BackSet

BackSet

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    • The Litmus of Utter Simplicity: In a thread devoted to a work or genre of fiction, CTRL+F for the words "simply" and "utter". If both appear on the same page, then a significant portion of the user-base believes all the characters, insane evil clowns and impulsive twelve-year-olds included, should employ flawless strategy at all times. Ignore them if you want to enjoy anything.
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    • The Law of Unbreakable Stereotyping: As the fandom of a widely popular show continues to exist, the odds of someone accusing the show of being completely generic approaches 1. For example, the longer My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic remains popular, the more inevitable it becomes that someone will label the show as "just another children's show".
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    • Memetic Bash Law: In unmoderated forums, whatever is the newest and most popular will be mercilessly bashed at every possible opportunity, such as Justin Bieber. You will see comments like: "This is real music, unlike Justin Bieber". Alternatively, people will start complaining about people doing this, even if nobody has yet, managing to be just as annoying as the original complainers.
      • Bashing Bandwagon Corollary: At least half of the participants will not have heard the target being bashed, and at least a quarter would not have heard of the target were it not for the relentless bashing.
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    • Inherent Savagery Postulate:
      • When a previously unregulated community starts enforcing positive posts, this means it has begun its decline. If it elects to enforce negativity instead, it can burn like a merry hell-pit for years on end.
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    • Law of Inverse Enforcement:
      • The more a community complains about the rules imposed by the site, the more vehemently they will insist everyone adheres to their informal rules.
      • Legal Corollary: Any community whose purpose is inherently illegal (ie- file sharing) will border on totalitarianism with regards to enforcing its own rules.
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    • Forum Creator Existence: If the person who created the forum leaves and gives the position to someone else, most of the time the forum will become inactive, end up closing or become a spam filled wasteland filled with trolls and flame wars.
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    • Anchor Law: A forum has to be founded for a reason. It could be for people who live in your general area, Joseph Merrick enthusiasts, or even rebellion from an already-popular forum. It could be, and most often is, one tiny subforum that people drift away from as they become seasoned users. But if one founds a forum for people to talk about anything and everything, it will be lucky to last a month.
      • Forums attached to popular sites will usually have dozens of subforums for every interest under the sun. Most of them will remain empty because users will have participated in the same discussions on other forums and will not feel like repeating everything they said on each and every site they join.
      • Also, expect that when this type of forum stays open for a long time, 90% of the posts in any given category will be troll posts.
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    The Unfortunate Law of Wiki Humor:
    • On a publically editable site, if a joke is absolutely perfect in every way, it will inevitably be outright removed, or edited into an imperfect joke. The only way to prevent this phenomenon is to lock the page.
    • The more prominent a joke is (at the very top of a popular page, for example), the more likely someone will read the joke and simply not get it, compelling them to replace it with their own which they think is actually funny.
    • Some users may like the joke too much and add more of the same making the joke less sharp and snappy. This repeats until the joke is finally driven into the mud and promptly killed by another user.
    • It is also likely to be read by a cranky admin or user who believes the site is "Serious Business", and will be removed on the basis that humor is inappropriate for that particular page.
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    • The more awesome a joke is, the more likely it appeals specifically to a particular sense of humor, and so the more likely it will bother or offend someone who does not share that sense of humor.
    • It is also likely that someone will like the joke but will find it too cryptic, and will remove its subtlety, which will lead to the evoking of the previous points by users who previously did not notice the joke there.
    • It is also common that the users could simply grow bored with the joke, in all its perfection, and simply change it to something they find more fresh.
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    Smile! But Not Too Much!: In any forum that has emoticons beyond the default ones provided by the site, they will usually be:
    • rips or custom sprites made specifically for the series
    • recolors or restyles of the defaults to either fit the theme or provide a new set
    • random animations or sprites found on the internet that may or may not have been stolen from a nearby adoptable site
    • in-jokes that seem nonsensical to the newbie, which every user is expected to get no matter how recently they signed up.
    • may sometimes include animations seen hundreds of times on several other videos, websites and so forth that may be so big it's pretty clear they weren't meant to be smileys.
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    Kaerri
    Kaerri
    We have custom smileys ^;3^
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    I once showed them to some friends on another site (I copy and pasted them because I couldn't think of a good reaction) and they dissed them.
    Kaerri
    Kaerri
    Boo >.> Silly people.
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    • April First Is The Worst Law:
      • Webmasters tend to love April Fools' Day much, much more than the average user. Average users tend to get exceptionally bitter, even to the point of death threats, over online April Fools pranks.
      • Corollary: Any news article or announcement released within a week of April 1st will be met with extreme skepticism, lest it be yet another April Fool's Day prank.
      • Second Corollary: As the number of users posting April Fool's Day jokes increases, so does the number of moderator retaliations. Naturally, mods and admins posting their own jokes are exempt from this.
      • Third Corollary: None of this will be cleaned up on April 2nd, and forum searches will be disproportionately likely to dig up joke threads.
    This is a callout post for Bulbagarden.
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    • The Nostalgia Filter Theory: Chances are, if a thread is started about some sort of media made after the average forum member's childhood, it will eventually devolve into, "Back in the day we had real shows, not this crap they have now." The same philosophy will always be applied to any news story. If there is a story about youth doing something bad and the average age is over 20, expect half the posts to be "All I did when I was little was play Pokemon and watch Power Rangers.
    This is because, due to working soul sucking jobs to pay off college debt, you are incapable of actually enjoying things anymore.
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    • The "Get Off My Lawn" Rule: The older the average age of the forum members, the more likely it is that any young person (i.e under the age of 25) will not be able to comment on anything without being dismissed as a "noob" or a "youngster".
    This is an old person callout post.
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    • The Justice Rust Theory: The smaller the userbase of a forum, the less the board's nonstandard special features (reputation, merits, etc) will be used.
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    • Signature Decay: As a user gets older (and hopefully more mature), the amount of images, titles and quotes in their signature and profile will decrease.
    So, should I feel complemented or insulted.
    LegoLad659
    LegoLad659
    Yes.
    Kaerri
    Kaerri
    I don't think mine has changed since I got here except when I added links for site stuff after becoming staff >.>
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    • Second Law of Forum Necromancy: If a poster decides to start a new topic with the same subject rather than dig up an old topic, the first response will typically be a link to the old thread and/or an exhortation to "use the search button". Also see the Search Button Paradox rule.
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    • First Law of Forum Necromancy: 50% of attempts at Thread Necromancywill result in a stillborn topic that sinks to the bottom of the forum like a lead stone. The other 50% usually reignite the Flame War that killed the topic the last time. Either way, the chances of rekindling a meaningful discussion from a raised thread are very slim.
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    • Thread Resuscitation Rule: If a thread has more than two replies in a row by the same poster (and it's not a double post or posted within a couple of hours of each other), then the topic is officially dead, and no amount of bumping can revive it. It's best to abandon it to the graveyard of the forum archives.
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    • 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.
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    • Blakeyrat's Law: Any discussion of an ad will quickly devolve into a discussion of the use and/or morality of ad-blockers.
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    Hell Hath No Trollbait: Never complain that a person has just callously spoiled a plotline where novices can see it. Trolls will flock in from all the forum, unleashing several missile salvos' worth of game-changing spoilers for everything from Citizen Kane to the eighth Harry Potter book.
    • First Corollary: Most of these spoilers will be true.
    • Application Paradox: Unless you are deliberately doing this in order to invoke the effect and get the entire plot for free. In that c
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    • The "Information Wants to be Free" Paradox: On the official forums for any work, the harder the staff tries to censor spoilers and/or secrets, the easier it will be to find the same information on a fansite.
      • This is a corollary to the Streisand Effect, a law of the internet which states that the more effort is put into removing information from the internet, the more attention is called to that information, and the further it will spread.
      • Corollary: The most efficient way to keep a spoiler or secret hidden is to just ask nicely once, within the spoilery section of the work itself if possible.
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    • The Law of Cherry Picking: If a user posts his or her side of an argument, and a number of other users try to refute it with well-thought-out posts and cited sources, the original user will only respond to the easiest replies to argue with, ignoring all of the others.
      • Corollary: If a posts demands a source for a claim, and a source is produced, the next post invariably attacks the credibility of that source. Usually, this is solely on the basis that the source of a specific argument they disagree with also happens to disagree with the poster in general.
      • Corollary: No matter how many sources a post cites, someone is still bound to think they know better than the original poster based entirely on the fact that the original poster has a view different from their own.
      • Corollary: If a user says "call me X, but..." in a post, as the number of direct replies to that post increases, the odds approach one that one of those replies will consist of "You're X." and contribute absolutely nothing useful whatsoever, yet the poster of that reply will still somehow think that completely refutes the original post's argument.
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    • Conservation of Intelligence: For a well-thought-out post, the longer it is and the more sources it cites, the more likely replies to it will consist of only one sentence that dismisses the entire argument through use of a straw manand/or logical fallacy, usually both.
      • Real life application of the Law of One.
      • The Storm Shelter Corollary: Waiting until the initial wave of pointless replies passes by and then bumping the thread is a recipe for success.
      • The "OK" Corollary: If two consecutive troll replies in a thread are exactly the same, every subsequent reply will be exactly the same as well as people flock to the bandwagon. Once this happens, the thread is impossible to salvage, but a new forum meme may emerge.
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    • Harkster's Law of Logical Backfire: If a logical pattern or law is proven and defined as true, the law will more often be cited in support of ambiguous statements or falsehoods which appear to resemble the pattern, than it will be cited in support of the truths which it actually defines.
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    • +b Coherency: The topic of every chatroom, regardless of the site it is affiliated with, is randomness. Anyone who attempts to start a meaningful conversation will be disregarded or scorned for going off-topic.
      • If two or more users attempt to start a meaningful conversation of any sort during a session of randomness, they will be directed to take their discussion somewhere private.
      • If the site has multiple affiliated chatrooms, with one "general" chatroom and the rest dedicated to special topics or on-topic conversations, the "general" room will be devoted to randomness and all chatter will take place there, while the other rooms will remain mostly silent and/or empty.
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