| (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]. |