Laws of the Internet ☀
1. Godwin’s Law:
“As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1.”
2. Poe’s Law:
“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:
“If it exists, there is porn of it.”
4. Skitt’s Law:
“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:
“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):
“If you have to insist that you’ve won an internet argument, you’ve probably lost badly.”
7. Pommer’s Law:
“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 (only the 2nd and 3rd laws apply generally):
2 - “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.”
3 - “Anyone who posts a picture with a caption which does anything other than describe the picture is deemed to have already lost on the point they were trying to make and it can be ignored.”
9. Cohen’s Law:
“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.”
11. Sturgeon’s Law
“Ninety percent of everything is crap”
