Oh, and it was kind of weird that Qibing sort of expressed support of the formula in #biuret, but didn't write a novel about it on Smogon. I was almost disappointed >_>
My timing was a bit off on this. I wanted to do such, but I didn't want to force it too early. Then I got caught up with some work I was doing, and the next thing I knew Doug had started the next stage. I was originally going to post some extremely long bit about how I felt the formula should deal with each type of hax, but I was caught up on how to actually fully support this and deal with the issue of it needing to be 'obvious'. What I mean by that is: we needed to have the formula overturn wins in order to make this effective on april fools, but the logical argument (if we accept the premise of this in the first place) is that we should keep the win/loss, and just have the rating change based on the formula.
So by the time I got around to posting, I decided it would be best if I expressed concerns in the opposite direction (is this really working well enough?), while agreeing that it might be ready for testing soon due to how few battles were affected.
BTW, I've been sick for the last few days, and this thread is (literally) killing me due to laughter. I'm really glad we can consider this a success.
P.S. - A funny exchange when talking about Noah revealing the joke:
[23:47] darkie: make a new account "Noah"
[23:47] Tangerine: lol
[23:48] DP-Crobat: yeah
[23:48] Tangerine: with the shoddy mod badge
[23:48] DougJustDoug: Noah would be hilarious too.
[23:48] DP-Crobat: we need a Noah account
[23:48] reachzero: lol Noah** would be perfect for the White Knight role
[23:48] darkie: "This is Doug's bot speaking. I have taken over control of his computer and found the formula"
[23:49] Lorak: It needs to be all HAL2000-like.
[23:49] Lorak: "I can't allow you to overturn that battle, Dave. I mean Doug."
