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Voting something down as deliberately obscure because you don't understand it strikes me as an egregious case of the mind projection fallacy.
If you can take the time to write a comment, but conceal all of its meanings in an acronym, with no hint from context as to the meaning of the acronym, then you deserve to be voted down, because you save 2 seconds of your time but waste many seconds of the time of everyone who reads it and doesn't know what the acronym means.
We need a catchy name for the fallacy of being over-eager to accuse people of fallacies that you have catchy names for.
(I could be wrong about TL;DR. It's a judgement call as to whether your readers should know an acronym or not. I'd expect people here to know what LW or OB mean.)
How about "Catchy Fallacy Name Fallacy"?
And I agree that it applies here.
lol
Use urban dictionary.
Thanks to fast internet connections, good web search and online dictionaries, failing to expand an acronym only increases the cost from 5 seconds to 5 seconds per reader...