Weekly Off-Topic & Flair Discussion In response to last week, you guys made yourselves pretty unambiguous, much to my surprise, so there will be no changes to the dissent rules. That being said, I continue to set a very high bar for dissent. Someone needs to explicitly deny CICO to violate this rule. Meaningful or semantic discussions about the validity of carbs versus protein, for example, do not qualify because it's overmoderation.  Moving-on to something hopefully less controversial, let's talk about flair. The motivation for this is that there continues to be no real way to earn custom flair (even though I offered it to anyone who wanted to create a chatroom and got no takers!). Unless we do a raffle or people are nominated for custom flair, both of which seem arbitrary or an appeal to popularity, I figure there isn't necessarily a great issue with anyone who is verified being eligible for whatever flair they want. You can have your own messages, colours, backgrounds, fonts, or whatever.  What are your thoughts on universal coloured/custom flair? I personally don't have a great problem with doing the work and meeting requests. The question is your opinion on having colourful, unique flairs everywhere. I would like to believe that there will be a natural limit to this because a lot of people are probably fine with the standard flair, but I don't know. I was wrong last week! Too confusing? Are those with custom flair worried about losing their status? Do you have a better system for distributing custom flair? Keep in mind that any idea based on internet points, age of account, popularity, and number of posts/comments aren't great measures of contribution and rewarding them with custom flair creates an incentive to shitpost, kiss the arses of popular people, avoid controversial statements, and spam. Edit to add: I forgot to mention the idea of a limited number of extra-special flairs that rotate. If you got the special flair, you could spec. it how you wanted, but there would be, say, 10 possible people at any time that would have it. I don't know how we would decided how to rotate it. Some kind of competition like a funny one-liner or something maybe?  Finally, here is a picture I took that is a picture stuck to a tree of a picture stuck to a tree. Because I took a photo of it, it is now a picture of a picture on a tree of a picture on a tree. Considering the message of the picture as well, I am truly staggered at the level of boomer posting here.