If you've participated in usenet, mailing lists, or web forum discussions for any length of time, you're probably familiar with Godwin's law:
This is a companion discussion topic for the original blog entry at: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2005/11/which-online-discussion-archetype-are-you.html
mike207
2
And all of these archetypes are so … unpleasant.
Well, so are most people. What’s your point?
Jason Scott has his own take on forum archetypes here:
http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1046
MartyT
5
Definitely an archivist here. Not so much that I store discussions locally, but I can usually dig them up.