Comments on: John Chow’s April Fools’ Day Prank Made Me Lose My Work!

By: Sunday Chatter - 4/6 - Money Making Scoop

Sunday Chatter - 4/6 - Money Making Scoop — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 13:02:03 +0000

[...] pulled an April Fools’ joke on April 2nd this year making you believe I had lost my work as a result of John Chow’s Rick Roll. [...]

By: Chris Jacobson

Chris Jacobson — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 18:12:47 +0000

So, who all fell for this post?

By: Shawn Knight

Shawn Knight — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 06:24:55 +0000

I agree with Vlad. How could you lose work if WP auto-saves it ever so often? Unless you typed really fast then jumped over to the Rick Roll very quickly…

Either way, it shouldn’t have crashed your browser, unless you manually ended task on it.

By: If you Weren’t Foolin’ You must’ve been a Fool! | Theres a Blog in my Soup: A Blog by Patrick Curl

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 20:50:31 +0000

[...] so did JohnChow. This apparently pissed off a lot of his subscribers / patrons. Chris Jacobson from Money Making Scoop states that he lost some work he was working on because of the javascript popups. John Chow even [...]

By: Hustle

Hustle — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:22:21 +0000

I enjoy a good laugh as much as anyone else, but I really hate that Rick Roll nonsense – too childish IMO.

By: Vlad

Vlad — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:48:48 +0000

This post is even more pathetic than John’s RR.

WP has been auto-saving its editor contents for a few versions now, I am pretty sure 2.5 still offers this feature. It is quite unlikely that you “lost” a lengthy post over his RR.

By: James 'Make Money Online' Mann

James 'Make Money Online' Mann — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:11:11 +0000

I personally have never seen the humor in practical jokes. People are made to feel likes idiots so other can have a laugh.

I expected as much yesterday and went through my Bloglines Feed Reader pretty fast, ignoring anything that wasn’t the norm.

Unsubscribed from a couple as well.