1000 signs you're not being a very good Lifenthusiast

[confocaloid]

41. you call puffers and glider guns "factories".

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#C p68 wide 2c/5 spaceship factory, DE 7 May 1998
x = 91, y = 83, rule = B35/S236
62bo$62bo$61bo$62bo$57bo5bob2o$56bobo5bo5bo7bo$56bob2o10bo6bobo$56bob
2o9b3o$56bo3b2o7b3o3bo2b2o$56bo3b3o6b3o2bo2bo$63bo11bobo$35bo22b5o$36b
o$36b2o44b3o$36bobo31bobo11bo$37b3o29bo2b2o8b2o$18b3o19bo12b2o15bobo
13b2o$17b5o21b3o6bo32bobo$16bobo2bo21b3o6b3o30bobo$17b2ob2o22bo7bo10b
2ob2o$17b4o28b3o11b2o2bo$19bo3b3o11bo10bobo10b2ob4o$22b2ob2o8b2ob2o8bo
bo10b3o$21b2o2b2o8bo3bo23bo$22b5o9bob2o21bobo$15bo6b2obo10bobo22b3o$
12b3o9bo6b2o4bo$11bobo17bob2o$11b2o17bo4bo$11bo19bob2o$10bo20b3o$68b2o
9bo$67bobobo6bobo$2o26bo38b2o2bo$3o10b2o13bo11b3o24b3ob2o5b3o$3bo9b3o
11b3o8b5o25bob2o7bo$3b2o8b2o12b3o10b3o25b3o$3b2o22b3o2$85bo2bo$7bo37bo
39bo2bo$8bo24bobo8bobo14b2o6bobo16b3o$6bo2bo22bo2b2o5b4obo13b3o4bob2o
13b3ob2o$8bo24bobo5b3o2bo14b2o6bobo16b3o$7bo77bo2bo$85bo2bo$8bo$8bo$9b
o30b3o25b3o$8bo29b5o25bob2o7bo$4b2obo32b3o24b3ob2o5b3o$6bo60b2o2bo$25b
obo39bobobo6bobo$25bobo40b2o9bo$26b3o$29bo$29b3o$29bo$30b2o29bobo$61bo
bo$14bo4b2o41bo$13b3o3b3o24bobo16b2o$13b3o6bo22b2ob2o14bo$22b2o22b2o2b
o14b2o$22b2o26b2o$7bobo39bo35b3o$7bobo27b2ob2o7b3o16bobo14bobo$5b2obo
28b2o2bo8bo16bo2b2o11b2o2bo$7bo27b2ob4o26bobo12bo$5b2o28b3o45b3o$37bo$
35bobo22bo14bo$35b3o21b2o12b2obo$60bo16bo$57bo11bobo6bo$56b3o10bobo2bo
4bo$65b2o3bo3bo5bo$64b3o8b2o2bo$63bo15bo$62bo$61bo$60b2o4bo$60b2o3bo!

[haaaaaands]

32: You find a "new" cluster of cells that fits in 4×4 and call it the "amogus" or similar.

"the amogus"... xd

[confocaloid]

45a. You worry too much about naming patterns/rules/other things, including things that are yet to be discovered.
45b. You could not care less about naming patterns/rules/other things, including things that definitely deserve a name.
46. You are expecting newcomers to know/understand things that most newcomers cannot reasonably be expected to know/understand.
47. You are expecting long-time members to remember/understand everything that happened in the past.
48. You worry too much about information scattering / management / having a productive environment / S/N ratio / attitudes of other people towards certain issues, at the expense of something else that is at least equally important.
49a. You worry too much about consistency/having standards/following guidelines, at the expense of the ability to come up with new ideas and having environment that helps with that.
49b. You could not care less about consistency and guidelines.

50a. You think true-period guns (or basically anything else, for that matter) are useful.
50b. You think true-period guns (and pretty much everything else related to cellular automata) are useless.

51. You confidently claim "drifters cannot move through empty space" or "Snark loops contain signals" or something, leaving open the question of whether it is reasonable to claim that explicitly on LifeWiki (or anywhere else outside the Sandbox, for that matter), and also completely ignoring differences between the challenge of explaining use of words/phrases and the challenge of defining the underlying concepts behind those words/phrases.

52a. You care too much about being reasonable.
52b. You could not care less about being reasonable.

53. You like to intentionally do something unreasonable/nonconstructive, "just to see how they would respond" or because you "just wanted to see how others would feel to the phenomenon" or something.

54. You post on this thread.

[haaaaaands]

54. You post on this thread.

it's fun

[confocaloid]

54. You post on this thread.

it's fun

* [for some definition of "fun"]

[hotcrystal0]

55. One of the things you post on this thread describe you
56. You call the glider 5P4H1V1
57. You have a chain of 10+ spammy multiposts

[haaaaaands]

58: YoU cApItAlIzE lIkE tHiS
59: you repeat yourself a lot
you repeat yourself a lot
you repeat yourself a lot
60: you mix up catalyst and catagolue

[haaaaaands]

61: spam spam spam spam
62: you "discovered" the lwss in 2023

edit: and this makes my 100th post in the sandbox. out of 114...

[confocaloid]

63: You do something mentioned on the page User:Goldenratio/Best ways to trigger the CA community

[hotcrystal0]

“with the typical user there acting like hotcrystal0”
That was old me, when I was making multiposts here and there.
64: Your username contains a number greater than 66608.
65: You don’t understand how killer toads can be useful

[unname4798]

“with the typical user there acting like hotcrystal0”
That was old me, when I was making multiposts here and there.
64: You don’t understand how killer toads can be useful

65: Your username contains a number smaller than 4798.

[hotcrystal0]

“with the typical user there acting like hotcrystal0”
That was old me, when I was making multiposts here and there.
64: You don’t understand how killer toads can be useful

66: Your username contains a number smaller than 4798.

67: You think there’s such thing as a “1-glider collision”
68: You only ever made one post to the forums and you’re not Aura

[HerscheltheHerschel]

69: You "discovered" the pi-heptomino in 2023

[haaaaaands]

70: you just "discovered" rule 110

[Haycat2009]

71: You enter the house as a POTY candidate and name it paperclip (This actually happened)
72: You officially become the 7546th user to rediscover the cyclic.

[Haycat2009]

“with the typical user there acting like hotcrystal0”
That was old me, when I was making multiposts here and there.
64: You don’t understand how killer toads can be useful

65: Your username contains a number smaller than 4798.

Oi! I saw that!

[dvgrn]

Thread locked.

I don't monitor the Sandbox the way I monitor the rest of the forums -- we're all volunteers around here, and I just don't have that kind of time.
Ordinarily I'd probably just delete a thread that was so likely to degenerate into a "make fun of newbies" thread, as soon as I noticed it. The likelihood of deletion would greatly increase as soon as the thread started to include direct attacks on specific forum members regarding current disagreements -- which is a clear violation of Rule 1, even on the Sandbox.

But at this point I'm kind of thinking that a locked thread might serve as a better "Pin of Shame" to remind people not to get into this kind of thing.

Please, y'all, try a little harder to be kind, honest, and respectful -- even when it doesn't seem like as much "fun". This is an academic forum, and you don't need to have any more of this kind of fun.