Georgie Boy

[brianwspencer]

Originally Posted by SCUDSBROTHER

Friends with the site owner...What do you expect? He can pretty much say anything to people......You're exactly right,though.....Says Yankee Bravo(who has never run a bad race) stinks,and then he wants people to overlook bad races by horses he likes(or bad races from horses trained by people he likes.) Unbelievable arrogance,actually,but that's the way it is.

I got it. It all makes sense now. This tired meme is quickly becoming the Derby Trail version of Godwin's Law on the internet in general.

Our version (I'll affectionately term it Scud's Law) would go something like this:

As a discussion on Derby Trail grows longer, the probability of a poster claiming that another poster receives special treatment from the site owner ,when no such special treatment exists, approaches one.

Scud's Law is generally applied in disagreements between two or more posters. These disagreements are usually understood by the greater community to be won by the poster(s) who apply the most logic and reasoning to back up their views. Scud's Law tends to become relevant when the poster who has lost the argument on the basis of logic and reasoning states the the argument's victors are only allowed to say what they say (e.g., "win the argument") because Steve Byk personally allows them unchecked reign over the message board. This sort of fallacious argument is the backbone of Scud's Law.

It is well understood that if the argument has yet to be won, the poster who first invokes Scud's Law immediately loses the argument by default, regardless of their view's merit.