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We at the El Reg Central Overseeing Commenter Soviet are considering whether to expand the available spread of comments icons to include some news images - the better for you, our beloved readers, to express yourselves with wit and elegance. Our existing comments icons If you reckon we need some fresh images to add to the …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
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    Where is the Annon?!

    Guy Fawks because we are all annons!

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  2. min

    can we...

    ..have an icon in honour of Mike Godwin, for everyone who wants to introduce Nazi comparisons into their comments? i'd like that.

    oh, and one of Jobs in drag.

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  3. Anonymous South African Coward Bronze badge

    facepalm

    facepalm icon

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  4. Spartacus

    Sheep (in a vacuum) - Reg Standards Icon

    Post complies with official El Reg standard units of measurement.

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  5. Anonymous Coward
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    POPCORN

    We need popcorn for those stories that we know will generate 100's of comments and deteriorate into a slanging match.

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    1. DJV Silver badge
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      POPCORN...

      Also known as a ZDNet icon </sarcasm>

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  6. Samuel Williams

    I remember when the internet was just fields

    How about something for reminiscing, those were the days, etc?

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      Correction icon..

      I remember when the internet was just tubes.

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    2. Admiral Grace Hopper
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      Excellent Idea

      I propose a punched card.

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    3. Mike Flugennock
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      ...when the Internet was just fields...

      Perhaps an icon of a TRS80, or a BBC Micro, or Doug Englebart.

      "I remember when our Admin used to get us all up at 3am and make us lick the Internet clean with our tongues -- but you tell the youth of today that, and they'd never believe you...!"

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      1. Stoneshop
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        Two tin cans and a piece of string

        Or a typewriter

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        1. Anonymous Coward
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          Or an acoustic coupler and an ASR-33?

          A body is also required, but frankly the title has entirely captured the idea I wanted to put across already.

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  7. Eponymous Cowherd

    While we are at it.....

    Being able to sort posts by thumbs up / thumbs down would be nice.

    Which reminds me. There isn't a "pretty please" / grovel icon.....

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    1. Keith T
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      On knees praying? Hands clasped in prayers?

      On knees praying? Hands clasped in prayers?

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  8. G C M Roberts

    how about...

    Given topics of much commentness of late:

    A 50s style atom and a mushroom cloud

    Some Richard Dawkins and Pope ones

    and other thoughts are

    Definitely bring that Sir Humphrey to the forums

    Perhaps a pile of cash icon too

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    1. Stoneshop
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      "Definitely bring that Sir Humphrey to the forums"

      Lyttelton or Appleby?

      (yes)

      Both are known for spouting vast tracts of nonsense with a straight face, but only one of them does so for comical purposes. So, which one is it?

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  9. Pete 2 Silver badge

    Fondle this

    I'm not a great icon user as few of them "speak to me". In fact I'd have to say I don't know what most of the ones with a face on them mean - or are for. They're too small and too busy to have an immediate impact.

    We keep getting told that tablets are the way of the future, providing we keep taking them. So I'd suggest a fondleslab icon - I'll leave the details of what, exactly, should be fondled up to t'committee.

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  10. Efros

    Controversial

    Retire Paris, she's given good service (nudge nudge) but is well past her sell by. New Charlie Sheen Nutjob icon. I think a lube icon of some kind vaseline, astroglide, just to hint that we may be getting shafted.

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  11. Marky W

    Dunces hat icon

    For responding to spectacularly dumb comments.

    Like this: http://bit.ly/hVxUVo

    Alt Text: 'I believe your understanding of the issue is somewhat lacking'

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    1. Marky W
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      One more

      A cartoon singing whale for marketing tomfoolery.

      Alt text: 'This comment comes with an overpowering smell of incense'

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  12. ViagraFalls

    Facepalm

    I second the request for a Picard icon. Facepalm ftw.

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  13. Anonymous Coward
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    orbital cheese Icon

    For Elon Musk related stuff.

    Tesla, spacex, paypal etc. and other cheesey needs.

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    1. Mike Flugennock
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      re: orbital cheese icon

      "For Elon Musk related stuff.

      Tesla, spacex, paypal etc. and other cheesey needs..."

      Oh, yeah... that would be a Wallace & Gromit On The Moon Icon.

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    2. Stoneshop
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      Space

      Wallace and Gromit on the moon.

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  14. LaeMing

    @ The multitude of "IT personality" icons

    Thinking move the personality icons to the bottom two (new) rows, which would allow 12. Second from bottom row is their 'angelic' form and bottom their 'demonic' form in the same order, so they are above/below each other. May allow that number of personality icons without appearing cluttered. YMMV, but might be worth a mock-up to see.

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  15. Anonymous Coward
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    not only do we need Annon

    But we also need more Facepalm

    maybe some more cow bell too!

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  16. HFoster

    Kettle of fuckery

    As suggested by Sarah Bee and seconded by me on the story of the Asian sex-orcist story from last year.

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    1. Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)
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      Re: Kettle of fuckery

      Ooh, and we definitely need an ODFO.

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      1. Francis Boyle Silver badge
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        ODFO

        FTW

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    2. TeeCee Gold badge
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      @HFoster

      I haven't got the slightest Scooby what a "Kettle of fuckery" is or might look like, but it made me laugh so hard I upvoted this one anyway.

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      1. Mike Flugennock
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        "Kettle Of Fuckery"?

        I think that may be related to "clownshit".

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  17. moonface

    My Suggestions

    mushroom cloud - no fukushima problem here icon.

    Striesand's nose - for the effect icon.

    Darwin and Christian Fish icons.

    Hitler cat - Godwins law

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      Seconding the kitler

      We should likely have a godwin icon and a kitler sounds as inoffensive as it's likely to get.

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    2. The Beer Monster
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      I will happily donate my Kitler to the cause.

      Well, a picture of him, anyway.

      Poor little furry bugger.

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    3. stucs201
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      limited +1

      for the evolve/darwin fish and nuke cloud.

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    4. Keith T
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      you mentioned hitler -- you loose

      Twice, by directly mentioning hitler, and secondly by implication when bringing up godwin's law.

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      1. Goat Jam
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        Paris Hilton

        Loose?

        Loose what?

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      2. Stoneshop
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        FAIL

        @Keith T

        Go read Godwin's Law, OK? It's not just mentioning Hitler or Nazis that invoke it.

        (this post invisibly adorned with the Grammar Gestapo icon next to the visible Fail one)

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  18. TRT Silver badge

    RoTM

    Rise of the Machines, and have you got any non-alcoholic beverages?

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  19. TeeCee Gold badge
    Happy

    Just read this article.....

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/20/black_threats/

    I'd like to nominate a plain, black square with the word "Friday" written on it (I'm torn between plain white and dayglo multicoloured horror for the text here, although Comic Sans has to be the font), to be used when making a point about any meejah atrocity. Like that one.

    I'd also like to nominate Ms Black for an award for providing us with a handy yardstick to measure crapness with.

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    1. Stoneshop
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      ISAGN

      "I'd also like to nominate Ms Black for an award for providing us with a handy yardstick to measure crapness with."

      Which should definitely find its way into the Reg Standards. A first estimate sets the Black in the order of 100k dogturds.

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  20. Amazon Wageslave
    Welcome

    I for one welcome our icon-modifying overlords

    How about good/evil Amazon? I would suggest Jeff Bezos, but despite working here for 5 years I don't have a clue what he looks like.

    And on the subject of improving el Reg even more, any chance of moving the "back to the forum" link on the up/down vote page? Using a netbook means scrolling down past the comment to get to the link; it'd be nice if it was beside the "we're glad you liked this post" text. Pretty please?

    Using the browser back button means the thumbs up/down isn't updated unless you refresh the page.

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  21. Code Monkey

    Father Ted and Dougal

    Down with that sort of thing.

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    1. sT0rNG b4R3 duRiD
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      Careful now

      Mmmm.. might be lost on more than a few though, I suspect.

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      1. Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)
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        Re: Careful now

        Lots of stuff around here is lost on many.

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  22. ShaggyDoggy

    and

    a JEDWARD icon to be used to signify the total pointlessness

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  23. AshC

    A horse icon.

    - I'm on one.

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  24. Marvin the Martian
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    Swamp Castle, plus dustbin

    There's often enough a pointless and repetitive story, of human endeavour pointed the wrong way. Which deserves a swamp castle.

    Obligatory quote:

    <<When I first came here, this was all swamp. Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built in all the same, just to show them. It sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up. And that's what you're going to get, lad, the strongest castle in all of England. >>

    And I second earlier call for a dustbin, as "good riddance" is an often-relevant emotion.

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  25. Anonymous Coward
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    The title is required, and must contain letters and/or digits.

    A more welcome change to the comments system would be the removal of the title field from the list of required fields.

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      I wonder why the post was downvoted?

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