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RULE #0 (THERE IS NO CABAL) "There Is No Cabal" is a phrase used on Usenet. Its common abbreviation, TINC, is used humorously to indicate that people should lighten up and not see a conspiracy around every corner, or alternatively as an ironic statement, indicating that everyone who knows "the cabal" will deny its own existence. The Godwin's Law FAQ numbers this rule as "0", indicating that it doesn't really exist as a rule either. RULE #1 :"Rule #1: There are no girls on the Internet." This sourceless Meme is sometimes cited on the Something Awful Forums and other related comedy websites, due to the abnormally high ratio of men to women on these websites. It is often used in order to doubt the gender of a forum poster. It has also evolved into a 4-chan meme, complete with girls being refrenced as 'traps', and that GIRL means 'Guy in Real Life'. This is especially mentioned at conventions, when it is blatantly obvious that a poster really IS a girl. RULE #2 (GILMORE'S LAW) :"The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it." This quote is attributed to John Gilmore , an online activist who works with the EFF . Its probable source is a 1993 Time Magazine article. This quote is often cited as a summary of past events, to point out that if there is censorship now, eventually information will make its way out to the public. A corollary, therefore, is "information wants to be free". RULE #4 (GODWIN'S LAW) Mike Godwin , a member of the Usenet discussion system, said in 1990: :"As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one." Frequently, a reference to Hitler is used as an evocation of evil. Thus a discussion proceeding on a positivist examination of facts is considered terminated when this objective consideration is transformed into a normative discussion of subjective right and wrong. The "Godwin's Law FAQ" refers to this as "Rule #4". {Link without Title} RULE #34 : "Rule #34: There is porn of it. No exceptions." Originally, Rule #34 was a comic made by Zoom-Out Productions in response to when the original writer of the comic ("Mr. Yokai") saw an image of Calvin and Hobbes having sexual relations with Calvin's mother, which provoked him to produce the comic. The one-panel comic depicts the webcomic's author at a computer with a stunned look upon his face, saying, "Calvin and Hobbes?". The comic was posted to the /b/ board of 4chan , thus becoming a Meme . When invoked, users of the forum in question usually see this as a challenge to either locate the hard-to-find image, or in some cases, draw or Digitally Manipulate it themselves. This can cause some rather nasty pictures to surface, as the law is applied more often to children's TV shows and movies (or other generally "clean" or "innocent" things) in an attempt to shock and disgust users rather than to prove a point about porn. However, despite the law's wording, there have been cases of characters that have no such content. This generally incites rampant picture editing work to prove the law right. In cases where the law has been throughly disproven (proof being a relative term, as it is based entirely on a group's will to meet the challenge) communities tend to forget such incidents and regard the law as entirely truthful, regardless. This attempt to fulfill Rule #34 has often been refered to on forums such as 4chan and iichan as Rule #35, which more or less states that if porn does not exist for something, the demand for porn will be met as demand arises. RULE #78 "There is a crack of it. No exceptions." This is a rule that shows that on the internet, the piracy of any kind and form of computer application has happened, and will happen again, and there are no exceptions. WILCOX-MCCANDLISH LAW The Wilcox-McCandlish Law of Online Discourse Evolution, developed by Bryce Wilcox and Stanton McCandlish ca. 1996, is: :"The chance of success of any attempt to change the topic or direction of a thread of discussion in a networked forum is directly proportional to the quality of the current content." See main article for corollaries. REFERENCES AND EXTERNAL LINKS
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