Alright then. How about NOT putting up a fucking pop-up saying “sssoon” a day before? How–How about /u/spez not lying to us and saying they’re not doing an April Fool’s thing this year? And don’t pull that “Well technically it’s not–” Fuck you, if they’re starting it on April Fool’s day with the pop-up, it IS an April-bloody-Fools Day event.
One announcement. That’s all they needed to do. One. They could’ve saved us all this bullshit and time-wasting with /r/sneksnek.
And I’m really not too salty about all of this happening. I’m kind of salty at the admins for not announcing anything and putting in the “sssssoon” way too early. But I’m also salty at anyone trying to tell me we shouldn’t have expected the admins to do stuff on Easter when they clearly have access to the site. They added the “ssssoon”, we had that reply from spez in the group chat (Which could easily have been an official post instead of a side thing less people have access to and which came off as dubious to me), and we had the reply from toasties here.
People are just upset that they had all this build-up and didn’t deflate people’s hype until after the fact. Rather than just come out and say “We have an event tomorrow instead”, they waited until a good while after the fact to say anything. And what they did say is contradictory.
Spez’s comment contradicts the pop-up on the Snoo, AND toasties’ comment. Their unclear bullshit is, I’d hope, unrelated to the actual event but at the same time that just makes me wonder how well thought-out this is. As I’ve already posted twice: Are we going to find out this was just some dumb social experiment to find out how people react to being given a cryptic clue on the one fucking day a year when people are especially open to cracking codes and shit?
Like, this event was poorly-planned, no matter how you slice it. As others have said, they had an entire year to do this. And I’d even be willing to excuse the failure on the actual coding or creation of whatever the event is, if they had communicated with us in a timely manner rather than letting some unofficial person waste everyone’s time while they (as I just mentioned) continued to contradict each other.
Really, I just expected better from the people who run such a huge site. Should I not have expected that much? I mean it seems pretty clear-cut to me. If there’s misinformation out there, should I NOT collaborate with the group I’m working with to make sure we’re sending out a clear, consistent message? If something comes up, am I not supposed to let affected people know, particularly when I know confusion could be caused?
This seems like high school-level stuff. I’m not referring to the programming here, I’m referring to the communication aspect. I apologize for rambling here but this is nonsense I’ve seen with MULTIPLE communities. I’ve seen issues of communication with the developers of Team Fortress 2 AND the developer of Hearthstone (Team 5 and by extension Blizzard).
I don’t think it’s entitlement. If it is, I’m sorry, I don’t want to come off as some entitled prick who expects to be catered to every minute of the day. But there’s thousands upon thousands of people here who deserve better than contradictory and spurious information from the administrators on this site.