That lovely time of the year has arrived just again, the lovely first day of April. In internet, it starts in Kiribati (Christmas Islands) GMT +14 and it ends of Baker Island, GMT -12. Those are fun time where the craziest news hits the web and PPM has been traditionally part of this fun for many years.
However, world is changing and one of the problems that are causing havoc in the internet is something that is being called Fake News. Disinformation, fictions created all over the year with the purpose destroying the reputation of entities or turning people against others. Some people may claim that these fake news can decide elections. Others that it can kill people, cause accidents. Fake news are being denounced by authorities all around the world, hunted by the major media corporations. We do not want any connection of PPM with these evil things. Project Perfect Mod is a community about making game modifications and its resources. It is not about tricking people or spreading hate.
So, in order to prevent more confusion, we decided to no longer create april's fools jokes, as they could be easily confused with fake news. It may sound like a fool thing for some of you, but prevention is our best medicine against problems that may rise from it.
And we have a considerable curriculum with some very nasty april's fools joke that were done in our past. There were fake tool beta testing, open source softwares that became shareware,
a ultimate graphic editor that has gone nowhere, an attempt to allow users to sell their content in our forums, a special invitation for nothing, among other absurd things.... and even the news from our friends included buying spree activities from Electronic Arts.
We will not repeat these mistakes again and we will not come up with a lie saying that we will not do these things again. We will always be your reliable place even during these moments. Enough of #FakeNews, we are done here.
However, world is changing and one of the problems that are causing havoc in the internet is something that is being called Fake News. Disinformation, fictions created all over the year with the purpose destroying the reputation of entities or turning people against others. Some people may claim that these fake news can decide elections. Others that it can kill people, cause accidents. Fake news are being denounced by authorities all around the world, hunted by the major media corporations. We do not want any connection of PPM with these evil things. Project Perfect Mod is a community about making game modifications and its resources. It is not about tricking people or spreading hate.
So, in order to prevent more confusion, we decided to no longer create april's fools jokes, as they could be easily confused with fake news. It may sound like a fool thing for some of you, but prevention is our best medicine against problems that may rise from it.
And we have a considerable curriculum with some very nasty april's fools joke that were done in our past. There were fake tool beta testing, open source softwares that became shareware,
a ultimate graphic editor that has gone nowhere, an attempt to allow users to sell their content in our forums, a special invitation for nothing, among other absurd things.... and even the news from our friends included buying spree activities from Electronic Arts.
We will not repeat these mistakes again and we will not come up with a lie saying that we will not do these things again. We will always be your reliable place even during these moments. Enough of #FakeNews, we are done here.