It appears I am dramatically less popular than I was a few months back when I checked my ratio manually.
I’m not at all surprised. 
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So we are present for the origin story of Postmash 
You don’t get to one billion likes without at least a few ratios
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I’ve been pounding the like button on chrisv posts since he changed his avatar.
You gotta ask for the order, if you wanna make the sale.
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I gotta post less to keep my ratio above 1
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I plan on deleting all my old posts without likes.
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Oh yes, his most liked post is a thing of beauty:
I’m really surprised he has 689 posts. He’s a machine gun of stupidity.
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That’s exactly why he does have 689 posts.
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Booze is a hell of a drug
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We are overthinking this. A high ratio comes either from spamming memes or from only posting when you have something expansive to say. You’re not going to have a high ratio if you’re primarily posting conversationally, but smart conversations represent some of the best aspects of this forum.
Ratio data is fun to look at, but I think the forum probably gets worse if we actually start caring about it. I like you all, for the record.
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Well well well, if it isn’t Mr 2.837 near the top of the list tryin to keep us common folk down…
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Fine, take my damn like already.
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I try to like posts that make good points in a discussion even if they aren’t funny or ground breaking.
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OTOH, if your life was a television series every story arc would be like…
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Welcome to the world of trickle up likenomics, motherfucker. Enjoy the reverse-meritocracy.
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I’m not sure if that’s because I am a high volume poster or because I frequently crank it to to 11 on people.
Both seem true, and neither is good for my ratio. But, tis my nature.
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We should DQ gimmicks from these rankings. You may not like it, Preet, but lol fuck you.
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But seriously, I completely agree with what you said and was in the middle of a post trying to make the same point in a much less eloquent way.
- Conversational posting, posing questions, etc often doesn’t generate a lot of likes but keeps threads moving along and sparks new conversation and content.
- Posting something that is meaningful to people in a thread with low traffic won’t generate a lot of likes, but fosters community and meaningful connection.
- Posting answers to simple questions helps people, but won’t generate a lot of likes.
It’s fun data to look at, but as you said, if we started using the metric to guide posting in this forum it would descend rather quickly into who can post a new meme the fastest or photoshop trumps face onto a phallus in the most convincing fashion.
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I’d be interested to see the percent of posts that got at least one like. Someone batting .800+ or .900+ is clearly doing well.
Also this stuff includes PMs right? I think discourse counts them as posts.
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“I’m a nine… 9” “I’ve never been a nine”
“Isn’t there zero-point to this”
“Who cares, I’m a 9”
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