Superintendent (Viral Campaign)

The Superintendent is an enigmatic entity on Bungie.net that has so far placed a large part in publicising Bungie's unknown latest project. It has been made into several wallpapers and was one of the seven Bungie Day 08 gamer pictures downloadable on Xbox Live Marketplace.

Bungie.net Forum Posts
The Superintendent made a series of forum post on several different Bungie.net topics. They all seem to have advice to forum-goers in the form of metaphors.


 * KEEP IT CLEAN
 * BE A HERO! REPORT VIOLATORS
 * LOOK BOTH WAYS BEFORE CROSSING
 * PARDON OUR DUST
 * BEACH OPEN FOR WATER CONTACT
 * YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK
 * GOOD CITIZENS CONSERVE FUEL
 * WHITE ZONE FOR LOADING ONLY
 * PLEASE REMAIN CALM
 * CLICK IT OR TICKET
 * RECYCLING: DO YOUR PART!
 * SPEED ZONE AHEAD
 * VEHICLE MAKES FREQUENT STOPS
 * WALKWAY ENDING, PLEASE LOOK DOWN
 * OBEY POSTED LIMITS
 * ENTER AT YOUR OWN RISK

The forum entries are coloured green, hinting that the Superintendent has special forum abilities, but is not the same as a forum ninja (orange) or Bungie staff (gold).

KEEP IT CLEAN
Several of the Superintendent's posts were KEEP IT CLEAN with some of the letters replaced with numbers.
 * 0EEP IT CLEAN
 * K7EP IT CLEAN
 * KE1P IT CLEAN
 * KEEP IT 1LEAN
 * KEEP I8 CLEAN
 * KEEP IT CLE0N
 * KEEP 0T CLEAN
 * KEEP IT C0EAN
 * KEEP IT CL3AN
 * KEE4 IT CLEAN

When the numbers are combined, it forms 0714081030, which, when converted to a date/time format, gives the time of the start of the countdown to Bungie's intended announcement (when the Bungie home page was altered) - 07/14/08 at 10:30 PST. The countdown was scheduled to finish at 7|07:07:07 PST on 16th July 2008.