Re:78% of Reddit Threads with 1,000+ Comments Mention Nazis
by kazinator on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @02:23PM
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How can you be sure that an ad hominem attack or other inappropriate invocation of the Nazis doesn't take place in a history subreddit that is also chock full of legitimate references?
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Re:78% of Reddit Threads with 1,000+ Comments Mention Nazis
by stepanhruda on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @05:10PM
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Godwin's law doesn't talk about only ad hominem attacks though. It talks about comparing someone/something to nazis, most often it'll be related to the content the comments are on. Most of the content outside r/history is unlikely to be originally related to WWII. I would count a random mention of nazis under a trump article as Godwin's law.
Although, knowing reddit most of the comments are probably along the lines of "I did nazi that coming".
Source: I spend a lot of time on reddit