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I think that by this time, it's April 2nd on the whole globe, with the possible exception of Hawaii and Alaska, which don't count, being fictional places.
As such, shouldn't the chapter be removed or atleast heavily titled "April Fool's Chapter" or something, so that it doesn't actually fool anyone beyond April 1st?
Isn't "Aprilis Foolios!" at the end enough to make it clear ?
People generally reach the end only after they've read the previous bits. By then people may have been fooled improperly (at a time other than April 1st).
As such my point stands.
I may add some warning to the beginning; it depends on whether we continue maintaining the spurious website. I'm a little concerned that so closely imitating the actual fanfiction.net will be problematic, but I also don't want this story to become unavailable.
That seems the least difficult of concerns. You can post it normally to fanfiction.net, under your own nickname, titling it "An April's Fool's presentation of Methods of Rationality" or whatever -- so that nobody gets fooled, but still everyone can get to read it.