User:Goldenratio/Best ways to trigger the CA community

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 DO:

(list by several wiki editors, with various stuff also from forum threads)

General:

• Use multiple sockpuppets/alts
• Make silly user-specific posts/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 admins' 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 or a tiny p19 and then insisting “well, you guys missed it, I guess”
• Rediscover the glider and call it 5P4H1V1
• Rediscover the LWSS and call it 9P4H2V0
• Rediscover the MWSS and call it 11P4H2V0
• Rediscover the HWSS and call it 13P4H2V0
• Post (re)discoveries of SL, p2, or p3 outside Thread For Your Useless Discoveries
• After somebody finishes a really big reduction to a spaceship/catalyst/oscillator synthesis, say "Yeah but it can be done in 15"
• Using PASTEET to make troll patterns in a thread where new posts are supposed to be legitemate (like Soup search results or Small Spaceship Syntheses)

OCA-specific:

• Post a strobing/B0 pattern without either warning beforehand or presetting the step to an even number
• Post a multistate rule without a rule table or rule tree (or another representation from which a rule table can be generated automatically by a reasonably well-known working tool)
• Make a project on a Wireworld computer after finding out that there is a Wireworld computer
• Using EPE to make troll patterns
• Post an incredibly large pattern you found using rlifesrc without optimizing it
• Create a rule format without defining it

Terminology-specific:

• Write "hickerize" instead of "corderize"
• Write "moving oscillator" instead of "spaceship"

Software-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 JLS and jslife
• 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, and zfind
• Describe all software as "scripts", even compiled programs, websites, etc.

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
• Keep bugging other members on 'Thread for basic questions'

Discord-only:

• Bring back #channel-debate
• Say "Discord is already a wasteland"
• Sim Caterer in #exotic-ca

(Work in progress)

Final tabulation

• 0: Congrats! You are either admin quality or a newcomer. Either is great.
• 1-5: Everyone makes mistakes. No worries!
• 6-15: Learn from your mistakes and do not cause harm. This is bad already, faster learn faster improve!
• 16-33: You are definitely suspicious. A vandal or troll perhaps?
• 34-100: The admins are targeting you and you know it.
• 101-10000: I don't even know what to say. How could you do this to our website?
• 10000+: The admins want to block you. Heck, before this stage most users would have earned permanent bans already.