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• Is... there a reason why the text is moving down towards the right? ― Blaze Wolf^Talk_{Blaze Wolf#6545} 16:54, 3 April 2023 (UTC)Reply

  I assume someone at the printing press screwed it up. Legoktm (talk) 17:07, 3 April 2023 (UTC)Reply

  To be entirely fair to them, it's an easy mistake to make.

  Remagoxer ^(talk) 17:13, 3 April 2023 (UTC)Reply

  Ok so this entire thing is supposed to be a joke...so why isn't it in the humor section of the signpost? It's past April Fool's so this entire issue just being a joke makes no sense. ― Blaze Wolf^Talk_{Blaze Wolf#6545} 17:17, 3 April 2023 (UTC)Reply

  I suppose there will be a retraction, then. ☆ Bri (talk) 17:39, 3 April 2023 (UTC)Reply

• Oh-oh... Someone borrowed the "askew" command from Google. (For those who don't know - type in "askew" in the Google search box and see what happens. It's right up there with "do a barrel roll" and other shenanigans embedded in that search engine). cart-Talk 17:28, 3 April 2023 (UTC)Reply
• Bravo WaggersTALK 10:23, 4 April 2023 (UTC)Reply
• Personally i think this comes across a bit bitter. If signpost wants to defend the previous things they wrote, their right to have opinion pieces and editorial discretion, or whatever this piece is trying to signify, by all means just do it directly. Lazy sarcasm is unbecoming and unconvincing. Bawolff (talk) 15:28, 5 April 2023 (UTC)Reply

  +1 I think the Signpost ('s editors) are allowed to take positions on controversial stuff. I think anyone who is unhappy about the Signpost's editorial line and how it represents the Wikipedia community is free to found WP:TSOPNGIS and write counter-articles. But I also think the editors should take it as they dish it, and complaining that one’s article caused a big ANI fuss is whiny. Tigraan^{Click here for my talk page ("private" contact)} 16:40, 11 April 2023 (UTC)Reply

• You missed such wondrous articles as Local man lost at Sea, and "Fog in Channel, Continent Isolated" from the forgotten era when the signpost could be accused of an excessive focus on the English language Wikipedia, with consequent neglect of the rest of the Wikiverse, let alone the rest of the internet. ϢereSpielChequers 11:18, 6 April 2023 (UTC)Reply
• The sarcasm is really unfunny and off-taste. 113.160.44.130 (talk) 10:54, 8 April 2023 (UTC)Reply
• Night at the Museum was my first thought when I saw the painting at the top of this page, looks like one of the dioramas in it. 50.0.121.127 (talk) 04:42, 11 April 2023 (UTC)Reply
• I suggest we cut the salaries of the editors until they swiftly apologise and retract every single article published. ~ 🦝 Shushugah (he/him • talk) 16:45, 15 April 2023 (UTC)Reply