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	Mechanisms of an Online Public Sphere: The Website Slashdot
		Karma on Slashdot attempts to be a reflection of a user's actions, and is comprised of three things.
		Karma is clearly important to some, as it plays a role in moderation.
		Karma is used to remove risky users from the moderator pool, and to assign a bonus point to users who have contributed positively to Slashdot in the past.
	jcmc.indiana.edu /vol10/issue2/poor.html (7437 words)

	CalendarHome.com - - Calendar Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		People that post comments designed to get more karma, for example mirroring a linked article or presenting a banal groupthink opinion or lame joke, are referred to as karma whores.
		Those who can moderate are selected by their karma score and number of meta moderations (and maybe other criteria).
		Karma is implemented in the Slash Content management system and hence is generally used by all the sites that use this software.
	encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /cgi-bin/encyclopedia.pl?p=Slashdot (2799 words)

	Neverness - reddit and digg - first impressions
		As far as I know karmas only rewards it accumulators with bragging rights, although I have a vague, probably mistaken memory of reading somewhere that it also affects the weighting of the vote.
		Its an interesting concept - the secrets of the algorithm are kept secret, and one downside is the phenomonen of so-called karma whores, who vote for stories they know will be popular in order to improve their own karma, doing nothing for the overall variety.
		Karma presently has no effect on the weight of user votes, it also can only be gained from submissions, not voting on them.
	www.greenman.co.za /b2evolution/blogs/index.php?p=230&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1 (1204 words)

	Beliefnet: Chattering Mind - Amy Cunningham, Spirituality blog, Beliefnet Spiritual parenting blog
		The law of karma at its basic best states that every choice has a consequence.
		My answer is no. The recall of other lifetimes, no matter if we think of them as real or metaphorical, is only important if they help us deal with this lifetime.
		May 24, 2007 1:32 AM My guess is that Donald and Rosie were publicity seeking media whores in a previous life.
	blog.beliefnet.com /chatteringmind/2007/05/captain-karma-we-salute-you.html (456 words)

	yes, it's another bloody blog.: on the logic of karma.
		Had a discussion the other day about karma, which I am beginning to hate the concept of.
		Karma has always seemed a rational process to me. Something happens and i think to myself, oh!
		The scary thing about believing in karma is that there is no one out there to argue with your logic.
	steflenkblogsagain.blogspot.com /2007/01/on-logic-of-karma.html (293 words)

	Slashdot - Encyclopedia Dramatica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Whores are more common on slashdot than trolls.
		The communal nature of granting and removing karma by the users is anti-authorative and actively discourages people with real knowledge about a subject from discussing it.
		Funny whores regularly trot out old memes, meaningless buzzwords, or lame "Simpsons" jokes (none of which are funny in any way).
	www.encyclopediadramatica.com /index.php/Slashdot (1245 words)

	Slashdot trolling phenomena - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Karma is a scoring system on Slashdot meant to reward "good" posting and punish "bad" posting.
		Karma whores are individuals, or messages themselves, that attempt to receive feedback in the form of karma points.
		These replies create a multiplier to the overall karma waste, as moderators compete to raise and lower the visibility of the comments (insightful replies receive positive feedback, though responses to trolls are typically moderated downward, to sink an entire tainted thread below the normal visible threshold).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Slashdot_trolling_phenomena#Hot_grits.2FNatal... (4164 words)

	rei_: Karma
		Karma literally means "deed or act" and more broadly names the universal principle of cause and effect, action and reaction which governs all life.
		Apparently, there are three types of karma, 1) sanchita karma, the sum total of past karmas yet to be resolved; 2) prarabdha karma, that portion of sanchita karma that is to be experienced in this life; and 3) kriyamana karma, the karma that humans are currently creating and will bear fruit in the future.
		This samsaric karma comes in two "flavours" -"good" karma, which leads to positive/pleasurable experiences, like high rebirth (as a deva, asura, or human), and "bad" karma which leads to suffering and low rebirth (as a hell-sufferer, as a preta, or as an animal).
	users.livejournal.com /rei_/14550.html (1038 words)

	Slashdot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		To prevent abusive comments, a moderation system has been implemented whereby every comment posted (including those posted anonymously) can be "moderated" up or down by semi-randomly chosen moderators, changing the post's score likewise.
		People that post comments designed to get more karma, for example mirroring a linked article, are sometimes referred to as karma whores.
		Those who can moderate are selected by their karma score and number of meta moderations (and maybe other criteria).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Slashdot (1609 words)

	Meatball Wiki: MojoAnalysis
		Slashdot karma is cumulative, confers special powers, and tends to be self-reinforcing.
		The fact that both karma and moderation at Slashdot had to be artificially constrained (1-50 and 1-5, respectively), should be a clear indicator that something is wrong.
		Slashdot karma allows 'whores' to accumulate a quantity which is not immediately responsive to current behavior, which tends to reinforce the score (more highly moderated posts tend to get more moderation, moderation score is not independent of number of moderators, quite contrary), and abusive behavior becomes possible.
	www.usemod.com /cgi-bin/mb.pl?MojoAnalysis (451 words)

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		Karma is a scoring system on Slashdot meant to reward "good" posting and punish "bad" posting.
		The goal is that people who repeatedly post offensive, offtopic, or otherwise unwanted messages will be punished with a lower visibility of their messages, and those who post informative, insightful, or otherwise desirable messages are rewarded with a higher visibility.
		Karma whores are individuals, or messages themselves, that attempt to receive feedback in the form of karma points.
	www.lycos.com /info/slashdot--linux-systems.html?page=2 (371 words)

	Karma
		you see, my biggest problem with it is that for there to actually be karma, a universal system of right and wrong must exist.
		oh, i almost forgot about the hindu belief that karma is responsible for your place in life.
		so, we see the hindu concept of karma, where it is used as an excuse to abuse people and keep some in poverty and some in riches, and we associate that with our payback system of heaven and hell, so we figure it must be right.
	www.angelfire.com /ny3/deniedheaven/karma.html (919 words)

	Meatball Wiki: KarmaWhore
		Thus, karma whores look like they are providing useful information when they are just regurgitating common material.
		GroupThink is one of the most controversial aspects of karma whoring, as some think it's legitimate to summarize the common viewpoint for future readers.
		Because the game is to accumulate karma, the only way to accumulate more after you've reached your cap is to "burn karma" off.
	www.usemod.com /cgi-bin/mb.pl?KarmaWhore (550 words)

	BF2S Forums / Karma Etiquette (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		I have read through countless closed threads on Karma but I have not been able to find out a way to identify the person who gives you Karma.
		Thats what I will do I had a feeling I might get multiple Karma whores claming to be the one.
		Karma is earned through intelligent/funny/worthy posts, not because you gave someone else karma.
	forums.bf2s.com /viewtopic.php?pid=1540853 (993 words)

	Old reputation system thread. REP system has been deactivated... [Archive] - My ADSL & My Broadband Forums - Internet, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Also, there is a daily limit on the amount of karma you can spread around, and it looks like there is a time limit on rating a particular forumite - no matter which of their posts you want to rate.
		Karma whores are individuals, or messages themselves, that attempt to receive feedback in the form of karma points.
		I received a bad karma point from someone on the topic "flavoured cheese" where I pointed out that Debbie2's eating habit made me think she was pregnant.
	mybroadband.co.za /vb/archive/index.php/t-29229.html (11533 words)

	Dinktionary Term Template
		Sometimes, people would release absoulute garbage in the quest of points, that is called point whoring.
		Point Whore (v.) - To act in the manner of a point whore.
		Source: redink1 was the first to take the concept of Karma Whores and apply it to Dink, but it's now a broadly used term.
	www.geocities.com /russianmyst/p.html (308 words)

	Karma Whores - MX6.com
		Watch, scoob will get hit with bad karma from the cynical bastards which will be irrelavent to the ammount of good karma he will get from this thread.
		The karma system was put in place so new members to the board would know who to turn to to get good information, when trolls like you decide to take karma from those of us who have earned karma by helping others, it demeans us and the system and ruins the spirit of the system.
		The loss in karma isn't detrimental seeing as how it was only a single point from you and two from Jay, but it was the spirit that was bad.
	www.mx6.com /forums/archive/index.php/t-92546.html (869 words)

	Phildo’s Blog » Spam Karma 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		I’m using Bad Behavior as well as it seems to do a very nice job of stopping trackback spam but was letting other stuff though.
		Phil that silly thing I forwarded to you from my monster account where an obivious spamming scum sucking whore company was trying to solict me for employeement.
		Bad Behaviour and Spam Karma 2 is the double whammy and will take care of just about anything.
	www.phildo.org /?p=543 (365 words)

	Visualización del karma de cada usuario « menéame
		El número de la izquierda es el karma final, que es la media ponderada entre el karma anterior y el nuevo valor calculado (si el valor actual es menor al anterior se muestra con un “<<”, si es mayor con “>>”).
		This entry was posted on Martes, Noviembre 7th, 2006 at 7:36 pm and is filed under menéame, karma.
		El Karma, tal y como se calcula, no es mas que un indicador de como coincides con la opinión de los que tienen mas karma (o en su defecto con un grupo suficientemente grande de usuarios, siendo a veces necesario con un ratio 4 a 1 con los primeros).
	blog.meneame.net /2006/11/07/visualizacion-del-karma-de-cada-usuario (834 words)

	fuckfrance.com - Stripped again? Miss France in row over Playboy photos (1204766) - Read article:
		All frog women are whores who would shed their clothes for a saw buck in a heartbeat.
		The whores are the only non hypocrit human beeing on Earth.
		She's just a whore, and a big jalous girl, caus' she hasn't got the beauty of this Miss...She just pretend to have it presenting herself as a false roller-skating californian girl who by the way are great know for their culture, mind spirit...
	fuckfrance.com /read.html?postid=1204766&replies=38&page=1 (641 words)

	Neverness - reddit and digg - first impressions
		A user also accumulates karma, which is dependant on the success of stories they submit and vote upon.
		As far as I know karmas only rewards it accumulators with bragging rights, although I have a vague, probably mistaken memory of reading somewhere that it also affects the weighting of the vote.
		Its an interesting concept - the secrets of the algorithm are kept secret, and one downside is the phenomonen of so-called karma whores, who vote for stories they know will be popular in order to improve their own karma, doing nothing for the overall variety.
	greenman.co.za /b2evolution/blogs/index.php?p=230&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1 (852 words)

	Asians, Inc. - Who wants +KARMA?!
		Give me karma because you want to and not because I am begging this shit out of you for it.
		Good karma will give you some good posting mojo.
		Karma whores - for a limited time, only.
	asiansinc.com /forums/showthread.php?t=27309 (414 words)

	List Of Biggest Google Whores For 2009 : Dirty little secret, ways to make money online
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		If there’s any good time to start doing something about your future, there’s no better time to do it now.
		This blog is protected by dr Dave's Spam Karma 2: 58270 Spams eaten and counting...
	www.miriguy.com /2007/04/18/list-of-biggest-google-whores-for-2009 (570 words)

	Asp Net Hosting
		This type of post involves the poster carries a low numeric ID. Karma whores Karma whoring is considered trolling because it distracts from more meaningful and informative comments.
		Karma is designed to be modded up, doing so specifically to increase one's karma score.
		This has spread outside of the Clinton plan, nowhere mentioning they were directly hired by Philip Morris corporation released millions of pages of documents concerning their operations.
	websitehosting.2vv1.com /aspnethosting.html (955 words)

	Digg Vs Slashdot
		Moderation points added to a comment are also added to a user’s karma score.
		Having high karma gives added bonuses to users, such as the ability to autopost at higher starting values.
		Those who can moderate are selected by their karma score and number of meta moderations (and maybe other criteria).
	tech-buzz.net /2006/05/13/digg-vs-slashdot (3197 words)

	fuckfrance.com - re: Not all Europeans are surrendering to the muslim scums like the French whores (2330598) - Read ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
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		Public Reply to Not all Europeans are surrendering to the muslim scums like the French whores
		I guess someone here didn't read the dozens of posts about the grand mufti of juerusalem sucking Nazi cock and volutneering brigades of "throat slitters" to the nazi SS.
	www.fuckfrance.com /read.html?postid=2330598 (94 words)

	La ley del Karma // menéame
		El Karma es una medicina que se nos aplica para nuestro propio bien (...) Cuando protestamos no se nos modifica el Karma si no que se vuelve mas duro y más severo (...) Generalmente, cuando la Ley nos cobra, siempre pensamos que somos inocentes, que no debemos nada.
		En este sentido, el karma consituye una fuerza inconsciente y condicionante, que hace que los individuos tiendan a un determinado estado de vida, ya sea bajo o elevado.
		El karma no es una fuerza ciega; se basa en el error/aprendizaje, si aprendes una lección, no es necesario que el karma se vuelva contra tí, sería inútil, puedes hacer mucho bien para compensarlo.
	meneame.net /story/la-ley-del-karma (1131 words)

	I want some karma!!!11 - FileFront Gaming Forums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		And apart from anything else, begging threads are against the rules, IIRC, and so in reality all you are doing is making yourself look foolish and pretty sad, as well as generating extra work for the staff of GF.
		That's not much better than begging for it, really, because if someone hasn't done something specific that you think is deserving of some karma, then all you're doing is artificially inflating (or deflating, if you and your friend have a strange relationship...
		The problem with the karma is that it really isn't handed out alot even over good posting, working to get good pictures or information, etc. I try to hand it out when I can, but that button isn't incredibly noticeable either.
	www.gamingforums.com /showthread.php?t=190313 (693 words)

	Rating The Comments With Comment Karma \| John Chow dot Com
		There is no way to tell who has the most karma on their comments.
		If there isn’t then a person with bad karma could, quite ironically, spam their way out of it with a huge number of positive votes.
		John, I was wondering what you were going to implement to deal with comment whoring to get on your top 10 list and it seems this plugin (if you can implement a leaderboard) would be an excellent replacement to the top commentators listing.
	www.johnchow.com /rating-the-comments-with-comment-karma (2517 words)

	AERA 2003 Writing and Literacies SIG keynote
		One of these is ‘karma’, which is used to rate a participant as an active member of the community relative to the number of newsworthy postings—both in terms of submitting stories and posting comments on stories—she or he has made to the site overall.
		Others users are accused of being ‘karma whores’ if they appear to be ‘sucking up to’ or worming their way into the favour of Plastic editors in the hopes of getting more stories accepted than other users, or having their comments modded up.
		And, despite some posters loudly and repeatedly protesting that they don’t care about their overall karma, karma ratings—and the moderation system—are indeed ‘a new arithmetic of self-esteem’ on Plastic (Shroedinger’s Cat 2002: 1).
	www.geocities.com /c.lankshear/key2003.html (7846 words)

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