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Dave Greene discovered a counter-example to popular belief, IceNine, a massive seed that grows very slowly, quadratically, and unstoppably. This is characteristic of a rule like Seeds or 34 Life, except IceNine requires a much larger critical mass (about 10 megapixels). Yes, this does grow irregula...

EDIT by dvgrn: I've moved this post and responses to it out of the Edit War Reporting Thread. That thread is meant for self-reporting new edit wars that have started up, not for long discussions of any particular issue. Those discussions should find their way onto some separate dedicated thread on ...

There is a error, where "10 of 170" dyks are shown, but only 161 of them are actually shown. Can an admin correct this? Are you sure that that's still a problem anywhere? I'm not seeing it. Ian07 made the relevant update four days ago. Only 161 dyks in https://conwaylife.com/wiki/LifeWiki:Did_you_k...

(3,0)c/10 is both fast and high period. There's nothing really special about it except that it's the simplified speed of the natural pi propagation. It's very unlikely to be found any time soon, and I think there would generally be less interest in this speed which further reduces its chances. Yes,...

Just curious, are we more likely to find a spaceship with speed:
c/8o,
c/9o,
c/9d,
3c/10o,
c/7k,
c/8c?

Protecting the T life page is a little overboard just to stop one or two editors, as it prevents more productive edits from taking place. I suggest giving a partial block (For only the t life page) to those that have caused the most chaos in the edit war, instead of protecting it and not allowing a...

There is a error, where "10 of 170" dyks are shown, but only 161 of them are actually shown. Can an admin correct this?

Protecting the T life page is a little overboard just to stop one or two editors, as it prevents more productive edits from taking place. I suggest giving a partial block (For only the t life page) to those that have caused the most chaos in the edit war, instead of protecting it and not allowing an...

hotdogPi wrote: ↑

November 27th, 2023, 8:28 am

Haycat2009 wrote: ↑

November 27th, 2023, 2:18 am

If cvojan had created the spam pages in their userspace, I would have ignored them.

You do realize those pages contained racial slurs, right?

Yes, but I would only have ignored those without.

I understand, but the userpage is one's castle. One can do anything they like as long as it does not spread out to the main page space. Things like spam, attacking content, high-activity editing are still detrimental, even if in userspace. Ultimately the wiki is a shared space with a specific scope...

Can you please tame B2a/S12 such in a way that lightspeed travel is still possible, but it does not explode?

No need. Most Users have no other place to create hooked or sus stuff. As long as it stays within the Userpage space, it is fine. Maybe it would be fine (but this comes from just another pseudorandom CA enthusiast and wiki editor), if only (a) it was significantly less active than it is recently, (...

So far, here and on Discord, there haven't been any claims that the Mikipedia pages are relevant to the LifeWiki in any way. The best argument is that " edits are fine if it’s just once in a while". But "once in a while" isn't a good description of the last several days of editing (before today). A...

Moosey wrote: ↑

June 9th, 2020, 8:32 pm

Mikipedia wrote:DUCKS ARE THE GREATEST EVIL KNOWN TO MAN AAAAAAAAAAAAAA

And "Ducks" represents quack doctors.

https://xkcd.com/2595/ In 2022 Cribbage does not exist, so the p19 category was useless, and attempts to add cribbage was spam. Such attempts could be considered spam (e.g. if it was some non-CA-related content). Or the page could be moved to another pagename, if it happened to be about a notable t...

If B36/S23 was named recently, you would still be doing this. I would still be doing what, exactly? In a parallel universe where B36/S23 was only named a few weeks or months ago and only few people looked into it, it would not make a lot of sense to go and replace all occurrences of the rulestring ...

Highlife has the same amount of sense as Grounded Life, but it is still preferred. HighLife was investigated/discussed by more people who used the name over time in discussions. B35/S23 was named recently. If B36/S23 was named recently, you would still be doing this. In 2022 Cribbage does not exist...

Names of things are not required to mean or "symbolise" anything at all. If several people other than you used the same name consistently over time to refer to the same thing, that suffices to keep the name on the wiki. As a pseudorandom example, the recently-coined name 'Grounded Life' for B35/S23...

keeping inaccurate info The name of something (a rule, a pattern, a corporation, etc.) does not generally provide any particularly accurate information. This is normal. Names do not have to make sense. The existing name is commonly used and there are no other commonly used names (unless you count t...

keeping inaccurate info The name of something (a rule, a pattern, a corporation, etc.) does not generally provide any particularly accurate information. This is normal. Names do not have to make sense. So are you implying that I can name several unnamed rules weird things, like Sus Rule for B38/S23...

dvgrn wrote: ↑

November 23rd, 2023, 5:47 am

Haycat2009 wrote: ↑

November 23rd, 2023, 12:00 am

Can those that help out vote?

Every forum user who wants to vote, can put in a vote.

Can I help? B3s23 love can still host it and count.

Other then B/S012345678, are there any other reversable INT CA?

Why are margolus rules usually reversable? Also, what is the notation for margolus rules?

TYCF wrote: ↑

November 23rd, 2023, 2:43 am

What is the smallest glider to pi-heptomino and the smallest b-heptomino to glider?

The baitless G-pi, for the first one.

3. Move it to "OCA:sqrt replicator rule" or (in keeping with O(sqrt(log(t))) ) "OCA:Θ(√t) replicator rule" (Proposed by me) I support this option. People are just going to make up random and even less accurate names (eg. Sussy rule, Toll booth, Air Jordan Rule) if we move it to B36/S245. EDIT by dv...