if (boolValue == true) ...
I know it works, but just kill me now.

This bothers me too.

if ($something == $something_else) {
return true;
} else {
return false;
}
It will piss me off a little until my last breath

Verbosity never hurt anyone. ;)

@JakeHL I suppose you're right. Unless someone has a reason verbosity is bad. Lol

@shittywebdev
I mean, extreme Verbosity to the point of inefficiency might be a reason, but op's post isn't too bad :)

It's redundant, uncalled for, and offends me.

@drndavi definitely the most common example from my experience. it makes it harder to read, particularly when you are looking at a 1000 lines of php spaghetti code with just about everything in the global namespace...

of course there's also this gem:

if(a) {}
elseif (b) {}
else {
x=true;
}

@drndavi Or worse:
return $something == $somethingElse ? true : false;

I see this in many places... :/

@JakeHL I'm up for verbosity as far as it removes the need for comments, any other than that is too much :D