#2: Nov 21st 2010 at 8:56:20 PM
The use of the actual phrase "self-explanatory" was largely confined to ykttw at the height of the epidemic, back in 2007. See the archived discussion for the Southies article.
The fact that you haven't encountered any "self-explanatory" shenanigans suggests that Not Self Explanatory did its job quite well.
Sorry I don't have anything to say on the actual topic.
edited 21st Nov '10 8:57:05 PM by MetaFour
Total posts: 2

It's an idea Some Guy had on the X Just X page: have them (X Just X, One Word) all on one page because they have the same root problem, same root cause. He was going for something broader and bigger such as Potholing Policy but "policy"...yuck.
Still. We have X Just X being misused. Two Words: Obvious Trope is actually a trope. Not Self Explanatory seems to describe a situation I've never seen before (for all that "I've never seen before" counts for"). It would be better I think to have one page which talks about the problems of Obviousness Myopia and then has a subsection for each of these individual problems. One could use Not Self Explanatory for the predefined message and cut X Just X (because nobody is going to put Not Self Explanatory as a pothole) and then add a few more situations e.g.