<blockquote>This happened on May 4 when it was announced that "CuriousGnu" – a blogger who shares with me an ongoing curiosity about numbers and statistical data –had blogged that "78% of Reddit Threads With 1000+ Comments Mention Nazis".</blockquote>
via <a href="http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/when-i-created-godwins-law-1990-it-wasnt-prediction-it-was-warning-1562126">I created Godwin's Law in 1990, but it wasn't a prediction - it was a warning</a>.
<blockquote>But the fact is, I designed Godwin's Law not to be predictive, but to be "memetic" — not to show that debates would invariably become overheated but to spur debaters to invoke history mindfully, with deeper analysis rather than with glib allusion, because that's the way for a speaker or writer to show that he or she is not taking the easy rhetorical path.</blockquote>