pranks

There is probably a pranks team in Goog that publicises the ideas to see who will blindly follow.

Spam accounts seem to be detected and removed within a month, based on my experience purchasing bulk followers for pranks.

Some of Real Genius was adapted from real pranks perpetrated at Caltech and elsewhere.

There's clearly evidence to support us not having nice things because of childish pranks.

My point is we don't actually want to deter students pulling harmless pranks which expose serious security weaknesses.

So far, best uses I came up with are silly pranks (but that may just be me).

Something like pranks, or ways to mess with people's heads, but harmless, funny, and innocent.

Everyone knows April Fool's pranks have to end at noon...

Sounds ripe for abuse/pranks (as happened in the article).

Had this been the method of dealing with such pranks when I was in school, I would have a very long rap sheet.

I think there were pranks related to Xbox voice control as well.

Thus, playing pranks with rules can become enjoyable.

The ambiguity of text + the physical separation from others opens the door for all manner of 'bad' behavior, but also for more playful stuff like pranks, practical jokes, and garden variety "teasing".

"Harmless pranks" like this can have bad results...

Beyond that, there was a rather large social media "landgrab" when Ello first hit mainstream circles where popular social media personalities claimed both accounts with their usual pseudonyms and also the pseudonyms of friends and rivals (as both jokes and pranks).