abbreviation
Internet Slang
RTFA
· abbreviation · internet
Read The F***ing Article — reply to commenters who clearly didn't.
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Definitions
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Curt reply telling someone to read the linked article before commenting on it. Deployed when a top comment is loudly wrong about something the first paragraph clears up.
“RTFA — they explicitly say in paragraph two that the funding was rejected.”
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RTFA In A Sentence
RTFA — they explicitly say in paragraph two that the funding was rejected.
Origin & Usage
Spin on the older sysadmin classic RTFM (Read The F***ing Manual). RTFA was popularised on Slashdot in the early 2000s, where commenters routinely argued about headlines without opening the link, and carried over to Reddit.
Variants
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