How odd! I didn't notice any changes, so I don't know what caused it.Pity you didn't take a screenshot as I would have liked to see that. The SMF developers do sometimes include little jokes in the forum programming. I think when a person reaches 1337 posts it reads as "leet" on their profile.http://www.playmofriends.com/forum/index.php?topic=5735.0Maybe the gnomes were something like that.
Now, if it had happened on March 17th, they could have been leprechauns.