Oscillators belong in the oscillator discussion thread.cvojan wrote:Some oscillators...
I wonder if this "useless discoveries" topic is really justified. Patterns are too frequently posted here when they belong somewhere else. It might be because "useless" does not preclude any other categorization. All Life patterns could be considered "useless" so everything - even things that belong elsewhere - could potentialy fit here.
I have a proposal that might remedy this to some extent: a "Thread for Your Miscellaneous Discoveries". This topic would be for any pattern that doesn't fit in an existing topic and isn't significant enough to deserve its own thread. It would likely also subsume the threads for your "accidental" and "unsure" discoveries.
My main fear is that people would think the "miscellaneous" discoveries thread has higher standards than the "useless" discoveries thread. That would not be my intent. It's essential to have a place to post things that might or might not be interesting or "useful". It's better that a boring pattern get posted than for an interesting pattern to go unposted. My real goal here is mostly to get oscillators and spaceships posted in their respective topics.