Foos Law

As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of the statement 'foo' occurring, halting useful discussion, approaches one, where 'foo' is some MemeticAphorism.

FoosLaw was inspired by, and is a generalization of, GodwinsLaw.

Some special cases:

• foo == "a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler": GodwinsLaw
• foo == "a reference to 9/11" (NineEleven) : GodwinsSecondLaw
• foo == "GodwinsLaw" (related to Miller's Paradox, Quirk's Exception; see below)
• foo == "commie" or "communism"
• foo == "terrorism" or "Osama bin Laden": related to GodwinsSecondLaw

I couldn't put this in the same list:

• foo == "YouArentGonnaNeedIt"

First articulated by TimLesher.

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These used to appear in the wikipedia article on Godwin's Law but were purged:

Quirk's exception: Intentional invocation of this so-called "Nazi Clause" is ineffectual.

Miller's paradox: As a network evolves, the number of Nazi comparisons not forestalled by citation to Godwin's law converges to zero.

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See GodwinsLaw, QuotingNotThinking, LaynesLaw.