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Imagine waiting 7 months for a ratio to become sucessful

couldn't be me

A "ratio" on the interwebz occurs when a (usually disagreeing or argumentative) response to a comment or post gets more positive feedback than the original comment or post. An equivalent of the same type of ratio would be, the original post or comment getting hounded by negative feedback.

After the term and the news of the discovery of this naturally-occuring phenomenon escaped Twitter and found its way into cooler (😎) communities (Reddit), "ratio" became part of the active vocabulary of every memeing community. Internetters started using phrases like ``Get ratio'd`` or ``Eat this ratio, ****. I hope you ***. ************!.``

An organic ratio is a ratio that occurs naturally. The audience of a particular post or comment can like or dislike the original idea, and this may result in a ratio through either the number of negative responses to OP, or positive feedback to the negative response(s) to OP.

The ratio may, or may not mention the word "ratio" itself, but that makes no difference. Mention of the word during active ratios is only common in (cool) meme communities (like MSmg), and not elsehwere (in less cooler communities) like Twitter.

Here is an example of an organic ratio that mentions the word "ratio."

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The comment has been put in the cone of shame and requires a pity-click just to be viewed.
Here is the pity-clicked comment:

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An inflated ratio (uncool) occurs when a responder to OP uses uncool methods to "inflate" the perceived agreeableness or sheer genius of their response. Bot upvotes and bot comments are definitely dark practice, as was commonly accepted even before the advent of ratios.

The interesting part is the brigader in this situation. The brigader thinks he's doing the right thing and 'winning the ratio' when he summons his internet allies and real-life family (🤣) to upvote his response to OP. As Oogway once said about a small and independent pizzeria run by a single-mother of four, "Fajita and Pepperoni cannot go together." Maybe it was Gandhi who said it originally, but that's beyond the scope of this discussion. The brigader is wrong. There is no difference, in essence, between brigading for upvotes and bot-voting. Just the fact that the responses are 'human' does not justify the murder.

One might ask, "What if the responders perfectly understand OP and then disagree with it? Aren't they allowed to express themselves? And can that not lead to an organic ratio?"
No.
Take, for example, a political lefty community. If a lost anon finds his way to this lefty community and comments an extremely disagreeable opinion on a post, then links his 'based' response to 4chan and other anons upvote it and agree with,
would it count as an organic ratio? It's not possible for it to.
The audience that responded in the negative (to OP), is not even part of the community.
The "successful" ratio doesn't represent the opposition to OP in the given community, it represents an anomaly. The ratio is useless and OP knows that the community doesn't hold the same ideas as the anomalistic opposition.

Again, the forced-through-brigade ratio is no different than spambot ratios. They're both just as unrepresentative of the views of the community.

Here is an example of an attempted inflated ratio:
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Poster should be ashamed. This is no way to gain validity.

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you should've linked it to the ratio on this post, creating an infinite loop of ratios and hypocrisy

Would never stoop so low.

Wasn't listening cause we love u sm drizzy

dude who even are you

Daniels
Apparently

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