What you describe kind of sounds like a universal karma system (yay internet points!). As stackoverflow and similar sites have shown, people will do quite a lot to accumulate internet points.
Not really. You can't purchase karma. Or rather: karma that you could purchase with dollars and use to gratify someone or incentives a task would be akin to a specialised currency.
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What you describe kind of sounds like a universal karma system (yay internet points!). As stackoverflow and similar sites have shown, people will do quite a lot to accumulate internet points.
Not really. You can't purchase karma. Or rather: karma that you could purchase with dollars and use to gratify someone or incentives a task would be akin to a specialised currency.
Or: money is tradable karma.