February 11th, 2004, 9:07 pm
Hamilton, like an acute observer he is, has been keeping scores and proving the existence of Godwin's Law.QuoteGodwin's Law /prov./ [Usenet] "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.