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First used around 2000 on the social news website Slashdot.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Today it means: Someone excessively dedicated to gaining karma (“a score assigned to a user or post on a discussion forum, indicating popularity or perceived value”), often by disagreeable methods such as reposting content or creating fake stories. Full definition →
First used around 2000 on the social news website Slashdot.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.