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.

The following things are not grounds for murder:

Personal appearance ("You're fat", "You're ugly")
Posts with little-to-no context
Posts based on a grammar/spelling error
Dick jokes, "Yo mama", "No, you" type responses and other low effort insults
"Your values are bad" without any logcal or factual ways of showing that they are wrong ("I believe in capitalism" - "Well, then you must be evil" or "Fuck you you ignorant asshole")

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submitted 1 month ago by flamingos@feddit.uk to c/murderedbywords@feddit.uk

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[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 59 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

Greater ratio of likes vs them.

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[–] binarytobis@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 child)

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

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[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month 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.

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[–] Mac@mander.xyz 4 points 1 month ago

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

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