Re: Laws Of The Internet

On 8/3/2026 11:43 PM, dart200 wrote:
> 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 ✌️
> 
The question is, are you smarter than a 5th Grader?

"Our younger generation is lost. While it doesn't apply to all 
millennials, I think most are humorless. They can't take a joke and they 
can't tell a joke. Overly sensitive narcissistic solipsists. And social 
media is the culprit. They don't read books. They could care less about 
history. They are fluent in the cliches of the early third millennium - 
diversity, inclusion, equity, anti-racism, antipatriarchy, 
antiheteronormativity - ostensibly political but actually just 
emotionally satisfying performative demands."

Feel better now?

Ned


>>
>> 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/ 
>> m/8f47BfB1BQAJ
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