Laws Of The Internet

"The Overriding Law of the Internet: The Thing We Talk About is the 
Thing We Love." - Ned

Ned Ludd's 1st law:

All posts to Usenet are ultimately self-referential.

Ned Ludd's 2nd law:

Any unmoderated Usenet group dedicated to a specific subject will 
eventually attract a majority of participants who are dedicated to 
opposing, insulting and interfering with the participants who wish to 
foster, praise and advance the subject matter of the group.

Ned Ludd's 3rd law:

The validity of the central point of any article posted to the internet 
is inversely proportional to the length of the article proposing it.

Cunningham's Law:

The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a 
question, but rather to post the wrong answer. Internet users can easily 
ignore a request for help, but have a hard time resisting the urge to 
appear smarter than the original poster.

1. Godwin’s Law:

The most famous of all the internet laws, formed by Mike Godwin in 1990. 
As originally stated, it said: "As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the 
probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1."

2. Poe’s Law

Not to be confused with the law of poetry enshrined by Edgar Allan Poe, 
the internet Poe’s Law states: “Without a winking smiley or other 
blatant display of humour, it is impossible to create a parody of 
fundamentalism that someone won't mistake for the real thing.”

3. Rule 34 States:

“If it exists, there is porn of it.” See also Rule 35: “If no such porn 
exists, it will be made.” Generally held to refer to fictional 
characters and cartoons, although some formulations insist there are "no 
exceptions" even for abstract ideas like non-Euclidean geometry, or 
puzzlement.

4. Skitt’s Law:

Expressed as "any post correcting an error in another post will contain 
at least one error itself" or "the likelihood of an error in a post is 
directly proportional to the embarrassment it will cause the poster."

5. Scopie’s Law
States: “In any discussion involving science or medicine, citing 
Whale.to as a credible source loses the argument immediately, and gets 
you laughed out of the room.”

6. Danth’s Law (also known as Parker’s Law):


States: “If you have to insist that you've won an internet argument, 
you've probably lost badly.”

7. Pommer’s Law:

States: “A person's mind can be changed by reading information on the 
internet. The nature of this change will be from having no opinion to 
having a wrong opinion.”

8. DeMyer's Laws:

There are four: the Zeroth, First, Second and Third Laws. The Second Law 
states: “Anyone who posts an argument on the internet which is largely 
quotations can be very safely ignored, and is deemed to have lost the 
argument before it has begun.” The Zeroth, First and Third Laws cannot 
be very generally applied and will be glossed over here.

9. Cohen’s Law:

States that: “Whoever resorts to the argument that ‘whoever resorts to 
the argument that... …has automatically lost the debate’ has 
automatically lost the debate.”

10. The Law of Exclamation:

"The more exclamation points used in an email (or other posting), the 
more likely it is a complete lie. This is also true for excessive 
capital letters."

11. The law of the excluded middle:

"The more laws on the internet the less information." (Dude addendum)

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