In case anybody doesn't know, I run a bitcoin node challenge over on Bitcointalk. The idea is so that anybody who happens to need a few merits can start a Bitcoin Core node to help the wider network, leave it running for a while, and get rewarded with merits in return.
It costs a large amount of merit to run this sort of challenge and over the past few months I have distributed hundreds of merits.
So maybe if anybody has a favorite altcoin they would like to help by running a node or a validator then that could be a great idea.
One impediment is that I have almost zero Karma here (LOL) so it would mean someone else would have to run it.
You don't have to own karma to give Karma like it is on bitcointalk where we have to own smerits in other to be able to send merits to other users, but the thing here is that, you can't send more than 1 karma to a user per time, and to send another 1 karma to the same user, you will have to wait for 10 hours.
Anyways, aside the karma sending limitations which is supposed to act as the reward for what you are proposing, I think this actually is a great idea, but I believe alot of us will be interested, but what I think will hinder most of us from participating is not meeting the minimum requirement software and or hardware requirements to run most Altcoin nodes/become validators.
I personally have tried one time to run an Altcoin node for one Altcoin project like that, but gave up after seeing the their hardware and software requirements, and finding out how much it will cost me to acquire such hardwares the meets the required specifications, I couldnt afford it, so I just gave up.
But all the same, I will be here to see how this goes.