Godwin's Law

I think Russ should make Godwin's law part of the TOS. Here it is and a link with more information. Funny and a good idea at the same time.

Godwin's law
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Godwin's law (also Godwin's rule of Nazi analogies) is an adage in Internet culture that was originated by Mike Godwin in 1990. The law states that:

As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.
There is a tradition in many Usenet newsgroups that once such a comparison is made, the thread is over, and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever argument was in progress. In addition, whoever points out that Godwin's law applies to the thread is also considered to have "lost" the battle, as it is considered poor form to invoke the law explicitly. Godwin's law thus practically guarantees the existence of an upper bound on thread length in those groups. Many people understand Godwin's law to mean this, although (as is clear from the statement of the law above) this is not the original formulation.

Nevertheless, there is also a widely-recognized codicil that any intentional invocation of Godwin's law for its thread-ending effects will be unsuccessful. See "Quirk's exception" below.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law

TheSkipper

Originally posted by TheSkipper
I think Russ should make Godwin's law part of the TOS. Here it is and a link with more information. Funny and a good idea at the same time.

Godwin's law
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Godwin's law (also Godwin's rule of Nazi analogies) is an adage in Internet culture that was originated by Mike Godwin in 1990. The law states that:

As ...[text shortened]... . See "Quirk's exception" below.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law

TheSkipper

Godwin was a Nazi, though.

Originally posted by Alcra
Interesting, however :

You lose (on both accounts)!

mwahhahaaaaa




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Interesting. I had never encountered this. Thank you for the reference.

I see that it has a great deal of truth in it. Perhaps an "absolute" truth.

I think that the reason is that we all tend to want to "win" so badly that eventually we equate our "foe" to the biggest "mass loser" that has gained "universal" recognition and least support in our "chimp" universe. Which is "mass media, private society and family".

The Nazi's took it on the chin big time. As did the communists.

Godwins law seems to validate the svw truism that "In every chimp fight, nicities will all eventually die and be replaced by honest to god poop chucking."