@Keith T
Pinocchio is good.
Widely understood
Timeless.
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 …
The icon I most often want? How about a little can of spam? I recommend one of those ovalish ones, seen from above and tilted at an angle, with "Spam" visible on the top. You may think I'm fixated on the problem, but the Internet is really going to hell in a handcart these days, and I think the spammers are leading the parade of scammers and associated criminals. They're certainly operating on the largest scale.
Perhaps a little white hat icon for comments related to good and ethical hackers, and a black hat for the obvious usage?
Perhaps a six-shooter icon for comments about the currently increasingly lawless state of things?
How about a money icon for comments related to economics? Are you up to an animated icon that rotates or switches from the euro to the pound to the dollar to the yen (to a couple of others)? Maybe a morphing animated icon?
I'm trying to think of an icon for lawyers and legalese... Perhaps a mess of spaghetti? Or would that just be taken as the 'bad code' icon?
We posterbois certainly know how to get our priorities right, don't we? Could we please have an irony-alert icon - for those who tend to miss that kind of thing? The joke-alert icon (although often useful) doesn't always fit the bill, if one is trying to be a *little* bit subtle.
Some more icons would make it more informative and entertaining = fun. So go ahead and add some, I like the idea!http://www.theregister.co.uk/Design/graphics/icons/comment/thumb_up_32.png
Also, if possible, I would like to add a Scott ish icon from here: (example)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXIXIfYTBOE
Oh, and we seriously need a 'police state' icon
And another thing -- couldn't we have the option of a Spitfire icon for comments?
Can we have a "facepalm" icon, please?
Can we have a radiation icon ?
We need an "atomic mushroom" icon...
Where's the 'fish with legs' icon? james oshea 201009271414
Where's the 2 cents icon? h6 201009290523
Can we have a Guy Fawkes Mask icon now, please?
Where's the Evil Eric icon, ffs? Bilgepipe 201009300856
we don't have a towel icon.. @ Stumpy20101004
Can we please have a turd icon?
And can we have a Monkey icon please ?
When are you adding a spade and hole icon??! @Steve Martins 201010081110
Where's the 'not sure' icon?@JB201010122148
Can we have a fire extinguisher icon please?@Michael.H.F.Wilkinson201010121539
Can I have an icon of a hand from the Deep South of America where there's a thumb
at the top and the bottom to indicate that it goes both ways?@Ihre Papiere Bitte!!201010141551
" there is no Gram icon ".@Disco-Legend-Zeke201010150926
(Hey! El Reg! Why isn't there a tinfoil hat icon, eh?)@James O'Shea201010192151
Where is that shoot-yourself-in-the-foot icon?@Destroy All Monsters201010220140
Posted whilst a bit pissed icon @bugalugs ( a fallen bottle or can )
how about a FYI icon ? many good ones in others' posts above too.
I'm thinking something a bit more general purpose.
1) Total fanbois *completely* under the control of Apple/Google/Linux/Microsoft/etc
2)User/site/company totally pwnd by virus/worm attack.
I give you the Gimp face mask from Pulp Fiction.
Distinctive.
Stood the test of time.
Leaves people in no doubt what you think of them.
We need an icon for use when responding to commentards who demonstrate a failure to take in information contained in the article or available via a link within in the article.
Maybe Penelope Cruz 'cos of her role in "Abre los ojos" - English title "Open Your Eyes"?
Also, with various cloudy networky type things breaking down recently maybe we need a titsup icon of some sort. I'll let you decide how literally to interpret it.
Most of them should be *timeless*. XX is good/XX is bad. Well there are *plenty* of people who divide opinions like that. The saints/sinners list changes over time (Larry Ellison and Peter Norton would probably be on it and might still deserve to be) .but the fact they divide peoples *opinions* on them *never* changes.
I'm not sure how to handle this one but perhaps a general "Halo" and "Horns with trident" pair (with who should be wearing them depending on what the stories about) might do it.
Question mark for "I don't get what the poster/author is trying to say or why"
Gimp mask from Pulp Fiction for both "you're a total fanbois" and their account/website/company has been pwnd and is completely under outside control. Either you're a gimp or you've been gimped.
I'd like something a bit more timeless than the Paris Hilton one but I'm not sure who. They'd have to be well know for being vacuous on both sides of the Atlantic. Marilyn Monroe perhaps?
Marie Antoniete with "Let them eat cake" has the right tone but might be a bit high brow.
Remember *Nothing* dates faster than ideas about the future.