Happy April Fools

@Sweet Blast  
Wrong thread - go here

Is it too late to give feedback here?

@Zaknel  
No, it’s a long way until next year’s event so there’s still lots of time to talk about how to make it even better :)

I got a joke ban. It lasted for five minutes. But, that was just a bit too long. Is a ban of 2 minutes possible?

@Zaknel  
Just speaking for myself, when helping to coordinate an event where there might be hundreds of people involved, giving yourself 5 minutes before you have to respond to someone again is still pretty fast turnaround.
 
But I’m not sure if the system supports that granularity … do you mind if I ban you for 1 minute to see if it works?

@Derpy Whooves  
Go right ahead.

@Zaknel  
Yup, it works. But 5 minutes still seems really short, given all the stuff that was going on.

@Derpy Whooves  
Well, I guess it was just me being so active. I was posting all over the forums at a rate of 2-8 posts a minutes, so to me that seemed like a bit long. But, as always, it’s just my opinion.

@Zaknel  
I’m not saying shorter bans aren’t possible, but for that ban on that day 5 minutes seemed better than 30 minutes, or 1 minute, or a day, or any of the other options. Some people were banned for much, much longer, some for shorter - it just depended on whether we wanted to give other people a chance to get attention, or to grab some space ourselves to catch up.
 
Imagine being on the other side of the 2-8 posts a minute from you, and then add a couple hundred people also posting, all of whom we want to give some attention to if we can. Also we were keeping track of who was getting badges for what by hand, so 5 minutes is a really short time to take a break during an event that lasts so long and has so much going on all at once. I might not be remembering properly, but your ban may have been combined with documenting what badge you should get, so … typing’s involved.
 
Sometimes it’s nice to get get a couple minutes to take care of things behind the scenes, and then pay attention to something else, when there’s so much going on.

@Derpy Whooves  
Ah. Now I see. I thought that it was just a joke with no deeper meaning behind it. Now I get the idea.

@Zaknel  
It was a joke. Some jokes require additional paperwork.