Reported...?
Fri Jun 10, 2005 10:51 pm
I got a Neomail saying I'd won this week's Mystery Pic, but when I clicked on the answer pic to see if I really did get it, and it says I get reported, even though the judging's been done and I won already.
Have I really been reported or is that a joke?
Have I really been reported or is that a joke?
Fri Jun 10, 2005 10:52 pm
It's just a joke. 
Fri Jun 10, 2005 11:47 pm
Xerophyte wrote:It's just a joke.
I have to admit, I truly don't like this "Joke".
When it first happened to me I was pretty new to np and I was scared for a good month that I was going to get iced, warned etc..... I'm so very careful not to even bend the rules because I don't want to lose my account that it really surprized me!! When nothing happened I gulped and thought, "Whew! Lucked out".
Then it happened again and I happened to see a similar thread to this one here on PPT and it made me angry.
I enjoy a good joke just as much as the next person but this one is a little over the top especially with the easy "icing" that happens sometimes at Neo. I think they should put a little disclaimer like "(Hehe! just kidding...)" or something. It's happened to all my kids on separate occasions and they were all frightened as well (it happened before me and they didn't tell me - little stinkers!) Oh well.....
Fri Jun 10, 2005 11:49 pm
The last time it happened to me, which was the only time, by the way, they did have something like "just kidding" next to the "reported!".
Guess they took it off?
Guess they took it off?
Fri Jun 10, 2005 11:57 pm
That's not funny. What's the point of a joke that just scares somebody to death? 
Fri Jun 10, 2005 11:58 pm
That's TNT's attempt at being funny...
clap... clap.....
clap... clap.....
Sat Jun 11, 2005 12:43 am
I remember something like that when Illusen's place was just opening up. o_o Or something like that. >> I was scared, 'cause I think I was semi-new-ish to Neopets. xD I was like "OMGOHNOESMYPETS!"
Sat Jun 11, 2005 4:41 am
TNT should stop trying to be funny..we just end up hating the somemore
Sat Jun 11, 2005 5:05 am
It's not a joke. It's a programming hitch.
That is designed so people can't edit the URL to the answer screen and receive answers for the current one. It has a message like that to try and scare people off doing it (in the fear they will be reported)
However, due to some sloppy programming, every so often the answer box appears down the bottom for the current conundrum/mystery pic. Sometimes the answer box doesn't update to the actual answer. Either way you get that screen, it's there to stop newbie cheaters, not as a joke.
That is designed so people can't edit the URL to the answer screen and receive answers for the current one. It has a message like that to try and scare people off doing it (in the fear they will be reported)
However, due to some sloppy programming, every so often the answer box appears down the bottom for the current conundrum/mystery pic. Sometimes the answer box doesn't update to the actual answer. Either way you get that screen, it's there to stop newbie cheaters, not as a joke.
Sat Jun 11, 2005 7:19 am
Xerophyte wrote:It's just a joke.
More like bad joke.