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 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
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Get significantly more reaction/likes/upvotes to your reply than their original comment did.
Greater ratio of likes vs them.
My understanding is that it’s the original comment’s retweet/reply ratio. At least it used to be.
Originally, yes; but language evolves.
Yes, but IMO the comments need to be at odds. I wouldn’t consider your reply here a ‘ratio’.
That’s when the reply gets more updoots than the OP it replied to.
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
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.
Twitter substitute for downvotes