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Originally Posted by taosaur
While I wasn't here for the implementation of karma, I suspect it was a practical joke by the admins, directed at users who were asking for a reputation system on the board. I would class MR's karma as a satire of reputation systems on other forums. It is, however, aptly named: the precise workings of karma are one of Buddhism's four "imponderables."
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You know, it's probably coded directly into the forum template. I used to run my own forum and it had a pre-coded karma system already added. I either allowed it or not.
And yes, it was named "karma" and each person started with just 10 karma points.