In the next LiveJournal update , it became possible to thank the authors financially. This was reported in a press release received by the editors of Lenta.ru.

You can express gratitude in financial terms using the “+10 tokens” button, each time you press it, the specified funds are transferred to the author from the account of the user who presses the button. You can financially reward your favorite author only if you have at least 10 tokens in your account, which can be purchased in the LiveJournal store. The cost of 10 tokens is 3 rubles.

“In the future, the number of tokens listed in support will influence the overall rating of the post, and a separate rating of the posts most ardently supported by readers will be built,” wrote in his blog. LiveJournal development director Ilya Dronov

The item “Someone gave me tokens” has been added to the settings, with which the user can set up notifications about which friend transferred him a material reward.

You can insert the “+10 tokens” button into your post either as a separate tag or as a tag to add a standard set of “Like” buttons from Twitter , Facebook , VKontakte or Google .

LiveJournal is the most popular blog hosting site on the Runet - the Cyrillic segment of the LiveJournal audience exceeds 33 million readers per month with more than 5 million registered accounts.

LJ authors were allowed to thank financially