User:Goldenratio/Best ways to trigger the CA community

This is written by: Goldenratio, hotcrystal0, cofocaloid

Edit by hotcrystal0: Just make it unable to be edited so it can’t become that.

Edit by user confocaloid: IMO a userpage protected from editing would be a rather strange thing. See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:NOTWEBHOST

Note: The title of the page is a joke. 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/meatpuppets
• 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]/[LV] tags instead of [code]/[pattern] tags repeatedly, after you read and understood rule 5
• Use [viewer]/[LV] 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
• Post anything in any format that’s not RLE or plaintext

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 any spaceship and call it by its systematic name
• After somebody finishes a really big reduction to a spaceship/catalyst/oscillator synthesis, say "Yeah but it can be done in 15"
• Using PASTET to make troll patterns in a thread where new posts are supposed to be legitemate (like Soup search results or Small Spaceship Syntheses) when the date is not April 1st

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
• Advertise Hunting's copyrighted rule without permission ^{[citation needed]}

Terminology-specific:

• Write "hickerize" instead of "corderize"

Software-specific:

• Claim some other program or app is better than Golly (unless it is actually better at something)
• 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)