When I used to have gold to gild, I would always give it to the stupidest comment, like the most childish shit ever, if you had a poop joke or something, I'd give you gold, most of the time people would join in and gild the dumb comment.
This is off topic, but why isn't there an animated gif of Bugs Bunny saying the "NO"? I mean, we have animated gifs for almost everything else, but I only see this as a static pic. Can no one find the cartoon that this is from and create a gif from it?
Interesting idea, make the users pay to effectively moderate posts in a positive way, this won't have large ramifications with what's on the front page /s.
Reddit heard "mods are unpaid" and found a way to charge them.