UnSignpost:UnSignpost/20131021
US government shuts down; Uncyclopedia doesn't
By Spike
Uncyclopedians who neglect UnNews might not have noticed that the U.S. Government underwent a devastating partial shutdown, something reported by Djme13 with a follow-up story by yours truly. (The many Uncyclopedia users who hate to read can avail themselves of either story in Talking Book format.)
Meanwhile, ScottPat, who actually likes government, visited nasa.gov, only to be confronted with a terse shutdown notice in two of his favorite languages, though the Spanish-language message omitted directions to the day's amnesty protest in the federal district, a function of government that was curiously unaffected. He made the helpful suggestion that Uncyclopedia adopt a similar message, as our funding situation is, if anything, in worse shape than government's. (We have tried to print our own currency, and it didn't work.)
So we sporked the NASA message, as we feel we have already paid for it, for use on Uncyclopedia. The best way to make it assault users was to employ our tried-and-true method of assaulting users: the recently retired Content Warning. Wikia eagerly switched the Content Warning back on but — demonstrating again the clear communication that is always present between Admins and webhost — no one saw fit to put the right text on the page. This meant that for most of Monday the 7th, users saw the hated and hotly debated old Content Warning again. ScottPat noticed the bug, though he claims to be unable to see the correction, and you might not either, as the device is designed to deliver a single assault, and not battery.
A remarkable side-effect was a decline in overnight anonymous traffic, as our Third Shift evidently took at face value the claim that Uncyclopedia was shut for lack of funding. We have always known that they have no sense of humor and half of them think that we are Wikipedia.
Editors: Also please note that I would like the UnSignpost not to tout the fact that our own government...
- Whoops, that was not for publishing, sorry.
That time I was nearly huffed during my sojourn on VFD
Dude, that voting was rabid. Like WTF!
- So there I was
visiting VFD and making sure none of my fantastic articles were being nominated again, like they usually are, right? Like boring in-joke shit.
- and this nomination
pops up right in my face. Seriously, an in-joke being added to VFD. We have antiquated rules against that, right?
- so I pull out my indignation
and get ready to vote to save some of our most unfunny, formulaic articles from being deleted. But the votes against keeping these articles alive just kept piling up against me.
Some articles nearly got away with a major sinistral external abrasion and a severed brachialis radial. But they didn't. They were huffed.
Seriously, who would have imagined a stale in-joke wouldn't be considered funny?
October 2013 - some srs bsns
"If rules are meant to be broken, they should at least be funny," - thought the Uncyclopedia admins years ago and replaced any possible policies of the site with in-jokes, numerous allusions to their moms, self-reference and in-jokes.
"If rules are broken, it is because they are funny," - thought the Uncyclopedia admins in October 2013 and made rules.
Dear diary,
What was designed as an ambiguous source for drama, suddenly became a respectable policy (Forum:A new VFS is in order), and a page with the primary aim to confuse new users, was rewritten, not featured (which lead to its loss of honour) and laughed at (Forum:Rewrite of UN:SIG).
Dear diary,
I should have taken another pill.
ChiefjusticeDS could not endure our situation and began stripping paint. Apparently, this lead to hallucinations, as well as the shorter list of active administrators and a Roman Imperator becoming a Bureaucrat.
After Chief's last forum had received as many posts as P.Sulivan's one, Romartus took over the bright initiative and stripped the list down to three members.
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00:00 - 04:00 (UTC): the day starts well, with vandalism and spam
04:00 - 07:00: stuff gets undone
07:00 - 09:00: languid discussions on the state of Uncyclopedia
09:00 - 12:33: vivid discussions on the state of Uncyclopedia
12:33 - 13:13: lunch pause
13:13 - 14:22: people warm up for the final fight
14:22 - 14:23: the fight is cancelled, as it turns out that admins have been watching everyone, since the very beginning
14:23 - 16:00: people leave their offices, and fight everywhere else
16:00 - 18:22: vandalism, sockpuppetry and anonysm - a normal work day ends
18:22 - 18:23: people try to work on their way home
18:23 - 21:00: Aleister wakes up
21:00 - 23:59: Uncyclopedians turn into their normal selves.
VFH Nominations and Highlights
Top Nominations:
- Oz (TV series) (6.5/0)
- Worst 100 Songs To Play At A Funeral (6/0)
- John Kerry (6/0)
Feature of the week: Melbourne (11.5/0)
See also
- James Bevel's face in a cloud: another cloud-face;
- Ambiguity: you think you know what it is;
- Forum:Peer review lite: What is as dramatic as a Village Dump forum? Right, a Pee Review!
- Forum:A new concept for VFD
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