User:Goldenratio/Best ways to trigger the CA community
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Note: this is a joke page. Do NOT try any of the actions here unless you want to feel the greatest possible wrath of the CA community.
And please don't fall victim to the Streisand effect...
Demerit points:
- One for every thing you try below
- 100 if you have done everything
- 10,000 if you have done everything in one post/one day
Do not try these
(list by several wiki editors, with various stuff also from forum threads)
General:
- Use multiple sockpuppets/alts and ask silly user-specific questions to draw attention from other forum members
- Quote a post more than a year old without adding something constructive
- Post messages that only say 'goodbye'
- Make puns of the admin’s real names.
Pattern representations:
- Use [viewer] tags instead of [code] tags repeatedly, after you read and understood rule 5
- Use [viewer] tags on something non-groundbreaking without reducing the size using commands
- Post an image of a really complicated pattern instead of an RLE, after you read and understood rule 5
Pattern-specific:
- Claim you discovered something ridiculous like a 12-cell c/3 spaceship and then insisting “well, you guys missed it, I guess”
- Rediscover the glider and call it 5P4H1V1
- Add a soup at the back of a copperhead and say that it is a c/9 spaceship
- Post a useless SL, p2, or p3
- After somebody finishes a really big reduction to a spaceship/catalyst synthesis, say "Yeah but it can be done in 15"
OCA-specific:
- Post a strobing pattern without either warning beforehand or presetting the step to an even number
- Post a multistate rule without a rule table or rule tree
Terminology-specific:
- Write "hickerize" instead of "corderize"
- Write "moving oscillator" instead of "spaceship"
Script-specific:
- Claim some other program or app is better than Golly (unless it is actually better at something)
- Mix up WLS, JLS, LLS, and LSSS
- Mix up afind, bfind, cfind, dfind, efind, ffind, gfind, hfind, ifind, jfind, kfind, lfind, mfind, nfind, ofind, pfind, qfind, rfind, sfind, tfind, ufind, vfind, wfind, xfind, yfind, zfind, ntzfind, and oscar.
Thread-specific:
- Bump a thread where new posts are supposed to be exciting (like Soup search results or Small Spaceship Syntheses) without adding anything constructive
Discord-only:
- Bring back #channel-debate
- Say "Discord is already a wasteland"
- Sim Caterer in #exotic-ca
More coming...