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[[The Grand List of Forum
For the record, the actual rules of every community and forum on the internet pretty much boil down to 'Don't be a dick' and/or 'Don't piss off the mods'.<ref>This site's rules are exceedingly simple: Fun will be had. Boorishness and Dickery will not be tolerated. Mutual respect among the posters is expected. Vandalism of the wiki will get you banned
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* '''The Reverse Boomerang Law:''' If a user comes back after an extended hiatus from a forum with a lengthy "I'm back" post, the user will almost certainly leave immediately again. The length of the post is directly proportional to their likelihood of disappearing forever—this is because, the more promises the user makes in this post, the more they will feel ashamed of them and wish to run away from them forever. See also the ''Nail in the Coffin Law''.
* '''Unused Equipment Request Procedure''': If announcing on a [[Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game|MMORPG]] forum that they are leaving the game, especially in anger, there will be at least one response of '[[If You Die, I Call Your Stuff|can I have your stuff]]?'. Also, they will never actually quit.
* '''The Internship Principle:''' The longer a community-driven site exists, the less welcoming (and interesting) it becomes for new members to get involved with. As a community accumulates its own backlog of history, rules (both written and unwritten), members and their respective reputations, and inside jokes, the more new members are expected to conform to the already-existing community environment rather than bringing their own ideas to the table, and the less likely new members will be willing to accept the tradeoff between obligation and fun.
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** '''Third Corollary:''' Unless the forum is based on a related topic (e.g. physics, nuclear physics, science in general), the less a user knows about physics, the more likely they are to start such a thread.
* '''[https://web.archive.org/web/20170223144117/http://www.badscience.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=5240&p=90463*p90279 Scopie's Law]:'''
** In any discussion involving science or medicine, citing Whale.to as a credible source loses you the argument immediately.
** Corollary: Doing so gets you laughed out of the room.
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