Honestly, I think small cosmetic awards (like emcee items) are most valuable in large communities, where people don't know most other users well. Since you can't become familiar with everyone, you rely on badges and such to tell you about people. With a smallish community like LB, where active users are usually well-known to each other, it's less relevant because you already know people in detail.
That's not to say that they're useless, just that they aren't nearly as valuable as they would be if LB had 10,000 active members.
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