What is "The most important rule on the message boards"?

[Joshua Goudreau]

TWO MEN ENTER, ONE MAN LEAVES!

[Immortal Greed]

knightnday wrote:

Always use the term straw man in every thread, just in case. It is trying to beat Godwin's Law in an internet race!

Urgh, I know. The overuse of this term, a few years ago it is suddenly as if everyone thinks they took rhetoric 101, and can only remember the strawman fallacy.

[pres man]

StrawHitlers! I win!

[Snorter]

Pan wrote:

Never use the search function just make a new thread.

But if you find an old thread already exists on the subject, don't dare add to it, or be accused of thread necromancy.

[Snorter]

knightnday wrote:

Always use the term straw man in every thread, just in case. It is trying to beat Godwin's Law in an internet race!

Immortal Greed wrote:

Urgh, I know. The overuse of this term, a few years ago it is suddenly as if everyone thinks they took rhetoric 101, and can only remember the strawman fallacy.

What if the thread is actually about straw men?

As in 'How does one construct a scarecrow golem?'.

As with Godwin's Law, sometimes the 'derailment' is actually on-topic and relevant.

[Sissyl]

The first rule of the Paizo messageboards is the first rule of the Paizo messageboards.

[PathlessBeth]

Douglas Adams wrote:

The winning team shall be the first team that wins.

It applies to forum arguments as well.

[TheAntiElite]

34.

Which summons Chris.

NO EXCEPTIONS.

[Tirisfal]

Be kind, please rewind.

[Tacticslion]

Tirisfal wrote:

Be kind, please rewind.

I wonder how much longer that's going to make sense to adults.

It's kind of amazing, really.

[Lincoln Hills]

Snorter wrote:

...As with Godwin's Law, sometimes the 'derailment' is actually on-topic and relevant.

For instance, if I create a simulacrum of Adolf Hitler, is he only 50% bagful-of-cats crazy?

Note: This is purely an example to prove that Godwin's Law can be on-topic and relevant. I have neither the technology nor the abnormal psyche necessary to clone Hitler.

[Set]

Snorter wrote:

What if the thread is actually about straw men?

As in 'How does one construct a scarecrow golem?'.

As with Godwin's Law, sometimes the 'derailment' is actually on-topic and relevant.

See, now we need an adventure involving a crazy Chelish racist (hates elves, halflings, tieflings, other folk Cheliax considers sub-human) who is creating scarecrow men to sneak around and throttle members of the races he hates. So he's basically a Nazi who makes straw men!

Bonus points if he's got a troll bodyguard in his subterranean lair.

Somehow paladins and katana need to get all up in this...

[Immortal Greed]

Would run that adventure.

[Immortal Greed]

Even better if the Chelish racist is not actually from Cheliax. Turns out he is from Nidal.

[Tacticslion]

Immortal Greed wrote:

Even better if the Chelish racist is not actually from Cheliax. Turns out he is from Nidal.

And/or is a fetchling or something similar who fetishizes Cheliaxian humanity. Even more bonus points if it's ambiguous if he has, say, elf-blood in his ancestry or something similar.

[Immortal Greed]

Maybe Gnome blood?

[Dangleberry Tagnut]

Not with that terrible hair.

[baalbamoth]

Be a jerk,
WIN
Summon Lambert.

Change your login and IP.

Rinse repeat.

[ciretose]

Vincent Takeda wrote:

Other people play differently than you... That doesn't make them right.

And being right is more important than being happy...

[ciretose]

Joshua Goudreau wrote:

TWO MEN ENTER, ONE MAN LEAVES!

Two girls enter, one cup...

[Ellis Mirari]

Never bring up real-world religions.

Oh wait...

[The 8th Dwarf]

Monty Python: The Argument Clinic: Director's Cut..... All your arguments are now invalid.

[Shadowborn]

dave.gillam wrote:

OK. Im curious. What does My Little Pony, Pathfinder Edition look like?

And how can we beg an expansion set from the Paizo Gods?

You just had to ask, didn't you?

[dave.gillam]

My old CO'c rule

if you have to ask, you dont want to know.
(most commonly heard just outside the chowhall before diner)