...reread Gipper's post above, or any of his posts made after Scoot make his 1k.
Just to clear things up:
Twitch is on the left coast, and is an admin.
I'm in the dirty south, a moderate moderating moderator.
The prank on Scoot took place spontaneously in an online chat between him and some other heads... I didn't even know the prank was going on until this thread was already two pages deep, I think that's around when Twitch got in on it too. The joke is that Scoot found out some big major "secret," and other Pals in the know helped to hype it up and make it overblown and super scandalous, but then when Twitch/me lost his job, it was the peak of the joke. It's a little convoluted and barely makes sense, but it's been really funny.
Basically, Scoot got hazed in pretty hard core but I think he took it well, so cheers to him for that.