Re: Laws Of The Internet

On 8/3/26 2:19 PM, Dude 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."

word on the street is that i use less caps than the rest of ya'll ✌️

> 
> 11. The law of the excluded middle:
> 
> "The more laws on the internet the less information." (Dude addendum)
> 
> https://groups.google.com/g/alt.buddha.short.fat.guy/c/RH6Z8IeH2z8/ 
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