As I remember (and I can't be arsed to check)
And no one else could even see it, because the discussion
IS hidden.
, the list was born out of some members asking admins, in private, to not be pranked.
I don't remember such being mentioned. We had played with a
public thread, which was a dangerous idea, as it would (and did)
draw derision from other members. Dunc suggested the private
list. It seemed a good idea, in and of itself, even to me - just an
agreement by staff NOT to prank. A couple of staff members put
their names up, as a trial. Then, people were being added - but the
existence of the list was never publicized. So, someone like Hadron,
who was not on the in with the staff, and had certainly not expressed
any desire to not be pranked
wouldn't know about it. Now, hypothetically,
let's say that he really was afraid of being pranked, and chose to present
the false front, in order to mitigate damage - shouldn't he too have a
right to have been on it? There was no public announcement of such
a thread (except for what I insinuated) and there was no discussion about
sending each and every member a notification of its existence.
So, those on it were by staff whim, at some level.
Nothing malicious, nothing secretive, just a desire to keep those names below the radar while letting the admins know that these people did not want to be pranked.
Nothing malicious, I agree. I did not, and never will,
understand why the existence of the list was hidden.
Why only those whom certain staff selected might
have been contacted. And why one member who was
on the list, didn't know of its existence.
