Every once in awhile, a small tweak on how you do something gives you unexpected results. One of the April Fool’s joke we pulled on the Ubuntu Forums has caused some interesting things to happen. Matthew explains it better in this post.
From Matthew: FYI to all readers. This forum was originally called the Backyard, as you can see from the rules. The name was changed as a April Fool’s Day joke on April 1, 2008. On that day, the pink text was also added. This amused a lot of people, so we left it like that for a few days, and immediately noticed a change in the tone of posts and conversations in this forum. Perhaps the new, more whimsical name and color have had an affect on members in their posting styles? In any case, for the time being, we have decided to leave it like this. The Backyard is now called “OMG pInK pOnIeS” in honor of the famous Slashdot.org April Fool’s Day prank of 2006 (Google it), and the default text color is now pink, because it has had such a positive impact on posting styles and caused a drastic decrease in the number of reported posts from this forum.
