Brad,

One problem with your logic, why would I want to post questions in technology forums that I don't use?

Having same problem as the thread starter, one person has thus far answered three in a row questions I had in the php forum but I can't award it. In other words this person is being penalised because no one else is answering what are simple newbie questions.

This is simply going to lead to people asking random questions, adding rep to whoever answers, just to get to the stage of giving rep to the person they want to say thanks to.

It is a very very silly system when you think about. I liked the suggest for a thanks mod, one is available as a mod to vB I believe and am aware you may not want to overload with additional stuff which has to be upgraded ... bit of a tiger's back thing there.