Holy wars
A generic holy wars icon to replace the Penguin, Gates & Jobs set. {Possibly something like the crozier St Dogbert used to drive out the demons of stupidity}.
It'll give Opera users something to use ;)
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They heavily bias posts, also meaning anonymous posts basically remain unseen. Also, their use of ever-increasing amounts of javascript and other tomfoolery mean I rarely even bother to read any comments any longer.
I'm sure that's a wonderful idea sir. Let's see, this here's sir's coat, I believe. Good evening sir.
...using 'Anonymous Coward' entries most weeks, they really don't care who submits or how, since they log IP addresses and use those to enforce temporary bans where needed.
Though I admit, I too am sick of the endless dicking about with the comments.
New icon: Robbie The Robot ("***k off, I'm having a geek moment"), to limit the use of the 'Reg gravestone' whenever an article on geek movies/TV etc goes up.
Inverted Facebook "F" - for a fail on or about Facebook.
Ditto Twitter. (Fail Whale?)
A Stormtrooper (Nazi or Starwars, doesn't matter).
Replace Bill with "that sweaty, over excited bloke"?
Where the heck is RMS?
A "broken brain".
Buzz Lightyear (self dilution - "You are a Toy!").
Yoda ("impenetrable marketing speak this is, hmm, hmm?").
Plug lying next to socket (user error).
BSoD.
Joypad.
Slide rule (for "it was better in my day", or "isn't this browser just like a terminal?" - an "old fart's icon")
but a "Slide rule" icon would probably do quite well.
Possibly do want to limit the good/evil icons, an Evil penguin might in the long run be a better icon ... or similarly good/evil Google, good/evil browser,etc ...
I thought about suggesting an Evil/Good FSF (free software foundation) ... but it might look to much like the FFS! proposal :)
of an evil penguin icon.
Could go for a BSD icon as well. Though if you pick Beastie, it might be a little hard to tell if he's a good Beastie, or an evil Beastie.
While not strictly under the purview of icons, changing the title and body requirement to just one or the other and not loading a new page when clicking on the thumbs up/down buttons would be nice too.
Oompa Loopas for chocolate factory. With or without red slashed circle.
Suggest Eye of Sauron only for snooping governments.
swinging door (outwards) for "its Friday and not on call " ? Not to be confused with I'll get my coat...
I'll second the sky gazing cliff step off
Replace the Gates of hell with the yacking yatchsman Larry E
PHB type icon for dumb and dumber management (anything to do with large corporates and Governments ?)
Toy train for bleeding obvious aka Clue Train.
Third coffee icon suggestion. By morning tea I have usually downed 6 cups and need a pick me up as the effect is wearing off.
Please leave Paris alone. We need some traditions.
Back to the ubuntu abomination now...
- The Horned Phone(tm), for those ranting IT moments regarding our users. Please release it for our perusal. Plus the final art is already complete.
- A capital red G with a devil's tail. You can figure it out. Make it blue if red is not suitable.
- The radioactivity Icon with the subtitle pop-up "Prolonged exposure to this comment may cause life span reduction" or sorts.
- I liked the playmobil idea.
The Picard facepalm would work, but I'd rather have a Kirk facepalm if one exists.
As far as actual face icons. They could be used for a year or two and then a fresh batch voted in. I'm for Paris being a permanent icon though. Maybe an Einstein or Betty White to balance it out.
A dead horse icon.
Cartoon baby face crying (squirtin' tears).
A ninja (in star wars p.j.'s if the res was good enough).
A picture of dog poo or Mr. Hanky.
Pink elephant.
A knight with no arms or legs.
Sheep icon.
Sheldon Cooper/Penny icons.
Skunk.
Yesh, that might be useful. Buuut... I don't really want any of that in my inbox, as my comments don't go there already. And I do feel fairly strongly about your workflows --your rules, fine, I'll stick to your script-- not also interfering on mine --my rules, my script, and you can stay well out of it, thanks.
So a "ta" rejection-notice would be useful. I mean, if you're going to abuse the rejection button for that, might as well add the function required to mark that rejection with just what function it was rejected for.
If not, then we'd better stick to the standing practice to send notes to the author using the link-and-webform and no icon is required, or useful.
I can't be arsed to read through all these comments so there's a good chance this has already been said and I'm contributing nothing but noise to the discussion:
- A 'La la la not listening' icon
- An 'I haven't read the article properly before posting my comments so it's probable I'm commenting on something you didn't actually say but only what I thought you said' icon
- An 'I can't be arsed to read through all these comments so there's a good chance this has already been said and I'm contributing nothing but noise to the discussion' icon
Get rid of Bill Gates angel / devil. He retired years ago.
The aforementioned Assange angel / devil sounds like a winner to me.
No to Facebook, No to Twitter, No to any flash in the pan website fad.
Change the terminator icon from "Your foster parents are dead" to "AI is coming and may already be here"
Dr Stephen Hawking in place of the round blue gent with the specs.
A generic angel and a devil.
The Piratebay logo to mark Freetards.
You have Paris, add Lohan... and Biel, and Mother Theresa.
Eye of Sauron AND a Ring.
No to Zuck. A Reg icon is a thing of honor and he simply does not deserve it.
You have an exclamation point, but no question mark???
A "No Suitable Icon Present" icon.
Last a "Pie-in-the-sky" for all these half-baked ideas that keep floating to the surface.
Get rid of:
Paris (that was amusing for all of a week)
The 'I'll get my coat'/'Mine's the one with the...' - everyone who uses it thinks they're funny, and they really arent.
The blue 'may contain scientific stuff' - does anyone ever use it?
Web2.0 made of badger's paws - sorry, it's just stupid.
The pictures of people with halos and horns - focus on companies more than individuals.
The gravestone - really? why is it there?
Add in:
Company love/hate logos.
Bacon - because it's bacon and bacon is only for things that are awesome...like bacon...mmm...bacon.
Something that says 'I originally wrote a 4 paragraph post to explain this, but then deleted it all and just wrote this one line because that's all you'd understand anyway.'
Facepalm
A Toilet - because that's where this tripe should be flushed.
A TARDIS - there are plenty of comments that either go on about historical stuff, or future stuff.