DH111's Rule 17b

If a person were to exist, this person would know this rule in due course, no matter how ridiculous it sounds. And then it passes through generations until eventually it gets forgotten and discarded.

Father: Hey, have you read DH111's Rule 17b yet?
Jimmy: No, I don't wanna Dad!
Father: Do you wish not to be happy, knowing DH111 is protecting you?!
Jimmy: Okay, okay! Jeez...

by DH111 June 25, 2024

Kelly’s Rule of Inquiry

If you ask the top people for their opinions first, you won’t get effective advice from the people below them.

A group of people can be asked to make a decision and will march off in a direction they never would have taken by themselves.

When doctors are preparing to perform brain surgery on your wife, pull the top surgeons and physicians into a breakroom with residents and other medical staff and ask the people on the lowest rungs of the profession for their opinions on the surgery first.

Source: Astronaut Mark Kelly, husband of former Arizona Congresswoman Gabby Giffords, in 2014 at the annual Visitor Industry Luncheon at the Sioux Falls Convention Center
“I learned you do not want to ask the space shuttle commander, the flight director, the chief engineer or program manager his opinion first. If you do, you don’t get effective advice from the people below them.”

At Los Alamos, visitors Niels Bohr and brother Harald obeyed Kelly’s Rule of Inquiry by running their ideas on the current work by Richard Feynman before asking anyone higher up.

by WhatwasIsaying January 25, 2025

Bauer's Rule of Idiocracy

Of greater danger than nobody knowing what to do is a broadly held presumption that somebody does.

Source: “‘Idiocracy’ is a disturbingly prescient reflection of our current reality, not because nobody knows anything but because everybody thinks somebody does." ~ Jared Bauer

Bauer's Rule of Idiocracy arises in part from characteristics discussed in Erich Fromm’s “Escape From Freedom,” including a desire to defer to a trusted figure to escape the burden of having to puzzle out matters for which one is ill-equipped, the learning curve is steep, or information is at best incomplete.

by WhatwasIsaying January 25, 2025

Dyer’s Rule of Nutrition

Jay Dyer’s Rule of Nutrition states that you should never eat anything that has cartoon characters on its package. Basically, processed junk food.

Dyer’s Rule of Nutrition would rule out:
>Cocoa Pebbles
>M&Ms
>Cheetos
>Flintstones Gummies
>Count Chocula
>Lunchly

by Shepherd Guy June 27, 2025

Rowe's Rule

"If you don't know, don't babble."

Please observe Rowe's Rule to avoid wasting everybody's time.

by Ed Cox October 21, 2025

Teranen’s rule

Teranen’s rule (named after Finnish furry artist teranen, who attempted to strictly put his nsfw artwork under a paywall but failed) is an internet rule which says “No matter how hard someone puts something under a paywall, the internet will eventually & inevitably leak it w/ little to no exceptions”. in other words, it means it’s almost impossible to keep in exclusive content under a paywall w/o it getting leaked on the internet.

“Belle Delphine & Sophie Rain are a few of the many people who have been a victim of Teranen’s rule”

by Startupedition November 27, 2025

Boy Scout Rule of D's

After seeing a man's penis, in order to restore order of to the universe you must show that man your penis.

Adam: You gotta show that man your dick back to restore order to the universe man! Boy Scout Rule of D's!

by MonkeyHelmet May 17, 2011