It's been brought up before and apparently the owner of the forum isn't for it. People around here are pretty fucking jewish (no offense) with their bitcoin and don't give it out willie nilly. I don't think tipping would go over very well with the users even if it was allowed.
It's not just this forum. On Reddit, the only community that tips a lot are the Doge lot. That's because Doge has a super low fee (1 doge, which is about 55 satoshis). So it's easy for them to tip in small amounts that don't cost them much at all but make the recipient feel good. Bitcoin isn't built for tipping or microtransactions.
The tips don't need to be done in the form of microtransactions on the block chain. Let me give you a simple workflow example:
Sign up on 3rd party website by entering in your BitcoinTalk username
Receive private message on BitcoinTalk containing link that lets you set a password on 3rd party site (obviously use different pw then your BitcoinTalk pw).
Generate a deposit address (think Bittrex, Poloniex, etc).
Populate your wallet, and then tip users.
Send a tip to someone by typing #tip alyssa85 0.82 LTC
A user (receiving a tip)
would not need to be signed up or have a precreated wallet so it wouldn't require waiting for adoption.
PM could be something as simple as
Hey alyssa85, you've been tipped 0.82 LTC from (some user).
If you haven't already you can sign up here (insert some link) to claim your tip and get tipping today!
User who receives a tip or has funds on the website could then proceed to redistribute them via tipping or simply withdraw them (
this is what would cause a blockchain transaction).
Here's where I said maintenance would come into since any currencies added would require a node daemon to be kept in sync and maintained for each supported coin.
A single contained thread could be used for where the bot makes its posts/updates about who's been tipped what, deposits/withdrawals, a list of all addresses associated with the bot/site for auditing/proof of balance, etc.