Just to be clear about my own part in this: I was on vacation from Friday until Today and had no idea this was going to happen. I sincerely apologize to anyone who disliked or felt in anyway intimidated whatsoever. April 1st had already passed without any major jokes/pranks and it never entered my mind that the staff would pull a "late" one. I've never seen an April Fool's joke on a forum like this that didn't upset some people, so I've always thought it was a bad idea. Again, I apologize for this and will take measures to make sure it doesn't happen again.
When you say "The Staff" what exactly do you mean? A lot of us were either not here at the time, or not participating.
I think that was just damage control to calm people down.
