I thought it was weird, but answered honestly just in case. It’s April 2nd here, so I didn’t even think.
Dear God, are some of these responses for real? He shouldn’t be a moderator? Really,? Because of a one time lapse (if that) in judgment? And being online, because that’s the criteria he used, is considered “targeted”? Argh. I want a planet reboot.
I’m also not sure who is pranking who at the moment, but if I learned one thing on this board it’s the fact that people can get offended by virtually anything.
As I said above, my guess would be the opposite. They were likely giving heartfelt comfort to someone living with a painful lie. My opinion is that it shouldn’t have been taken as a particularly terrible lie.
glad I saw this before wasting any time on a reply.
I also thought it weird to the point I didn’t respond. I’ve always assumed lots of people keep their sex/gender concealed on message boards, for a variety of good reasons, and I just don’t care. So I don’t see any humor in it, just weirdness.
The irony of all this for me is, lately, I’m online at the SDMB for maybe 5-15 minutes a week, mostly to see what the latest movie quote is and if I can come up with something good to follow it with.
And today it got me involved in something like this. 
That’s what I think too, but why get butthurt over a little lie as an April Fools Day prank that lasts for an hour when they can be forgiving for someone fooling the whole board for years OTOH? Doesn’t compute for me.
This was my first pm since 2008. 
I never saw the PM, but this is the first time I’ve looked at the message board in a couple of days. Did the PM get pulled from the inboxes of those who hadn’t read it yet, assuming that’s even possible?
Am I the only one whose feelings are hurt because they DIDN’T get a PM?
/Kidding Idle, I liked the prank. But I’m silly like that.
Wait… wait… wait… are you serious? You want to reboot the whole planet?! Listen, my friend, reboots are NOT good. The last time we rebooted our server, the local network disappeared, we rebooted again to fix the network, the files took a hike. we rebooted a third time, the phones started ringing nonstop. The other day one of my coworkers rebooted his phone, and it texted a picture of his lunch to his entire contact list. And you want to reboot the whole planet?! How do you know it’ll restart okay? What happens if we lose daylight hours? Or weekend time? Or heaven forbid, what if ALL THE CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKEIS GO MISSING?!!!:eek: Not a good idea… do NOT touch that planet reboot button, whatever you do!
Well, I wrote a witty rejoinder earlier today at work. But it seems I was too clever by far and left my office without hitting Submit! Now you will all be forever deprived of those pearls of my wisdom. Or saved from being witness to me embarrassing myself. Either way, it’s all good. Thanks Idle for trying to lighten up the day.
I was one who hit reply before reading the boards. :smack:
For the edification of others, my reply was
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No problemo. In the first case I always think of people on the boards as gender neutral. In the second place, I never totally trust ANY mod on April 1. Must be something in the jackboots. 
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I just checked the portrait gallery. If she is female she is ----- how can I say this? ----- damn butch looking? 
You know, this place being this place, I was expecting something today. Cujos (I always wish pranksters rabid dogs ) to Thoughts for one of the better ones we’ve had.
This whole thread reminds me of this Imgur picture (and the resulting comments) that I saw awhile back.
(Might be kind of NSFW)
Oh.
Oh, Idle.
Must fight… temptation…to make…lawyer joke…
You, too, lie, D18.
Seriously, how does one report messages? There is nothing to click on as there is for posts.
I am most bewildered by the people in the thread chuckling and saying they laughed and what a good joke this was. So someone private messages a bunch of people saying, hey, I’m actually a girl, and you’re a good friend of mine and I need to talk about this to someone.
But it’s not true!
…Ha?
I don’t get it. Unless the humor is in, “ha ha, people were so stupid that they replied to me sincerely, losers.”
This fuckin’ day. I swear. PS, if this makes me a humorless bitch I’ll happily accept that.