How is babby formed?I didn't fully understand what it was all about so I started googling.
First the
Encyclopedia Dramatica:
How is babby formed?' is a classic Something Awful meme derived from the cesspit of stupidity that is Yahoo! Answers.
Then on to
Shamus Young's blog to discover:
There were several informed responses to this question with links to relevant articles. But they were modded down as “unhelpful”. Instead, the [most ludicrous] response was rated as “best answer”
and
And other places are like YouTube or Yahoo! Answers - the sewer system of the internet, where likely as not you’ll drown in a septic tidal wave of idiocy and spam.
Shamus Young goes on to describe his theory of IPT or Idiots Per Thousand saturation.
Some of the problem is scale: The bigger the community the more idiots you’re bound to have. There is some ambient level of morons that you just can’t get rid of. If you think of idiots as a contaminant, then it may be useful measure them as a portion of the whole. Say: Idiots Per Thousand. The IPT of any given site can’t go below a certain base value: The level of background idiocy on the internet. But idiots have a tendency to drive normal people away if they are allowed to run unchecked, thus increasing the saturation of IPT.
Oh boy, this is beginning to sound like another site we all know well... he he
