woensdag 23 juli 2008

Godwin's law

Godwin's law

"As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one."

the law is now applied to any threaded online discussion: electronic mailing lists, message boards, chat rooms, and more recently blog comment threads and wiki talk pages.
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Godwin's Law is often cited in online discussions as a caution against the use of inflammatory rhetoric or exaggerated comparisons, and is often conflated with fallacious arguments of the reductio ad Hitlerum form.

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