Re: Laws Of The Internet

On 8/4/2026 1:58 PM, dart200 wrote:
> 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
>
Apparently, you missed this:

"fluent in the cliches of the early third millennium"

yo u r soaking innit. ymmv.
 >

>>
>> Ned
>>
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>>>>
>>>> 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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