Of course I'll get downvoted for this, but in any case: I expect the pejorative use of "whore" from 13 year olds in youtube comment sections, but less so from a front-page hacker news post.
But, that's what those people are commonly called; "karma whores". It's not like the writers of the article are trying to insult them. They're just using the name that everyone uses for them.
