I just thought about how valuable genuine personal feedback is and in the context of LW that there is some tradition to post anonymous feedback forms (see .g. here). And I wondered: Could this be made into something more structured and valuable? Assuming feedback is valuable could a medium be found that supports that? I wondered whether a forum like Stackoverflow could be medified and employed to give and receive feedback. Or an addition to an existing foum for anonymous feedback. The difficulty is if anonymity is provided it can be abused. Esp. if you encourage feedback e.g. by karma.

So the crazy idea itself is this: Provide a platform where users can give and receive feedback. Honor giving feedback with karma. Receiving feedback costs karma (so you are encouraged to give it if you can). Before feedback is received it is passed thrue one or more unrelated reviewer (by some distance measure) who also gains karma by reviewing consistently. Could a forum work for encouraging to give and at the same time protect people from feedback?

Yes this is a typical engineers solution to a social problem. Yes we can't do this right now (same as with prediction markets) but just for the sake of the idea this it is.