Gift code button.

Perhaps its just me but I would like to be able to give people gift codes for posts, similar in fashion to how I can gift people pie or apples. I hit a button and enter the code and a golden ticket appears on the post.

I think this is an excellent idea.  

Can you give me a couple of example ideas of the sort of posts where you would want to do that?

I suppose it would also be good to go to their profile and give them a gift in general.

Maybe instead of a golden ticket it could be a button with a plus sign and a little gift image?

I made a competition in the UK and Ireland forum for best post to encourage discussion there so the idea came from that. PMing the winner the code is a bit clunky and doesn't really incentivise or explain what the prize was for in the same way as attaching it to the post does. So for competitions, raffles etc it could be useful. I could see myself using it for posts I find particularly useful, sometimes there is information on here I wouldn't find in month of Sundays and despite giving them an apple and a positive response, I have never really thought to send them a code until now. So setting this up should give others the same idea.

Another situation might be sending a micro doc to new person asking lighting rocket mass heater might be convenient if you don't want to type it all out!

Yes general gift code on the profile might be good too.  

As you have the gift image already I think you are right, go with that. Could we frame the post with some pixels of a different colour so it stands out a bit?