What Does This Mean?
Reddit's cumulative score of upvotes minus downvotes attached to a user's account, functioning as a persistent, publicly visible reputation number rather than tied to any single post.
EXPLAINER
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REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
"Ten years on the platform and somehow still barely any karma to show for it."
LORE & ORIGIN
Reddit's implementation of an upvote/downvote reputation system, itself an evolution of earlier community karma systems like Slashdot's.
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