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Murdered by Words

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Responses that completely destroy the original argument in a way that leaves little to no room for reply - a targeted, well-placed response to another person, organization, or group of people.

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[–] itrealgood@mander.xyz 23 points 3 days ago (6 children)

What does it mean to ratio someone

[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 51 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Get significantly more reaction/likes/upvotes to your reply than their original comment did.

Greater ratio of likes vs them.

[–] binarytobis@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

My understanding is that it’s the original comment’s retweet/reply ratio. At least it used to be.

[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago

Originally, yes; but language evolves.

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.

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 4 points 2 days ago

Yes, but IMO the comments need to be at odds. I wouldn't consider your reply here a 'ratio'.

[–] GrabtharsHammer@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago

That's when the reply gets more updoots than the OP it replied to.

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago

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

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Popularity contest.

[–] SockOlm@hexbear.net 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

to get more likes, it originated with g*mers in the context of kills/deaths ratios or something like that

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

it's an annoying affectation some liberals have picked up that minimizes the censoring of certain triggering terms, probably on tumblr.

[–] SockOlm@hexbear.net 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

gamer = someone that plays games

g*mer = joker-gaming

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 days ago
[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 days ago

Twitter substitute for downvotes