{"id":1969,"date":"2012-04-01T23:24:18","date_gmt":"2012-04-01T14:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2012-04-01\/1969"},"modified":"2012-04-01T23:24:18","modified_gmt":"2012-04-01T14:24:18","slug":"your-april-fools-joke-is-not-good-enough-if-i-dont-regret-having-trusted-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2012-04-01\/1969","title":{"rendered":"Your April-Fool’s Joke is Not Good Enough if I Don’t Regret Having Trusted You"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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I love April-Fool's jokes.<\/p>\n\n

I don't care so much for ones played on me by someone I don't<\/span> know, by a\nsource<\/span> I don't<\/span> trust. No, it's best when it's a friend<\/span> or trusted source,\nwhen the joke is so good<\/i> that I actually<\/span> regret having given them my\ntrust. Yes, the satisfaction you feel when you make me\nregret having trusted you..... well, jokes just don't get better than that,\nnow do they?<\/p>\n\n

One of the best ever was back in 1998, when I'd been working for Yahoo!\nfor a year.<\/span> This was near the beginning of Yahoo!'s great heyday and we\nwere putting out new properties left and right...\nYahoo! Mail,<\/span> \nYahoo! Atlanta,<\/span> \nYahoo! Auctions,<\/span> \nYahoo! This,<\/span> \nYahoo! That.<\/span>  It was common<\/span> for a pre<\/span>-launch\ncompany-wide invitation to check out the a site<\/span> and pass along feedback to\nthe developers, and I often<\/span> spent considerable energy on this, as many of\nus did. So one day<\/span> when a company<\/span>-wide call went out to check out the\nforthcoming “Yahoo! Jokes” site, I spent<\/span> several hours combing through its\nmechanics to provide feedback.<\/p>\n\n

Of course, you see where this is going: it was April 1st, and the entire\nsite was a joke,<\/span> as was the company-wide call to action. I'm sure they<\/span> got\na great<\/span> laugh at everyone who wasted hours of their paid workday, and I\nlearned<\/span> a great<\/span> lesson in return: never again to trust the person who sent\nthe request.<\/p>\n\n

Perhaps I'm just a sourpuss, but it seems that the whole point of April\nFool's jokes these days is to trick someone into believing you, which put\nanother away, is to make them regret having trusted you. Trust and respect\nshouldn't be so easily discarded.<\/p>\n\n

Of course, having fun is fun, so if it's obviously silly<\/i> (like\nthis from Seth Godin<\/a>), I'm all for<\/span> it. Just don't teach me to not trust\nyou.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I love April-Fool's jokes.<\/p>

I don't care so much for ones played on me by someone I don't know, by a source I don't trust. No, it's best when it's a friend or trusted source, when the joke is so good that I actually regret having given them my trust. Yes, the satisfaction you feel when you make me regret having trusted you..... well, jokes just don't get better than that, now do they?<\/p>

One of the best ever was back in 1998, when I'd been working for Yahoo! for a year. This was near the beginning of Yahoo!'s great [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1969"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}