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I started seeing a weird trend on Lemmy that I cannot understand.

Weeks ago, posts used to have downvotes and upvotes in the semi-rational range you would expect.

Out of nowhere, it seems like almost all the posts I see now have zero downvotes with some exceptions.

What is happening here exactly?

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[โ€“] runiq@feddit.org 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What's ratioing? Is that ratio-ing? Way too many vowels for my heat-addled brain

[โ€“] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yea, lol. It's a terminally-online term for a reply having higher upvotes than the original comment, which due to the format of social media presenting the original comment first means normally the trend is the opposite unless the second comment is a banger or the original is awful (or both).

[โ€“] runiq@feddit.org 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ohhh, I see. Thanks for enlightening me :)

[โ€“] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago