Obvious Troll is a widely accepted term describing a forum contributor who contributes with very obvious posts or asks questions for which there are only obvious answers. Obvious troll posts are a subject to flames or flame wars on forums.
A: d(o.o)b
OT: How do you get the backwards "b"
A: it is called a "d"
X: OT, that was such an obvious troll question
OT: How do you get the backwards "b"
A: it is called a "d"
X: OT, that was such an obvious troll question
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The favorite word of mathematicians and computer scientists alike. Used when they don't want to go into detail about a component of their paper or proof. Sometimes acts to discourage people from asking unwanted questions by making them feel stupid.
"While the Binary Indexed Tree is a data structure designed to implement dynamic cumulative frequency tables, efficiently answering range queries with point updates, given a static array, it is obvious that this is unnecessary, as the table can easily be generated by processing the array using a simple O(n) loop." -A Computer Scientist
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Joe: Thank you, Captain Obvious and the World of Yesterday.
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Note: Not to be confused with someone who's obviously blind
Note: Not to be confused with someone who's obviously blind
Foolish guy: "How the hell did you miss that? It was so obvious!"
Cool, wise guy: "Yes, blindingly obvious"
Cool, wise guy: "Yes, blindingly obvious"
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