A system on
Slashdot determining how much the
moderators and
meta-moderators like someone.
Nobody had a
problem with it until they started calling it Karma.
Now all sorts of
lamers run around accusing people of being
karma whores.
That probably would never have happened if it didn't have a cool name like Karma. After all, "good-posting-history whore" doesn't have the same ring to it.