier. Decided not to ask questions about it lest my phone get unceremoniously cut off.

        [–]San Francisco Giantsdropperofpipebombs 3ポイント4ポイント  (1子コメント)

        Boy, I'm glad the most we've ever done as a joke was have /u/DodgerBot and /u/sfgbot switch subs for a day...

        [–]Miami MarlinsSupersace56 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

        As an outsider looking in on the Dodgers and Giants rivalry, this sounds absolutely hilarious to me. Do you have any posts or reactions from that day I may look at?

        [–]New York Yankeesslorebath 6ポイント7ポイント  (2子コメント)

        I'm an adult. I own property.

        But...bj brothers...hehe

        [–]Toronto Blue JaysLumikumi1 4ポイント5ポイント  (0子コメント)

        The correct term is esmko brothers

        [–]Toronto Blue JaysNate_intheory 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

        Vincent Adultman, is that you?

        [–]Toronto Blue JaysPeteJeffrey 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

        If you have to execute your April Fools joke in March, it isn't a very clever one.

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        [–]Chicago CubsKaner_95 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

        Blue Jays fans, I might know a little something about creating a new sub because mods cannot mod right. I say try to work it out first, but when push comes to shove, stand up and make something better.

        [–]Toronto Blue Jaysrustyarrowhead 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

        I am so confused on so many levels...