Goodwin's Law

Professor Ralph Goodwin, UofU, in 1982 noticed that newsgroup discussions which continued for a long time tended to degrade.

He postulated the following: As the length of a newsgroup thread grows, the probability approaches unity of some participant using the term "Hitler" or "Nazi". The party who first uses such terms is immediately declared the loser of the thread and discussion stops at that point.


Why   You   Are   Here   !

You were referred to this page as being a participant in such a newsgroup discussion.

Perhaps you ought to be ashamed.