I feel this way too. Celebrating comments is a little too close to caring about internet points and the system for deciding the best ones will be too closely correlated with most upvoated and that really only means whoever got to the thread first a lot of the time. I don't consider it a good idea, I just want to get juices flowing. I just struggle to see what this place is lacking. Short of artwork that can go in the sidebar or something, we don't have a lot of things were everyone has an opportunity to submit an improvement. There was a time when custom flair was distributed using a raffle, but I find that too arbitrary. I suggest lowering standards simply because I don't see a lot of other options. I still have faith in the ingenuity of our members, though.