We could have some scarce resource based on karma. Not paying with karma directly, because I guess losing karma would feel bad, but rather that with each 100 karma points you get 1 “credit”.
You could then spend those credits e.g. on visually highlighting other people’s comments and articles. Something like when Reddit displays that a comment got “Reddit gold”. It could even transfer some karma (but much less than it costs) to the rewarded user, but mostly it would be a costly signal of “I really liked this”, with the name of person giving the reward displayed as a tooltip. A costly version of “+1 nice”, essentially.
We could have some scarce resource based on karma. Not paying with karma directly, because I guess losing karma would feel bad, but rather that with each 100 karma points you get 1 “credit”.
You could then spend those credits e.g. on visually highlighting other people’s comments and articles. Something like when Reddit displays that a comment got “Reddit gold”. It could even transfer some karma (but much less than it costs) to the rewarded user, but mostly it would be a costly signal of “I really liked this”, with the name of person giving the reward displayed as a tooltip. A costly version of “+1 nice”, essentially.