That's a terrible solution; while they're clever, and some are even nice, the inconsistency in interface for different subreddits is jarring, and the vast majority of users will not customize their interface at all. Pick a nice default interface, standardize it across the board, and maybe then let users pick a clever fun one that might be actually pretty good if they want. Having completely different interface widgets and navigation by default on different sections of the same site is probably a bad idea.
And power users use http://redditenhancementsuite.com/ suite, and http://userstyles.org/styles/browse/reddit
But at the end up the day it's about reading and not decoration, changing the UI would be a disaster of Digg proportions.