April fools day is here! Feel free to post any oddities on the SO family here rather than creating 200000 posts about avatars changing to Ponies
Unicorns
with rainbows in the background.
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1meta.stackexchange.com/questions/37328/…– RSolbergMar 31, 2010 at 22:47
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2I believe they are actually called unicorns– Ufuk HacıoğullarıMar 31, 2010 at 22:47
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1@Narsil, yes but a Unicorn is a derivative of a Pony. So therefore you can refer to the unicorns as ponies in the same way you can refer to cats as animals.– EarlzMar 31, 2010 at 23:01
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1This may just be the day I reach the rep-cap on meta. lol– EarlzMar 31, 2010 at 23:11
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2Ah, they finally put up the "it's april fool's day" banner after like 10 unicorn questions. lol. a bit late there..– EarlzMar 31, 2010 at 23:19
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1But still no banner on SO, where most of the questions have started. @ear– randomMar 31, 2010 at 23:47
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3answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100330180346AAZEE9t– balpha StaffModApr 1, 2010 at 0:05
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The irony is that this will probably generate more questions on Meta than the rep recalc.
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20Unless someone hasn't logged in for awhile... "hey I logged on to SO only to find that my rep was cut in half AND my gravatar is a pony... I think my account got switched somehow but, oddly, those questions in my profile look like mine! The pony, on the other hand, definitely isn't mine..." Mar 31, 2010 at 23:06
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2There was a rep recalc ?? Ahh, so not a bug then.... Happy Easter all! Apr 1, 2010 at 15:53
I hope Google's crawler doesn't associate my unicorn/rainbow avatar with my name in Google Images. :-)
They are just crazy mixed up animals. --Gag Halfrunt
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Call me a grumpy old man, but please, MAKE IT STOP!
It wasn't funny 4 years ago when Slashdot did a very similar thing, and it's not funny now.
Oh, and .get off my lawn! :)
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I just thought someone had coded an ingenious method of spamming the site and perhaps farming for answers for other sites (like Quora) when I spotted five questions in a row from users with vaguely suspicious names, one rep and various unicorn icons.
Took a few seconds for the April Fools penny to drop.
I hadn't realised how most internet user names looks suspicious when ones head is at a certain angle.
Also - I want to keep my unicorn!
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I don't really care about the ponies, but I'm having problems posting comments and answers to Stack Overflow with Firefox 3.6.2. It briefly shows an image of a lolcat and something about a serious error before blanking out and failing to load something; I try refreshing but it doesn't load, and my text gets lost. Sometimes it goes through but most of the time it doesn't; it works perfectly fine every time in Internet Explorer 8. I am using NoScript and Adblock Plus, but I've never had this problem until today.
It's been here for 9 hours and 46 minutes already... slow much?
Anyway. I see ponies! Everywhere! (actually apparently they're unicorns)