Payment by karma

I’ve mastered the “multi-letter” narration about the creation of thematic search engines on the example of TechObzor , and I thought this: do you think we’ve witnessed something new, namely, trying to pay people real hard enough for virtual karma?

Labudometr offers everyone to send him relevant links, and in return guarantees an increase in karma. Even the "price list" is attached: for each new website with reviews - plus for karma, for each "wrong" link in the issue of Technical Review - plus for comment.

As a result, TechObzor receives content by paying for it with an increase in karma (and karma is nothing more than an indicator of the deserved attention of the community to its member). And in turn, he will “sell” this content to visitors of his search engine, receiving their share of attention.
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It turns out a kind of new Marxist formula "attention - content - attention", or, if you wish, "traffic - content - traffic" in terms of sociality.

... ... reread the above: somehow it turned out to be surprising. Probably, clever words are not necessary. The point is simpler: someone has already met with payment options for karma (status in the community, rating, etc. with virtual tools) for performing very real actions?

Or is this really the first case?

PS By the way, I really liked TechObzor itself - it gives a lot of results that I expected to get. So do not think - I have no personal claims to the creators.