Leis que todos os foristas deveriam conhecer
Enviado: 09 Jan 2010, 09:19
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Leis que todos os foristas deveriam conhecer
O jornal inglês Telegraph compilou algumas das principais leis que volta e meia aparecem citadas em listas de discussão, fóruns e blogs.
Lei de Godwin
Resultado de anos de discussões exacerbadas em fóruns e listas de discussão, foi criada por Mike Godwin em 1990 na Usenet, e prevê que "à medida que uma discussão se prolonga, a probabilidade de uma comparação envolvendo nazistas ou Hitler chega a 1".It is closely related to the logical fallacy “reductio ad Hitlerum”, which says “Hitler (or the Nazis) liked X, so X is bad”, frequently used to denigrate vegetarians and atheists.
Common Godwin's Law appearances include describing women's rights campaigners as “feminazis”, comparing the former US President George W Bush to Hitler, or saying Barack Obama's proposed healthcare reforms are the new Holocaust.
In its broader sense it can be used to describe any situation where a poster loses all sense of proportion, for example describing New Labour as “Zanu-Labour” after Robert Mugabe’s Zimbabwean political party Zanu-PF.
As well as the descriptive form, it can be used prescriptively: so if any poster does mention the Nazis in a discussion thread, Godwin’s Law can be invoked, they instantly lose the argument and the thread can be ended.
If this is done deliberately to end the argument, however, it does not apply. This codicil is known as “Quirk’s Exception”.
Lei de Poe
A regra criada por Nathan Poe em 2005 afirma que "sem um emoticon ou outra clara exibição de humor, é impossível criar uma paródia fundamentalista sem que outras pessoas a tomem como verdade". Foi criada em debate sobre criacionismo em um fórum cristão.Poe’s Law also has an inverse meaning, stating that non-fundamentalists will often mistake sincere expressions of fundamentalist beliefs for parody.
Examples abound – one particularly difficult-to-judge site claims that “Heliocentrism [the belief that the Earth orbits the Sun, rather than the other way around] is an Atheist Doctrine”.
One that must, surely, be a parody is sexinchrist.com (WARNING: link contains adult material), a site that offers Christians advice on the rights and wrongs of such activities as threesomes and pubic shaving, among much more.
However, it is hard to be entirely certain, given the existence of christiannymphos.org (WARNING: link contains adult material), an apparently entirely serious site.
Here is an example of a parody site that embodies both Godwin's and Poe's Laws.
Regra 34
A regra 34 revela que se "algo existe, tem pornografia disso"- um tema recorrente na internet, afinal. Entre os exemplos mais comuns estão os hentais (desenhos eróticos japoneses) e os ensaios de Marge Simpson e Jessica Rabbit na Playboy americana.See also Rule 35: “If no such porn exists, it will be made.” Generally held to refer to fictional characters and cartoons, although some formulations insist there are "no exceptions" even for abstract ideas like non-Euclidean geometry, or puzzlement.
For obvious reasons it is not appropriate for lengthy discussion in a family newspaper, but the recent appearance of Marge Simpson on the cover of Playboy, pictured above, was a (very mild) example of the law in action, and going mainstream.
The spread of fanfic, slash fiction and hentai around the internet, as well as the rise of furries, are making this law more and more accurate every day.
The other 33 rules change frequently, except one and two, which are “Do not talk about /b/” and “Do NOT talk about /b/”, respectively, referring to a message board on the 4chan.org website.
Lei de Danth
Talvez a mais simples e objetiva de todas, dizendo que "se você precisa insistir que venceu uma discussão na internet, é porque você provavelmente perdeu feio".Danth’s Law was most famously declared in “The Lenski Affair”, between microbiologist Richard Lenski and the editor of Conservapedia.com, Andrew Schlafly, who cast doubt upon Prof Lenski’s elegant experimental demonstration of evolution.
After what is widely held to be one of the greatest and most comprehensive put-downs in scientific argument from Prof Lenski, Mr Schlafly declared himself the winner.
Lei de Skitt
"Todo post criado para corrigir erros em outro post também contém um erro", prega a lei criada para criticar os defensores das regras gramaticais. Também pode significar que "a probabilidade de haver um erro em um post é diretamente proporcional ao constrangimento que ele causa".It is an online version of the proofreading truism Muphry’s Law, also known as Hartman's Law of Prescriptivist Retaliation: "any article or statement about correct grammar, punctuation, or spelling is bound to contain at least one error".
Language Log quotes the following example, from Paul Ordoveza’s How Now, Brownpau? blog:
"For too long, we linguistic pedants have cringed, watching this phrase used, misused, and abused, again, and again, and again. 'This begs the question...' [we hear], and we must brace ourselves as the ignoramii of modern society literally ask a question after the phrase."
While Mr Ordoveza’s point is entirely valid (“begging the question” is a logical fallacy, meaning to "beggar the question", or assume your conclusion in your premise – not to raise the question), the plural of ignoramus is ignoramuses.
It was apparently first stated by G Bryan Lord, referring to a user named Skitt, on Usenet in 1998.
Lei de Scopie
Criada para contemplar as discussões científicas em fóruns, esta lei afirma que "qualquer citação proveniente de fontes não confiáveis faz com que o argumento seja automaticamente eliminado".This law makes little sense without a background knowledge of Whale.to, a conspiracy theory site which includes such items as the complete text of the anti-Semitic hoax Protocols of the Elders of Zion, as well as claims that Aids is caused by vaccination programmes, and that Auschwitz never happened.
It has been expanded by posters on rationalwiki.com to include any use of Answers in Genesis in an argument about creationism and evolution.
Lei de Pommer
Bastante irônica, a lei afirma que "a opinião de uma pessoa pode mudar a partir do que ela lê na internet, saindo de nenhuma opinião para chegar em uma opinião errada".
Lei de DeMYER
São quatro, ao todo, mas a principal delas diz que "todo argumento composto basicamente de citações pode ser tranquilamente ignorado".The Second Law states: “Anyone who posts an argument on the internet which is largely quotations can be very safely ignored, and is deemed to have lost the argument before it has begun.”
The Zeroth, First and Third Laws cannot be very generally applied and will be glossed over here.
Lei de Cohen
A mais confusa, diz que "quem determina as regras que dizem que 'quem determina as regras perdeu a discussão', perdeu a discussão" - uma meta-lei.Has also been stated in the much longer version, "Whoever resorts to the argument that 'whoever resorts to the argument that... 'whoever resorts to the argument that... 'whoever resorts to the argument that... 'whoever resorts to the argument that ... 'whoever resorts to the argument that... ...has automatically lost the debate' ...has automatically lost the debate' ...has automatically lost the debate' ...has automatically lost the debate' ...has automatically lost the debate' has automatically lost the debate."
Lei da Exclamação
"Quanto maior o número de exclamações em uma mensagem, maor a chance dela ser mentira", diz a lei baseada em Discworld, obra do escritor Terry Pratchett.It is reminiscent of the claim in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels that the more exclamation marks someone uses in writing, the more likely they are to be mentally unbalanced.
According to Pratchett, five exclamation marks is an indicator of "someone who wears their underwear on the outside".
Publicado em 4/1/2010 no caderno LINK de O Estado de São Paulo.
Texto original: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/n ... o-Poe.html
