Re: Laws Of The Internet

On 8/3/2026 2:59 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
> 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:
>>
>> 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)
>>
> 
> The law of self confirmation:
> This message mentions hitler.

Noted:

12. The law of self confirmation:

This message mentions hitler.
 >

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