OK, I doesn't want to sound like negatron, neither I'm Council member, but, probably, someone must be first to say that...

Texrat, while overall idea of catalyzing useful discussion sounds OK, I don't like idea of handling (even single) device from "Community Awards" pool (awards from major contributions to Community) to "random comment lottery". It just isn't right - we'll take device from hypothetical least lucky person, who contributed something *great* for Community over long period of time, and give it to randomly chosen commenter in Your blog/site/whatever? Of course I acknowledged, that spam/unrelated comments won't count in lottery, but still...

Don't get me wrong again - I'm perfectly sure that Your intentions are clear and good, and I'm not suggesting, that anything "malicious" is going on. It just seems to me, that it isn't justified to give device away in such... Well, way, and I don't see any benefits for the Community, *after* such random person receive device.

/Estel