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| (usenet, humour) | Godwin's Law - "As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the
probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler
approaches one." There is a tradition in many groups that,
once this occurs, that thread is over, and whoever mentioned
the Nazis has automatically lost whatever argument was in
progress. Godwin's Law thus practically guarantees the
existence of an upper bound on thread length in those
groups. However there is also a widely recognised codicil
that any intentional triggering of Godwin's Law in order to
invoke its thread-ending effects will be unsuccessful.
[Jargon]. | |
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No references found | Coun Mullaney may not be aware of a tradition among internet-users known as Godwin's Law - the first person to mention the Nazis in an argument is automatically deemed to have lost it. A corollary to Godwin's Law is the well-known tradition in the Internet's Usenet newsgroups that once a person in a discussion thread invokes the comparison to Hitler or the Nazis, the thread is ended and the person who made the comparison has automatically lost whatever argument was in progress. Jokers will appreciate such entries as HTCPCP, a joke format dreamt up as an April Fools Day joke, while historians will appreciate learning about Godwin's Law. |
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