ajapayne providing a nice little bit of additional space
I'm undecided - it does use up a line or two of vertical display space which is very much at a premium but on the other hand it does delimit the discussion title as you say.
Also I've noticed a wee artifact, possibly because that decoration is an SVG, that when opening the page initially the titles and decorations are briefly rendered at an enormous size before they are shrunk to their specified sizes (spotted using Firefox and Chrome):
