User blog comment:Canopenerdude/OMG YOU NOOB/@comment-5556439-20130323061617

All people mean when they call you noob is that your inskilled. Simple.

There are some great examples of when a player is actually good, but their lane partner is getting them killed, or their jungler refuses to gank, and causes their opponents to snowball. Or a very common example, a bad [insert laner] feeds another, another lane comes to help, and underestimates how strong the fed lane is and proceeds to feed more kills to them. This wasnt a lack of "skill" this was simply just a less-than-desirable threat analysis. You see streamers make simple mistakes like these all the time. If SaintVicious was jungling on a smurf and you had no idea it was him, and he misjudged a gank and died, I would gaurantee that you would flame "N00B report plsplspls" in /all chat, while Saint would just mute you and move on with his life, realising, that people with actual game knowledge shouldnt have to explain simple things to those with minimal game knowledge. Noob, its a word made by noobs to insult other noobs and raise their ego's.