Little Icons on Forum Page

BigFurryMonster · June 3, 2003, 08:56

Can anyone explain to me what the little icons in front of the threads in the Forums mean? There seem to be:

An arrow
A question mark
An exclamation mark
A dotted envelope
An envelope
A red envelope with a letter in it
A cross (probably for a poll)
A smiley
Something that looks like a shopping list

Thanks in advance!

Thirgaral · June 3, 2003, 09:05

Arrow is a moved thread...
A dotted envelope is a thread you've posted in...
An envelope is a thread that hasn't been posted in for a while...
A red envelope is a thread that has recently been posted in...

not sure about the others...

FrustratedPoet · June 3, 2003, 09:26

I think....

arrow = moved thread

yellow envelope = a thread with no new posts since you last visited.

yellow envelope with dot = a thread you've posted in, but that hasn't had any new posts since you last visited.

red envelope = a thread with new posts.

red envelope with dot = a thread you've posted in with new posts.

all of the blue icons = entirely optional and picked by the thread starter. They work pretty much like emoticons, you have to decide for yourself what they mean.

Skanky Burns · June 3, 2003, 18:38

Although the red/yellow envelope distinction does not always work, particularly if you use the forum jump feature often. But it is a good indicator.

ixnay · June 3, 2003, 20:16

The envelopes are marked thread indicators. The blue icons are Thread Icons, picked by the thread starter. Here, they're quite useless. But on a forum like Something Awful, they are much more useful since the default ones have been replaced by wider tags that are used to mark the contents of the thread: "Computers" "Politics" "Games" "Cars" etc.

There's about 20-30 of these icons there.

BigFurryMonster · June 4, 2003, 03:07

Maybe they should drop those smilies... I've never even looked at them (except when I started this thread).

DrSpike · June 4, 2003, 06:11

Quote:

Originally posted by BigFurryMonster
Maybe they should drop those smilies... I've never even looked at them (except when I started this thread).

Sometimes they can show what kind of thread it is.............but for the most part they admittedly get little use.