To dishonestly boost your rates for personal gain and making it appear as though they are superior or popular, whether it's Bitstrips, YouTube or any social media website that consists of rates. Some may rateboost to outnumber their haters.
"Bitstrips user dchan250 used multiple accounts to rateboost his strip to get to top author"
Comes from Nex R’s song “Rate Bloomer”. This phrase refers to someone who was not liked or popular beforehand but is now the top dawg and is now someone that everybody likes and rates.
It's what ignorant police and newscasters say to sound important when they should really say "speed", as in " the car was traveling at a high rate of speed."
These people will often say " at this point in time" rather than "now. "