History JustForFun / TheGrandListOfForumAndCommunityLaws

* '''Exception:''' Discussion about video game ads have a 50% chance to instead devolve to discussion about mobile game ads.

* '''Corollary to Blakeyrat's Law:''' During the discussion of ad-blockers, somebody will invariably reply, "oh, this site has ads? I've never seen them", in the most condescending way possible.

* '''Law of Reverse Irony Perception:''' When posting a Sarcastic or Ironic post the amount of people who recognise the Sarcasm is inverselly proportional to the amount of Emoticons used.

** Escapist's Generalization: This troll will target any thread in the forum, including off-topic ones completely unrelated to the work the forum is based around.
** Corollary - If and when this poster ''does'' break a rule, it will more often than not lead to them being immediately banned for among the flimsiest reasons that other members typically get slapped with a warning, at most, had they done the same.

* '''The Me Too Guy:''' On every forum, there is at least one user who feels they don't fit in with the community, and will constantly refer to this fact by referring to themselves in most of their posts, qualifying every post as an opinion, apologizing profusely for other posts or actions, and eventually attempting to start a "Why does everyone hate me" thread. It is usually the case that this person would fit in just fine if it weren't for all of their desperate attempts to fit in. This user is especially prone to other laws such as the '''Boomerang Law''', the '''Name Change Cascade''', the '''Lock Picking Theorem''', and the '''Illusions of Grandeur Principle'''.

* '''Lock Picking Theorem:'''

* '''The LawOfWikiExpansion Corollary:''' As a specialist website/forum gains more pages for general stuff, more people will use the website for purposes other than what it was set up to do/discuss.

* '''The Laugh Out Loud Rule:''' 50% of users who end their sentences in "lol" are doing so condescendingly. The other 50% are completely genuine. It is, unfortunately, very difficult to distinguish between these two groups.

** '''The VideoGame/Undertale Corollary:''' The more people praise a certain media, there will be more people who hate it for the sake of hating it or because it is over-praised. This does not mean that everyone who hates said game falls under this law. This is also a corollary of the Law of Debate Equity.

* '''[[VisualNovel/KatawaShoujo Tezuka]]'s Law''' Approximately 25% of people in the Internet has a "problem in [their] pants", and act lewdly.

* '''Law of Fallacious Reversal''' Most of the time "no u" or variations of it are used as a serious argument, they are fallacious due to being a tu quoque (appeal to hypocrisy) and/or ad hominem (personal attack) argument.

* '''[[VisualNovels/KatawaShoujo Tezuka]]'s Law''' Approximately 25% of people in the Internet has a "problem in [their] pants", and act lewdly.

* '''CAD's Theorem of Topic Closure:''' A clear, well thought-out, well-written post is less likely to receive a reply than a poor post, because it leaves less to be said. The post may even appear to bring the conversation to a screeching halt. However, if it is a topic written by a member of [[ForumPeckingOrder the Old Guard]], it is likely to be enshrined in legend. Any replies to it, mind, are likely to be completely ignored. Also see: [[ForumSpeak Implonkus]]

** Members can bully those in a lower tier on the ForumPeckingOrder and see little to no punishment for it. But if a lower-ranked guy so much as criticizes someone in a higher caste, they're looking at anywhere from a public verbal whipping by the mods to being banned outright.

* '''The Shared-name Overshadow Rule:''' If there are two characters from two different series with the same name, one will be massively more well known (aka have more images on Deviantart/Google images then the other. For example: Scourge the cat from ''Literature/WarriorCats'' and Scourge the hedgehog from ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'') (See OneMarioLimit).

* '''"[[UsefulNotes/FirstPost FIRST POST!]]":'''

* '''CAD's Theorem of Topic Closure:''' A clear, well thought-out, well-written post is less likely to receive a reply than a poor post, because it leaves less to be said. The post may even appear to bring the conversation to a screeching halt. However, if it is a topic written by a member of [[ForumPeckingOrder the Old Guard]], it is likely to be enshrined in legend. Any replies to it, mind, are likely to be completely ignored. Also see: {{Implonkus}}

** '''TheShepherd Exception:''' Communities with a sufficiently high ratio of [[TheShepherd Shepherds]] to other members are exempt from this caste system.

* '''First Law of Forum Necromancy:''' 50% of attempts at ThreadNecromancy will result in a stillborn topic that sinks to the bottom of the forum like a lead stone. The other 50% usually reignite the FlameWar that killed the topic the last time. Either way, the chances of rekindling a meaningful discussion from a raised thread are very slim.

* '''[[VideoGame/{{Touhou}} Okuu's]] Law:'''

** Any forum not specifically aimed at an intelligent audience will inevitably attract some loud-mouthed, poorly-informed idiots who make [[VideoGame/{{Touhou}} Cirno]] look smart. Any forum which ''is'' specifically aimed at an intelligent audience will inevitably attract some arrogant, pretentious, and egotistical snobs who make [[Series/TheBigBangTheory Sheldon Cooper]] seem downright humble. Either way, there's no avoiding them completely.

* '''Wikipedia Inaccuracy Defense:''' If a user disproves another user by linking a Wikipedia article, the user being disproved will inevitably try to invalidate the disproval by saying that Wikipedia is almost never accurate and a bad source, ignoring the fact that Wikipedia has a very active and fact-check happy userbase who are quick to clean up messess.

* '''Law of Reverse Irony Perception:''' When posting a Sacrastic or Ironic post the amount of people who recognise the Sarcasm is inverselly proportional to the amount of Emoticons used.

* '''The Sycophant Law:''' Everyone always agrees with the forum owner.