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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. Richard IV

    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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    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      If you want slashdot, you know where to find it.

      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.

      1. MrMcginty

        I get Slashdotted...

        ...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.

  3. Jeremy Chappell

    Icons

    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")

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Linux

      not sure about the rest ...

      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 :)

      1. Anonymous Coward
        Thumb Up

        I like the idea...

        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.

  4. Subliteratus

    Muppets!

    A nice picture of Fozzie Bear for when a person of organisation's slackness and incompetence can no longer be stoically borne.

    1. FozzyBear
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      HEY!

      Watch what you're sa....

      Hmmm my very own icon - I second that !

    2. Stuart Moore
      Happy

      Definitely a mupped icon...

      Although personally I'd go for Beaker

  5. Anonymous Coward
    Coat

    How about....

    ... a picture of a Eurofighter crashing & burning, specially for Lewis' articles?

  6. Greg J Preece

    Opera blah blah

    How about Opera ones. Instead of angel/devil, you could have one covered in speed bubbles, and one gagged...

  7. The Alpha Klutz

    icons

    A Back To The Future 1.21 gigawatts icon, caption: "needs moar jiggawatts".

    A Homer Simpson Homemade Prozac icon, caption: "needs more icecream".

    A "Can it run Crysis?" icon.

    A "Can it run Solitaire?" icon.

    A Vaseline icon.

  8. DJV Silver badge

    V for Vendetta icon

    Please please pretty please. Ah go on you know you want to...

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Thumb Up

      you mean you want...

      More Guy Fawks!

      1. Mike Flugennock

        more Guy Fawkes

        A bunch of us here have already mentioned the coolness of a Guy Fawkes Mask Icon, but another iconic image from "V For Vendetta" -- one which would better articulate rage -- would be that shot of the top of Big Ben being blasted away. What an awesome shot that was.

  9. Denarius
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    suggestions, my beloved

    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...

  10. Ninja Wabbit
    Welcome

    Horde and Alliance

    Horde and Alliance icons.

    For the HORDE!

    Also:

    - Facepalm

    - Newbie Alert

    - Recklessly Clueless and Cluelessly Reckless icons

    - WIN (or FTW) to counter FAIL

    1. sT0rNG b4R3 duRiD
      Thumb Down

      No Alliance icons, please....

      Sorry, I've just got to stop you there.

  11. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Not a member of The Register? Create a new account here.

    Forget icons, why not roll out the color coding system devised a decade ago into the comments pages

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/02/01/the_color_of_irony/

  12. iMess

    Need a Sarah Palin one

    Cos you know..

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Thumb Up

      how about..

      Tina Fey

  13. JeffyPooh
    Pint

    Beer glass good...

    ...now add red wine glass, white wine glass, various hard liquor glassware, etc.

    1. The Beer Monster
      Pint

      Beer.

      There is only beer. Anything else would be wrong.

    2. Rodrigo Valenzuela
      Thumb Up

      Hard liquour

      For the kind of stories that let you wishing for a stiff drink, either to erase the memory by killing those brain cells or because is friday and you realize that the weekend is ad portas and it looks more boring that staying in the office.

      R

  14. Number6

    BS

    A steaming turd icon, for declaring bullshit.

    How about a proper two-fingered salute too?

    A mushroom cloud to replace the rather tame and weak grenade - if you're going to have an explosive rant you want the biggest effect.

    A banana skin for those who've slipped up.

  15. A Non e-mouse Silver badge

    No more people

    No more people - just more generic ones. e.g. an Angle and a Devil.

    1. The Beer Monster

      Acute, right, obtuse?

      :nonchalant whistle:

  16. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Please add the icon 42...

    For things that just ARE! Like PI. The sky being blue, on this planet anyway.

  17. Anonymous Coward
    Pint

    The horned phone!

    - 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.

  18. Eric Crippen

    New Icons

    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.

    1. Red Bren
      Coat

      Dead Horse?

      Like this one?

  19. clean_state

    skeleton in the closet

    I want a "skeleton in the closet" icon. Or just a skeleton will do.

  20. Mark Malley
    Stop

    Thanks for thinking of the little people

    I'm quite happy with the selection, but the realm of good and evil does seem to ever be expanding.

  21. AceRimmer

    Kerching

    A big gold plated dollar/pound sign for those Kerching moments

  22. Anonymous Freetard
    Heart

    Chicken Little

    For all those "the sky is falling" pieces that El Reg enjoys so much. You know, all the Fukishima scare stories that Lester has been peddling ;)

    1. Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

      Re: Chicken Little

      On a practical note, I'd like an obnoxious EDITOR NEEDED icon for typos and such. Easier to spot which to act on and reject (with thanks if you're nice, and nowt if you're not).

      1. taxman
        Welcome

        Re: Chicken Little

        You mean like when the nice kind readers have made a bit of a boobie?

        Hey, there's a thought............

      2. Anonymous Coward
        Anonymous Coward

        Re: Practical note

        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.

  23. Select * From Handle

    Rebecca Black icon?

    With the letters FAIL over her head?

    i would like to see that hahah

    1. Mike Flugennock

      Rebecca Black icon

      Good idea, but you don't need the FAIL plastered over her. Usually, when one glimpses Rebecca Black, one instantly thinks FAIL.

  24. Youngdog

    How about this one

    http://worldpoliticsblog.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/dr_strangelove.jpg

    For anything DARPA/NWO related

    1. Anomalous Cowlard

      Yes,

      please.

  25. Pinkerton

    My suggestions...

    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

    1. Pete 2 Silver badge

      The default

      > I haven't read the article properly before posting my comments

      You'd have to make that the default, as everybody does that.

      p.s. you might have suggested that in the rest of your post, but I didn't read any more ....

  26. stucs201

    Something for laser discussions

    Deathstar? Shark?

  27. NoneSuch Silver badge

    My incoherent list

    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.

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Pirate

      copyright issues with use other peoples logos..

      but perhaps instead of hosting the image file if you just used a url that linked to it on the original site you wouldn't have any copyrighted material on this site...

      now where have I seen that defence before.. oh yeah pirate bay.

  28. Atonnis
    Happy

    So much...

    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.

    1. peter 5 Silver badge
      Coat

      *facepalm*

      attonis wrote:

      «The 'I'll get my coat'/'Mine's the one with the...' - everyone who uses it thinks they're funny, and they really arent.»

      Actually, that means it's *working*: just IGNORE thee comments with a COAT. Now I'll get mine - because, well, how could I not?

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