You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means

[skunkboy]

There are many things people just don't seem to get on the internet, but the one I notice most often is a fundamental failure to understand Godwin's law.

I think a major cause of the problem is a fundamental misunderstanding of what sort of law it is. It is not a law in the legal sense, its a law in the scientific sense. It applied originally to

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[fionn_fezzic]

you nazi

[chunkyy]

Dispite this, anyone who resorts to such a comparison is in most cases out of anything genuinely useful to add to the discussion. Hence the confusion.

Yeah, but

[skunkboy]

As with any of the usenet Laws, derailing the thread into stupidity does not mean you lose. Recognizing standard trolling and walking away from the thread? That is made of win. Posting "Godwins Law says you lose!" just leads to a debate on the validity of the nazi reference, and if you bite on that, not only do you lose, you lose hard.

Always remember, this is not a debate with a judge and points. There are always people whose only objective is to overwhelm the signal with noise.

[caseypuffy]

I have been guilty of this :(