Little Icons on Forum Page

[BigFurryMonster]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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 But on a forum like Something Awful, they are much more useful since the default ones have been replaced by wider tags that are used to mark the contents of the thread: "Computers" "Politics" "Games" "Cars" etc.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]

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

[DrSpike]

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.