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The best part is that now that it's been posted it has now become impossible to disagree, because attempting to disprove it would actually validate the law.

• darkmighty 13y ago
  Although funny, your logic is flawed. If you disproved this law globally, it wouldn't be necessary that this particular instance doesn't hold.
  • visakanv 13y ago
    How would you disprove the law, though?
    • shawnz 13y ago
      Find at least one example where it doesn't hold.
      • somethingnew 13y ago
        Yes, I believe that is the answer.
        • visakanv 13y ago
          Sounds legit. Can you think of any such example?
      • visakanv 13y ago
        I agree. Can you point us to one such example?
        • Uehreka 13y ago
          You're doing it wrong, asking a question won't work. By Cunningham's Law, you need to post a false example and wait for someone to correct it. If no one does so, the example stands, and you've successfully disproven Cunningham's Law using Cunningham's Law.
          • visakanv 13y ago
            ah, damnit!
• adrianmn 13y ago
  It's not impossible to disagree. Since they post it as absolutism it means this should work on all cases not just this one. There are a gazillion wrong answers on internet and no one bothers to fix them and give the right answer. Another way to disprove it is not the best way. Now that they told you this "secret" next time you have a question will you post a wrong answer or find the right place and try to formulate the question as best as you can?
  • philh 13y ago
    As long as we're being pedantic... It says the best (presumably "most effective") way to get the right answer is to post the wrong one. That doesn't mean that posting the wrong one will always work; it might be that if posting the wrong answer fails, there was no way to get the right answer, or that the successful ways would have been more effort than they were worth. (Obviously, this isn't true.) > Another way to disprove it is not the best way. Now that they told you this "secret" next time you have a question will you post a wrong answer or find the right place and try to formulate the question as best as you can? This doesn't disprove Cunningham's law, any more than people failing to wash their hands disproves germ theory. And even if Cunningham's law is true, posting the wrong answer in order to get the right one is rude.