Re: Laws Of The Internet

On Mon, 3 Aug 2026 14:19:47 -0700, Dude <[email protected]> wrote:

>"The Overriding Law of the Internet: The Thing We Talk About is the 
>Thing We Love." - Ned
>
>Ned Ludd's 1st law:
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>All posts to Usenet are ultimately self-referential.
>
>Ned Ludd's 2nd law:
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>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:
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>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:
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>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:
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>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:
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>“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.
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>4. Skitt’s Law:
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>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.”
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>7. Pommer’s Law:
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>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.”
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>8. DeMyer's Laws:
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>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:
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>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:
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>"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."
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>11. The law of the excluded middle:
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>"The more laws on the internet the less information." (Dude addendum)
>
>https://groups.google.com/g/alt.buddha.short.fat.guy/c/RH6Z8IeH2z8/m/8f47BfB1BQAJ


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