re: #9 ausador

We need to develop a new “internet law” like Godwin’s that explains for every 50 extremeist posts you read there is really only one physically fit and possibly dangerous poster. The rest are overweight couch potatoes who can’t even walk up to their bedroom without getting winded or 13 year old boys trying to seem tough.

Hrm.. While I like this idea, I think an even better law would be some mathematical formula for sussing out how many real people are behind a set amount of comments, what with the popularity of sockpuppets.
Something like:
Ronulan Invasion: 100 comments to 1 poster.
PZ Meyers Poll Boost: 5 votes to 1 voter.
Forum for MPD: 1 comment to 2 posters.

re: #10 Areozol

Indeed, it sounds very familiar. I’m wondering if it’s more a sign of how credulous people propagate their fiction? All those entries on Snopes had to pass through a number of people willing to suspend disbelief at some point, right? ;)
(Of course, that would indicate that the original yarnspinners are predominately American..)