[rfc-i] Doing something else on April 1

touch at isi.edu (Joe Touch) Sun, 03 April 2016 18:50 UTC

From: touch at isi.edu (Joe Touch)
Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2016 11:50:26 -0700
Subject: [rfc-i] Doing something else on April 1
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Just because others so this in poor taste or badly doesn't mean we
should abandon it, IMO.

Joe

On 4/3/2016 4:33 AM, Paul Hoffman wrote:
> On 2 Apr 2016, at 22:30, Martin J. D?rst wrote:
> 
>> On 2016/04/03 05:47, Paul Hoffman wrote:
>>
>>> FWIW, there was a pretty strong backlash in the tech community against
>>> April Fools "jokes" this year, growing from previous years.
>>
>> Where, and why? Pointers appreciated.
> 
> All over Twitter on the day or two before the 1st. Examples:
> 
> https://twitter.com/gruber/status/715630299661656064
> 
> https://twitter.com/SavedYouAClick/status/715705105794904064
> 
> https://twitter.com/Foxtrot44/status/715934640813506560
> 
> --Paul Hoffman
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