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The Incredible Story of What Was Lost and Found Again During What Would be Later Known as "The Great Debacle"
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I am here to both confess, and be the living memory of what is to date, the greatest problem that has ever happened to the KarmaCourt Universe.


It was me that fucked up KC's CSS for April Fool's. I admit it, there is no denying I found pleasure in altering the colors, setting lightnings and rain onto our beloved subreddit. I even made the sidebar and the comments lightly inclined, only to realize my foolishness and setting the comments flat again. I decided to let the sidebar hang poorly to the side, like a used sock discarded on a drawer. The contrast between the comment's righteous indignation and the nonchalant inclination of the sidebar making the latter look even worse.

I was then trapped in the real life application, it's what really happened, I went out congratulating myself with a vicious smirk. I had fooled them. Fooled them good. But I couldn't log out of IRL. It was so real, so fun, so good.

When I finally got my senses back and logged to KC I was dumbfounded.

I had let the April Fool's CSS for literally days!... Shitstorm hitting helpless citizens on our front page, lightning striking the court audiences, the sidebar going sideways..!

What had I done?

The conveniently placed tags for easy removal weren't of any help:

    /*** April Fools ***/
     code...

       /*** End of April Fools ***/ 

No, I condemned the good and the wicked to the same sentence...


Waking up the dragon in each of my fellow mods...

  • /u/PastyDeath crying and thumping his fist on the tribune "I trusted you! Now look at this mess! I should remove your permissions for CSS! You're making us fools for your little prank!

  • /u/ineededtosaythishere was in shock, rocking back and forth in a corner, muttering inaudibly "I am the one who does random stuffs, I could have turn this place into a mess too if I wanted... I could have... I should have? No... I am the one that do random stuffs..."

  • /u/TheAtomicPlayboy as usual would only comment when /u/TheGrandDalaiKarma wasn't there; once more spreading the rumor about them being the same person. In a laconic and yet threatening sentence he let out that the CSS could be soon turned to a white page. "Austerity week" he said ;( , his imperial tone sending shivers down Pasty's back.

  • /u/hfern, /u/koreanTerran and /u/fastball360 holding hands in a circle of prayers and chanting ever so strongly and yet more and more desperate: "What once was shall always be, I believe in the good CSS, let thy .div{rotate: 0deg} come and your @animate{rain;100%} go away; What once was shall always be, I believe in the good CSS"

  • Running the code again and again /u/taowa was confused but determined, "I know some of these words, I've heard them... This code won't compile! Get me my DragonFly FreeBSD alpha 0.4 distro I'll hardboot from a SD card directly into the mainframe of Reddit Server API; God of Linux help me for I have overclocked my socket L3 memcach shared memory"

Hours after hours good and bad where under the same sky, and on this fateful week, no one knows exactly what happened but maybe, maybe... it was better that way.

Legend has that a courageous one rose, enveloped in a bright aura he walked the Earth of Reddit and Conquered the Empire of the Senses. Silencing Reddit as a whole the Chosen One found the Keys to the Heart of KC and hit the button.

KC went out.

KC process ending...

All systems: Shut down...

CMD:

It was over. Was it really how this ends? Was the curtain to never be drawn again?

In years would a curious trespasser pry open the doors only to face a court frozen in time? Judges solemn like marble sculptures, made one with their chairs. Lawyers stopped in their tracks, fingers pointed and splutters in mid-air. Sparkles from the executioner sharpening his axe immobile, still like stars on a peaceful night...

"No." whispered the Chosen One with confidence.

Loading KC boot sequence

Satire module: 101%... OK

Fun module: 92.2%... Partial OK

Regular module: 77%... Some files missing

Justice module: Err_Fail_Not_Found

KarmaCourt was born again, once more it rose from the ashes, against storms and tides it was standing again, standing against injustice, standing against the wrongdoers, standing for the victims, the helpless, the young and the wild, the free and the brave; Standing as a challenge to the world:

  • Internet Justice Finds a Way.

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