Re: Laws Of The Internet

On 8/4/26 8:47 AM, Dude wrote:
> 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?

word on the street is that u never even passed 5th grade which is why ur 
so obsessed with it

> 
> "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?

that ned it dead? ya prolly

> 
> 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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