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Where did karma begin?

3 points by annoyed ↗ HN
can anyone recall the first website to implement karma for user activity?

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dangoldin
You can make a claim that Ebay did it with their user rating system. They were started in 1995 but I am not sure whether they had user ratings as part of their launch product.
pg
Slashdot was the first I know of.
ivankirigin
I've heard that it's cyclical, and doesn't have a beginning.