Dumb things you did as a newbie

It was 2016 and I was 18 years old playing Pokemon Y at the time. My starter was a female Fennekin so when my starter on here hatched and it was a male I got so mad I released him and haven't seen him since...where are you my son? Now whenever I see a starter in the shelter I adopt it and keep them safe just in case their original trainer wants them back.

Back when I joined, I was an extreme idiot and thought that each user had a limited supply of berries to feed Pokémon. So I only held eggs.

People from old Pokefarm will remember this one, when I was young and new there I foolishly tried my hand at Safety Matters, watched a 144p youtube video guide which was so bad quality you couldn't make out the hex values, and being like 11 years old at the time and not knowing a thing about programming proceeded to brick 3 party slots with bad eggs. On PFQ, when I first joined back in 2014 I thought adopting pokemon from the shelter to fill the pokedex was a good idea. Took me a few months to realize that I'm now missing a bunch of eggdexes. I stopped adopting pokemon from the shelter after that, unless it's a rare or special pokemon. Another dumb thing I did was when fossils first came to PFQ I thought collecting a finished fossil from the lab would break your shiny chain, so I once had a fossil sitting in the lab collecting dust and over 1 million clicks later before I decided to risk it and take it out, turns out fossils don't break chains when revived.