r/poeslawinaction

411 archived posts · Mar 2014 – Apr 2020

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r/poeslawinaction

"Without a blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of extremism or fundamentalism that someone won't mistake for the real thing." - Nathan Poe

Created Mar 7, 2014 · restricted

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Poe's law, named after its author Nathan Poe, is an Internet adage reflecting the idea that without a clear indication of the author's intent, it is difficult or impossible to tell the difference between an expression of sincere extremism and a parody of extremism.

[Wikipedia]

Yet another bastard child of r/TumblrInAction, Poe's Law in action is dedicated to those moments of insanity indistinguishable from outright trolling.

The Rules


Do not harass the people that get posted here	Don't be massive twats. Contacting the people that get posted here is against the rules and may result in you being banned. And so will voting or commenting in linked reddit threads.


Do not post any personal information	Do not post personal information comments and submissions containing personal information will be removed.


Zero tolarance on hate speech and slurs	This includes: Racism, Sexism, Homophobia and Transphobia.


Keep it civil in the comment-section	Harassing or excessively rude comments will be removed at the mods discretion. Repeat offenders will be banned.


If you link to a reddit thread, use the No Participation Domain	To use the No Participation domain change the link from http://www.reddit.com/ to http://np.reddit.com/ Links to reddit that do not use the NP-domain will be removed.


No posts that you are personally involved in	If something you're involved in winds up posted here, it's fine to comment here. But don't link it yourself.


NSFW material must be marked as such	I don't think this needs any explanation

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