A forum I was on in 2006 had "reputation" which was a proto-like button. It had rules (can only rep a person once in a set period, can't rep more than 10 people

A forum I was on in 2006 had "reputation" which was a proto-like button. It had rules (can only rep a person once in a set period, can't rep more than 10 people a day). The higher the rep you had, the more your repping affected others. Below a threshold you got autobanned (good for keeping out trolls and spammers). At different rep levels you got different messages. These were like medals or badges of honour. I also realised back then how much I was strangely addicted to it. I would try to be funny just to get rep. I envied those with higher rep than me or who jumped the levels more quickly. Basically, it was toxic for me. It kind of innoculated me against likes a few years later.