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This guy needs to be ratioed on Twitter for those of you with accounts (Original Post) Proud liberal 80 Jan 2021 OP
He needs to be what? CurtEastPoint Jan 2021 #1
You're Not Alone ProfessorGAC Jan 2021 #3
Google says... CurtEastPoint Jan 2021 #4
Yeah, I Looked It Up, Too ProfessorGAC Jan 2021 #5
I have one but never use it. CurtEastPoint Jan 2021 #6
At a glance, it looks like a mainstream non-opinionated analysis that just happens to be wrong. Beakybird Jan 2021 #2

CurtEastPoint

(18,668 posts)
4. Google says...
Sat Jan 9, 2021, 04:06 PM
Jan 2021

verb (used with object), ra·tioed or ra·tio'd, ra·tio·ing.
(on Twitter) to flood (a tweet or its author) with negative replies such that commenters as a group take control of the momentum and message away from the original poster:
Political pundits trying to write provocative and edgy tweets are going to get ratioed sooner or later.

ProfessorGAC

(65,251 posts)
5. Yeah, I Looked It Up, Too
Sat Jan 9, 2021, 04:16 PM
Jan 2021

I'm out. I don't believe it accomplishes much & I don't have a Twitter account. So, I'd be of no help, anyway.

Beakybird

(3,333 posts)
2. At a glance, it looks like a mainstream non-opinionated analysis that just happens to be wrong.
Sat Jan 9, 2021, 04:02 PM
Jan 2021

His projection was off by 2%. So many analysts and pollsters have been off this cycle, perhaps they should all be humiliated.

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