what people haven’t mentioned, I don’t think, is the original intent of the phrase to “get ratio’d” was to have more people reply to your tweet than like it. As it’s significantly more effort to write a reply than to hit like it usually indicated the person had said something foolish and people were rushing to correct them rather than simply like the tweet
Additionally, some people will attempt to “ratio” a tweet themselves. This entails a person showing up under a disagreeable tweet and betting that their post will receive more favorable statistics than the original post.
What does it mean to ratio someone
what people haven’t mentioned, I don’t think, is the original intent of the phrase to “get ratio’d” was to have more people reply to your tweet than like it. As it’s significantly more effort to write a reply than to hit like it usually indicated the person had said something foolish and people were rushing to correct them rather than simply like the tweet
Get significantly more reaction/likes/upvotes to your reply than their original comment did.
Greater ratio of likes vs them.
Yes, but IMO the comments need to be at odds. I wouldn’t consider your reply here a ‘ratio’.
My understanding is that it’s the original comment’s retweet/reply ratio. At least it used to be.
Originally, yes; but language evolves.
That’s when the reply gets more updoots than the OP it replied to.
to get more likes, it originated with g*mers in the context of kills/deaths ratios or something like that
Why do you censor “gamers”?
it’s an annoying affectation some liberals have picked up that minimizes the censoring of certain triggering terms, probably on tumblr.
gamer = someone that plays games
g*mer =
What?
Popularity contest.