karma whore

名词 n. 动词 v.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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. Internet
    — But the site's system is volatile, and not all original content is well-received. Karma whores know this in their core. Karma whores learn to be clinical and bot-like. Karma whores make nothing themselves and often pull their content from users on other sites without crediting.
动词 v.
  1. To act as a karma whore. Internet
    — Though this might seem to be a performance-contigent reward, there are well-known tricks for posting comments that wil be well-received, even though they contribute little to the conversation, such as resposting popular comments from previous conversations or reciting inside jokes. Such activities earned their own colloquial name "karma whoring."

词形变化

karma whores plural karma-whore alternative karmawhore alternative karma whores present,singular,third-person karma whoring participle,present karma whored participle,past karma whored past karma-whore alternative karmawhore alternative

词源

词源 1
First used around 2000 on the social news website Slashdot.
词源 2
First used around 2000 on the social news website Slashdot.
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