I'd always associated the term "karma whores" with people who recycle and repost stuff for the imaginary Internet points. "IPC personalities" would be people w

I'd always associated the term "karma whores" with people who recycle and repost stuff for the imaginary Internet points. "IPC personalities" would be people who are actually reasonably well-intentioned, but sort of "stalk" the New/Rising equivalent queues (or tags on SO) to be able to "frist ps0t!!1" a reasonable looking (but obvious!) comment or answer. The classic "low brow dismissal" or low hanging fruit humour type comment comes to mind (Correlation is not causation, but will it run Linux, has Netcraft confirmed it, etc.).