ratioing
- 1Present participle and gerund of ratio.
Users spent the evening ratioing the airline's dismissive apology.
Ratioing the brand's tone-deaf tweet, thousands piled into the replies.
Note
A verb the internet made from a noun: the social-media ratio of comments to likes, itself borrowed from the mathematician's comparison of two quantities. It is transitive, so its object is the post being answered: ratioing a tweet, ratioing an apology. As a gerund it names the pile-on itself, and it sits beside the bare reply "Ratio," an interjection that announces the disagreement it hopes to produce.
ratioing is a form of ratio
ratio, verb: On social media, to show up a post by flooding it with more replies than it has likes, or with a reply that outscores it in likes, especially to condemn or mock its author. Full entry
- Spelling
- ratio → ratioing: add -ing
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