Internet Laws

I just discovered that there are internet laws (such as Godwin's law) I didn't know they existed. I thought it might help with the forums if people are aware of them.

I'd be interested to know any others, so if you know or have made up any, please post below. 

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 net discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 

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. 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.”

4. Cohen’s Law 

Proposed by Brian Cohen in 2007, states that: “Whoever resorts to the argument that ‘whoever resorts to the argument that... …has automatically lost the debate’ has automatically lost the debate.”

5. Graham's Disagreement Hierarchy

Source : http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Graham%27s_Hierarchy_of_Disagreement.svg

Paul Graham proposed a "disagreement hierarchy" in a 2008 essay "How to Disagree",putting types of argument into a seven-point hierarchy and observing that "If moving up the disagreement hierarchy makes people less mean, that will make most of them happier."

Although originally written as a simple list, Graham's hierarchy can be represented as a pyramid with the most convincing form of disagreement at the top, and the weakest at the bottom:

6. Lewis's Law

Helen Lewis's law is taken from her observation in 2012 that "the comments on any article about feminism justify feminism".

Thats so true... 

It never fails to be accurate

7. Comments on a forum about women's chess justify feminism.

Trysts , why only on feminism , I can think of many more mindless opinions.

8. Cunningham's Law states "the best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question, it's to post the wrong answer."

@Ruby:

@pelly: You can probably get an eponymous law named after you, pelly, if you care to spend the time thinking about all the mindless opinions you have come across;)

A1. Pelly's Hypothesis states "if you care to spend the time thinking about all the mindless opinions you have come across , you can probably get an eponymous law named after you."

That's kind of like Stigler's Law: "No scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer"

A2. Pelly's Conclusion on Internet Anonimity states :  "Anything you say can't and won't be used against you."

• Hebb's law – "Neurons that fire together wire together."

I'm guessing Stigler wasn't the first one to come up with that.

I have a couple of observations.

1. The more mindlessly insignificant the content, the greater its popularity.

2. The more vitally important the impetus for the search, the more closely the number of distractions approach infinity.

Also, I frequently feel that comments on feminism actually justify something a bit more extreme, like homicide, eugenics, or going to live in a cave ()

14. Shaker's Law states that:

        Ronnie's law when approached by a mod. Deny, Deny, Deny.  I didn't do anything wrong, and I WON'T DO IT AGAIN.