# What is Gaudere's Law **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [December 2, 2002, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-gauderes-law/140008 "2002-12-02T18:44:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![cainxinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7bcc69/32.png) [@cainxinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cainxinth)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2002, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-gauderes-law/140008/1 "2002-12-02T18:44:20Z")
I hear people accused of it from time to time (myself included). What exactly is it? ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2002, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-gauderes-law/140008/2 "2002-12-02T19:06:23Z")
**Gaudere’s Law:** > [@](#): > > Any post that attempts to correct another poster’s mistake in grammar, spelling or punctuation will itself contain a mistake in grammar, spelling or punctuation. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2002, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-gauderes-law/140008/3 "2002-12-02T19:07:30Z")
I don’t know where the original thread is, but I understand it means if you post to criticise someone else’s grammar/spelling/punctuation, you will inadvertantly include a similar grammar/spelling/punctuation error in your own post. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2002, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-gauderes-law/140008/4 "2002-12-02T19:08:53Z")
Dude, I’m hot! ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2002, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-gauderes-law/140008/5 "2002-12-02T19:09:13Z")
Or did you mean _Godwin’s Law_? ---
**Author:** ![cainxinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7bcc69/32.png) [@cainxinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cainxinth)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2002, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-gauderes-law/140008/6 "2002-12-02T20:26:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Michael Ellis \* > \*\*Or did you mean _Godwin’s Law_? \*\* Nope it was Gaudere all right, thanks for the answer. But just out of curiosity what is Godwin’s law? ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2002, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-gauderes-law/140008/7 "2002-12-02T20:43:11Z")
[Godwin’s Law](http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/Godwin's-Law.html) > [@](#): > > “As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.” _FIXED URL - UB Okay, so I didn’t fix the URL. I’m stumped, too._ ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2002, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-gauderes-law/140008/8 "2002-12-02T20:48:19Z")
Hey, what happened to my URL? I didn’t do anything wrong. Or was it the apostrophe that screwed it up? ---
**Author:** ![cainxinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7bcc69/32.png) [@cainxinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cainxinth)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2002, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-gauderes-law/140008/9 "2002-12-02T20:58:45Z")
haha, I think I’ve been accused of that as well. ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2002, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-gauderes-law/140008/10 "2002-12-02T21:15:41Z")
[http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/Godwin’s-Law.html](http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/Godwin's-Law.html) Yeah, it’s the apostrophe that’s keeping it from making a link. Copy and Paste it from the Address window, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2002, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-gauderes-law/140008/11 "2002-12-02T22:46:09Z")
[http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/Godwin's-Law.html](http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/Godwin%27s-Law.html) ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2002, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-gauderes-law/140008/12 "2002-12-02T22:46:54Z")
When a character creates a problem for link parsing, replace the offending character with a % sign followed by its ASCII value. e.g. replace a single quote with %27. ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-gauderes-law/140008/13 "2002-12-03T09:11:34Z")
Which came first? Gaudere the mod, or Gaudere the Law? ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-gauderes-law/140008/14 "2002-12-03T16:22:41Z")
Gaudere’s Law – she was a member of _hoi posterloi_ when she observed it, being promoted to Moderator and then Administrator somewhat later. Next week on this thread: proof that the egg preceded the chicken! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-gauderes-law/140008/15 "2002-12-04T22:23:12Z")
You can also take the url and paste it into the form at [www.tinyurl.com](http://www.tinyurl.com) and post the resultant tiny url. In this case, the new url becomes: [http://tinyurl.com/38eu](http://tinyurl.com/38eu) ---
**Author:** ![Blackeyes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f6c823/32.png) [@Blackeyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackeyes)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-gauderes-law/140008/16 "2002-12-06T01:18:43Z")
And the week after that, the end to the Orange the color vs. Orange the fruit debate! Okay, so it’ll be solved today: [What came first, orange or oranges?](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_344a.html) :o