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[Baldesto]

apart from the spam, this thread has delivered.

[[TBAG]P.Dalziel]

The Swastika idea was a generic example. I wasn't taking offense to it. I was merely stating that there are far to many people posting offensive bs on these forums, then trying to mask it with "don't get angry, it's only meant as a joke".

I don't care if the message wasn't aimed at me, i was using your post as an example.

 Godwin's Law FAQ

Subject: How to post about Nazis and get away with it - the Godwin's Law FAQ
Newsgroups: alt.usenet.kooks,alt.usenet.legends,alt.answers,news.answers
Approved: news-answers-request@mit.edu
Summary: This is a list of frequently asked questions about Godwin's Law,
   the natural law relating Usenet and Nazis once and for all.  
Followup-To: alt.usenet.legends
From: tskirvin@killfile.org (Tim Skirvin)
Reply-To: tskirvin@killfile.org
Message-ID:
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:45:02 -0600
Expires: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 06:45:02 GMT

Archive-name: usenet/legends/godwin
Posting-Frequency: monthly
Last-Modified: October 7, 2003
Version: 1.15
URL: http://www.killfile.org/faqs/godwin.faq
Maintainer: tskirvin@killfile.org (Tim Skirvin)

                            Godwin's Law FAQ
                                  -or-
              "How to post about Nazis and get away with it"

One of the most famous pieces of Usenet trivia out there is "if you mention
Hitler or Nazis in a post, you've automatically ended whatever discussion
you were taking part in".  Known as Godwin's Law, this rule of Usenet has a
long and sordid history on the network - and is absolutely wrong.  This FAQ
is an attempt to set straight as much of the history and meaning of Godwin's
Law as possible, and hopefully encourage users to invoke it a bit more
sparingly.  Of course, knowing Usenet, it won't do an ounce of good...


[Standard Disclaimers: this document assumes you have some basic knowledge
 of Usenet; if you don't, go check out news.announce.newusers for a while to
 gain said knowledge.  Misuse of the information contained within this FAQ
 is not the responsibility of the author (though he's pretty confused exactly
 how you could misuse this information).  Copyright 1999-2002, Tim Skirvin,
 all rights reserved, <, fnord, furrfu.]


I.  The Basics
  1.  What is Godwin's Law?

   Godwin's Law is a natural law of Usenet named after Mike Godwin
(godwin@eff.org) concerning Usenet "discussions".  It reads, according to
the Jargon File:

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


  2.  What does it mean?

   It pretty much means exactly what it says - as a Usenet thread
goes on, the chances of somebody or something being compared to a Nazi
approach one.  


  3.  Yes, but what does it *mean*?

   Aah, now *there's* the real question.  

   In case your head has been buried in the sand for the last sixty
years or so, the Nazis were a German political party led by Adolf Hitler
that slaughtered upwards of ten million people that didn't meet their
standards of "ethnic purity" and set off to conquer Europe and the world
in World War II.  They are generally considered the most evil group of
people to live in modern times, and to compare something or someone to
them is usually considered the gravest insult imaginable.
   
   As a Usenet discussion gets longer it tends to get more heated; as
more heat enters the discussion, tensions get higher and people start to
insult each other over anything they can think of.  Godwin's Law merely
notes that, eventually, those tensions eventually cause someone to find
the worst insults that come to mind - which will almost always include a
Nazi comparison.  


  4.  That still doesn't answer my question.  What does it *MEAN*?

   The Law is generally used on Usenet as an indicator of whether a
thread has gone on too long, who's playing fair and who's just slinging
mud, and who finally gets to "win" the discussion.  It has, over time,
become the closest thing to an impartial moderator that Usenet can get.

   So, what this means in practical terms:

   o If someone brings up Nazis in general conversation when it
     wasn't necessary or germane without it necessarily being an
     insult, it's probably about time for the thread to end.
   o If someone brings up Nazis in general conversation when it
     was vaguely related but is basically being used as an insult,
     the speaker can be considered to be flaming and not debating.
   o If someone brings up Nazis in any conversation that has been
     going on too long for one of the parties, it can be used as
     a fair excuse to end the thread and declare victory for the
     other side.

[[TBAG]P.Dalziel]

The Swastika idea was a generic example. I wasn't taking offense to it. I was merely stating that there are far to many people posting offensive bs on these forums, then trying to mask it with "don't get angry, it's only meant as a joke".

I don't care if the message wasn't aimed at me, i was using your post as an example.

 Godwin's Law FAQ

Subject: How to post about Nazis and get away with it - the Godwin's Law FAQ
Newsgroups: alt.usenet.kooks,alt.usenet.legends,alt.answers,news.answers
Approved: news-answers-request@mit.edu
Summary: This is a list of frequently asked questions about Godwin's Law,
   the natural law relating Usenet and Nazis once and for all.  
Followup-To: alt.usenet.legends
From: tskirvin@killfile.org (Tim Skirvin)
Reply-To: tskirvin@killfile.org
Message-ID:
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:45:02 -0600
Expires: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 06:45:02 GMT

Archive-name: usenet/legends/godwin
Posting-Frequency: monthly
Last-Modified: October 7, 2003
Version: 1.15
URL: http://www.killfile.org/faqs/godwin.faq
Maintainer: tskirvin@killfile.org (Tim Skirvin)

                            Godwin's Law FAQ
                                  -or-
              "How to post about Nazis and get away with it"

One of the most famous pieces of Usenet trivia out there is "if you mention
Hitler or Nazis in a post, you've automatically ended whatever discussion
you were taking part in".  Known as Godwin's Law, this rule of Usenet has a
long and sordid history on the network - and is absolutely wrong.  This FAQ
is an attempt to set straight as much of the history and meaning of Godwin's
Law as possible, and hopefully encourage users to invoke it a bit more
sparingly.  Of course, knowing Usenet, it won't do an ounce of good...


[Standard Disclaimers: this document assumes you have some basic knowledge
 of Usenet; if you don't, go check out news.announce.newusers for a while to
 gain said knowledge.  Misuse of the information contained within this FAQ
 is not the responsibility of the author (though he's pretty confused exactly
 how you could misuse this information).  Copyright 1999-2002, Tim Skirvin,
 all rights reserved, <, fnord, furrfu.]


I.  The Basics
  1.  What is Godwin's Law?

   Godwin's Law is a natural law of Usenet named after Mike Godwin
(godwin@eff.org) concerning Usenet "discussions".  It reads, according to
the Jargon File:

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


  2.  What does it mean?

   It pretty much means exactly what it says - as a Usenet thread
goes on, the chances of somebody or something being compared to a Nazi
approach one.  


  3.  Yes, but what does it *mean*?

   Aah, now *there's* the real question.  

   In case your head has been buried in the sand for the last sixty
years or so, the Nazis were a German political party led by Adolf Hitler
that slaughtered upwards of ten million people that didn't meet their
standards of "ethnic purity" and set off to conquer Europe and the world
in World War II.  They are generally considered the most evil group of
people to live in modern times, and to compare something or someone to
them is usually considered the gravest insult imaginable.
   
   As a Usenet discussion gets longer it tends to get more heated; as
more heat enters the discussion, tensions get higher and people start to
insult each other over anything they can think of.  Godwin's Law merely
notes that, eventually, those tensions eventually cause someone to find
the worst insults that come to mind - which will almost always include a
Nazi comparison.  


  4.  That still doesn't answer my question.  What does it *MEAN*?

   The Law is generally used on Usenet as an indicator of whether a
thread has gone on too long, who's playing fair and who's just slinging
mud, and who finally gets to "win" the discussion.  It has, over time,
become the closest thing to an impartial moderator that Usenet can get.

   So, what this means in practical terms:

   o If someone brings up Nazis in general conversation when it
     wasn't necessary or germane without it necessarily being an
     insult, it's probably about time for the thread to end.
   o If someone brings up Nazis in general conversation when it
     was vaguely related but is basically being used as an insult,
     the speaker can be considered to be flaming and not debating.
   o If someone brings up Nazis in any conversation that has been
     going on too long for one of the parties, it can be used as
     a fair excuse to end the thread and declare victory for the
     other side.

[detonator7]

P.Dalziel;602256'] insert [TBAG]P.Dalziel's story here

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[nzjeebs]

lol this isnt supposed to be a discussion! your supposed to post your images and have a laugh and tell each other how funny they were not argue! MAKE ANOTHER THREAD IF YOU WANT TO ARGUE FFS!

Im not against people getting offended and pissed off, but this thread isnt the place to do it in.

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Also, this is quite interesting and another reason why japan is fucking awesome.



(Notice NZ is actually very high)

[Zarkov]

Interesting post Dalziel.

Once would have been enough though.

[Deviant]

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what?

[private_hell]

look in the windows of hte house

[Alexo256]

LOL Nice

Very subtle

[Baffled]

look in the windows of hte house

rofl.... i was wondering wtf that pic was for as well

[Spork]

I knew what it was about so did a bit of searching and found everybody's favorite furry friend.

[Goldo]

I knew what it was about so did a bit of searching and found everybody's favorite furry friend.

Yeah lol, was wondering about it for a minute then looked around

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[ParagonX4]

look in the windows of hte house

Its Pedobear!!

[Goldo]

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[DECLAR. RAWR.]

Zarkov was referring to the amount of posts you made as Lowrex has quite a high post per day, if you read Zarkov's post you see he talks about you making 19 posts in a day.

Was just saying you are Probably Lowrex friend from the amount of spam you have produced. Yet to me you do not seem IST worthy.

hmmm ok thanks for clearing that up... BTW what does IST mean?!?

[krasher]

This thread delivers.

Mod needs to remove all posts that have no pics IMO.

[DECLAR. RAWR.]

This thread delivers.

Mod needs to remove all posts that have no pics IMO.

your post has no pictures should we delete yours?

[krasher]

your post has no pictures should we delete yours?

Yes.

[nzjeebs]

This thread delivers.

Mod needs to remove all posts that have no pics IMO.

I totally agree.

[detonator7]

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[nzjeebs]

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[Deviant]

ewww

[Zarkov]

This thread delivers.

Mod needs to remove all posts that have no pics IMO.

I've got a couple of weeks leave at Xmas, I'll get on to it then.

In the meantime you tards can help by not adding to the problem.

[Obbles]

I've got a couple of weeks leave at Xmas, I'll get on to it then.

Ill be thinking of you

[detonator7]

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