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<blockquote data-quote="IRunWithScissors" data-source="post: 3173639" data-attributes="member: 95973">Ideally, the hilarity of the response should be proportional to the stupidity of the question.&nbsp; This is called Cosmic&#039;s First Law.&nbsp; (Provided all remains within the ToS, of course *mod hat back off again*)&nbsp; I.e. if someone asks a question about the supernatural and it&#039;s an intelligent question and it&#039;s clear they&#039;ve done some thinking about it then the responses should be respectful and intelligent.&nbsp; At the other end of the spectrum, if someone is asking about chi powers, homoeopathy, aliens, etc. in a way that makes it clear they&#039;ve done no thinking about it at all and are living in a fantasy world where one day they will be using chi blasts to knock over dudes in black suits then it&#039;s perfectly acceptable to set flamethrowers to &quot;crispy&quot; and bring some marshmallows.However, not everything goes as it should, what with humans being unpredictable.&nbsp; Sometimes people see a thread on the supernatural and the itchy trigger finger does a little twitch.&nbsp; Before they can stop themselves the poor poster and anyone else near them is running around on MAP soaked in petrol and desperately trying to put themselves out.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="IRunWithScissors, post: 3173639, member: 95973"] Ideally, the hilarity of the response should be proportional to the stupidity of the question. This is called Cosmic's First Law. (Provided all remains within the ToS, of course *mod hat back off again*) I.e. if someone asks a question about the supernatural and it's an intelligent question and it's clear they've done some thinking about it then the responses should be respectful and intelligent. At the other end of the spectrum, if someone is asking about chi powers, homoeopathy, aliens, etc. in a way that makes it clear they've done no thinking about it at all and are living in a fantasy world where one day they will be using chi blasts to knock over dudes in black suits then it's perfectly acceptable to set flamethrowers to "crispy" and bring some marshmallows. However, not everything goes as it should, what with humans being unpredictable. Sometimes people see a thread on the supernatural and the itchy trigger finger does a little twitch. Before they can stop themselves the poor poster and anyone else near them is running around on MAP soaked in petrol and desperately trying to put themselves out. [/QUOTE]

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