Administrator Points for Participation?

There's a thread over at drupaled.org http://drupaled.org/node/74#comment-249 focusing on some possibilities for making user points even more helpful, and a key item is along the lines of another request for "point contral".

Is it possible to piggy-back the news that one can add points for any node type and create new nodes (maybe with flexinode?) that would allow the administrator to add bonus points to the record for specific users? This way, for instance, a faculty member might be able to give credits for performances on the site -- participation bonuses so to speak;-)