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.

Newcomers, take this page as a lesson on what you should not do.

And please don't fall victim to the Streisand effect...

Demerit points:

DO NOT DO:

(list by several wiki editors, with various stuff also from forum threads: demerit points are one point each except for those specified)

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 (5 demerit points)
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 (5 demerit points)
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 (5 demerit points)

Pattern-specific:

Claim you discovered something ridiculous like a 12-cell c/3 spaceship or a tiny p19 in Life and then insisting “well, you guys missed it, I guess” (10 demerit points)
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" (10 demerit points)
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 (2^n demerit points where n is the number of suers who have tried it: current n is probably 3)
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:

Software-specific:

Claim some other program or app is better than Golly (unless it is actually better at something)^{[note 1]}
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. (5 demerit points)

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:

(Work in progress)

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!
16-38: You are definitely suspicious. A vandal or troll perhaps?
39-100: 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.