Special WordPress treatment?

Warning: this post may contain just a hint of bitterness toward the treatment of so called A listers.

Want your own individual header for your wordpress.com blog?  One of your very own choosing?  Well too bad, you’re out of luck.  That is unless your name happens to be Scoble. 

Since when did WordPress treat people with such bias?  I was first alerted to this via John Evans who has been slightly more polite than I’m going to be about this.

Call me petty if you will – I am aware that this is only a header we’re talking about – but it’s the principal of it.  From reading the (masses of) comments to a three word post I gather this is Scoble’s first venture into the world of WordPress.  Surely if you’re going to ‘reward’ somebody with a feature that nobody else has, the person getting said reward should have gotten it through loyalty and service to the WordPress brand, rather than because they’re included in the ‘A listers’ club?  I can think of many more people who give a lot of their time voluntarily who would have been far more deserving.  People like Lorelle or Podz to name but a few.

I’m disappointed.  I’m disappointed that such bias amongst users has already shown its face here.  I’m disappointed in the people who made the decision to exclude all the everyday users (who make up the majority of present and future users).