Spend reputation for good answers [duplicate]

Question

Is it possible to spend some reputation for a particularly good answer? Sometimes I would like to say thank you by not just commenting. :-)

A workaround is to create a bounty, but that's not exactly what I'm after.

Answer 1

This is actually one of the reasons for a bounty:

Alternately, there's the free option of upvoting... you pay nothing, they get ten rep it's win-win.

---

Also, please don't say "thanks" in comments.

• Compliments which do not add new information ("+1, great answer!"); instead, up-vote it and pay it forward;