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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. Havin_it

      RE: Facepalm

      I'd prefer *HEADDESK*, more visual.

      1. MrT
        Thumb Up

        Double Facepalm

        ...there's a neat picture of Picard and Riker simultaneously applying face to palm out there, "Double facepalm - when the fail is so strong, one facepalm isn't enough"

        http://dontyouhavetimetothink.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/ox2w_yk_f1vhaav5_bhqoe.jpg

        Might not shrink to an icon though.

  1. Z 1

    Also

    Where's the Lindsey Lohan angle?

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      You're proposing her as the new Paris then?

      Can't decide if that's an upgrade or a downgrade.

      On a practical note: Should that icon track the (ex-)PARIS (possibly-)LOHAN team's current whatchamacallit?

      1. BossHog

        You don't mess with the Lohan

        That is all.

  2. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    and also ...

    zuckerberg .... bitch

    1. Code Monkey

      Prob just the horns would be enough

      He doesn't have many fans on here (writers or we commentards). No need for a halo.

      1. Stoneshop

        Actually

        For me ust two icons, one a stylised set of horns, one a halo, would replace the entire set of Gates/Jobs/Zucky/Ellison/Schmidt/Brin/Page/whoever just fine. Whoever is hated or praised will be clear from the article (and whomever it isn't clear to is probably beyond help anyway).

    2. AshC

      nah..

      zuckerburg... socially inept dickwad.

      1. Bill B

        zuckerburg... socially inept dickwad ....

        but with tons of money.

        He probably doesn't care what we think .. he's richer than all of us (unless Ellison is a commentard as well)

  3. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Yes please

    Gates has retired, so should his icon: Sweaty Steve as his replacement, ta. And open up the rogue's gallery for Google, Facefuck, WackiWackiWorldOfWiki, etc

    The flame thingy doesn't immediately convey its purpose. Or indeed have anything to do with flaming.

    Paris to be replaced with Lindsay.

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Paris Hilton

      Replacing Paris?

      You cannot replace Paris! She's bloody non-disposable live-stock at Reg!

    2. dogged

      Wiki

      adequately covered by "Badgers".

    3. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Bigger conflagrations

      Nuclear mushroom cloud instead of the flame (or perhaps the pineapple).

      Not sure about LL. We definitely need a 'strumpet to lust after' icon, but who? The women I lust after are (probably) not, by and large, strumpets, and are therefore out of the frame.

      I forbear to comment about La Modératrice, though visions of a certain film starring a young Gérard Depardieu do arise unbidden in my mind.

      1. Mark 65

        'strumpet to lust after'

        What about Liz Hurley, she's fallen from grace. I mean, Shane Warne? Jeezuz.

        1. Mike Flugennock

          not that she's an object of lust, but...

          ...this "strumpet" discussion has got me thinking that for those articles that elicit a general reaction of "big damn' deal", we need an icon of Catherine Tate(?), that "Am I Bovvered?" chick.

          As far as a Strumpet To Lust After Icon, though, I'd rather like a shot of Carol Cleveland in her Monty Python prime, but I'm dating myself. (she really was ultra-hot, though)

      2. Stoneshop
        Flame

        @Bigger conflagrations

        "Nuclear mushroom cloud instead of the flame"

        Err, anything that even approaches a roasting-ish flamewar-y thingie, something that would barely register on Usenet Pyrometers, tends to get moderaticated into the great bitbucket of non-publication. But maybe the icon could stand for the writer's pre-self-redacted verbiage.

  4. Uncle Slacky Silver badge
    Welcome

    You could remove a few first to make room

    The thumbs up/down, stop/go and happy/sad face icons seem to serve pretty much the same purposes. Similarly WTF & FAIL.

    Also, seeing as Bill Gates is not longer at MS (at least in an active role) a set of Ballmer (& chair?) icons would be more appropriate.

    How about some Shuttleworth horns/halo icons?

  5. lIsRT

    multiples

    Could we have multiple icons per post?

    Sometimes more than one would be apt.

    1. LaeMing

      I was thinking similar.

      Then I realised entire posts could be constructed of strings of icons!

      Can't decide if I like that idea or not.

      1. Rafael 1

        THIS IS WHAT I'M SCREAMING ABOUT

        Make the title optional while you're at it.

        1. Mike Flugennock

          SPEAKING OF WHICH... uhh, speaking of which...

          A comment-sized version of the Screaming Janet Leigh from "Psycho" would also be great.

      2. Anonymous Coward
        Happy

        Multiples

        And if you make the icons (or short strings of them) somehow represent different phonemes then it's almost as if you could express speech using them!!1! Just think of the possibilities of that!!

  6. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    the google twins

    You have Jobs, you have Gates.... is the lack of Page and Brin down to them not being evil, or because they weren't born when the icon set was first implemented?

  7. jonathanb Silver badge
    Megaphone

    Monkey boy

    Saying as Bill Gates retired from Microsoft a few years ago, we need some sort of Steve Ballmer icons. Maybe some chocolate factory icons as well given the rise of Google since the last comment icons were done.

    1. LaeMing
      Happy

      At icon scale...

      ...I'm not sure Balmer looks that much different to Jobs? The existing icons may be able to serve as a generic Steve icon.

    2. Gotno iShit Wantno iShit

      Done to death laready

      Agreed get rid of Gates but lets not bother with Ballmer, get shot of Jobs too. Both are very boring now. Get rid of the celebutard too, the Paris because..... 'joke' has been done to death many times over.

      How about an Eye of Sauron picture with the popup text: Google - <strikethrough>Don't</strikethrough> be evil. That'd get a lot of use.

      Quite like the idea of a 'we need an icon for....' but I've no idea what it could look like

      1. Stoneshop
        Go

        Recursion

        We need an icon for "We need an icon for ... "

      2. Francis Boyle Silver badge

        Get rid of Paris?

        Just when the joke was becoming funny again?

        What am I talking about. The Paris joke is always funny.

        1. LinkOfHyrule
          Paris Hilton

          Don't take my Paris!

          Don't take my Paris! Please! Seriously, don't, she is responsible for most of my upvotes (experience points) thanks to all the cheap shots I have at her expense!

          The Frycon idea is good, quite interesting in fact - boom boom.

          Maybe replace the grammar Nazi one with the Guardian's logo?

          An icon representing Big Society? Maybe it could be a boarded up council library or a malnourished child?

          Picture of a fluffy kitten for hard hitting serious stories? I'm out of ideas now.

      3. Keith T

        Update Jobs Icons

        They have Jobs devil and angel, but the photos aren't good, don't look enough like him. (He is the last 2.)

        Update the Jobs icons with the new skinner Jobs.

    3. Mike Flugennock
      Thumb Up

      Chocolate Factory icon?

      A close-up of Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka would be ideal, yeah.

  8. Shark? what shark?

    (no) evil

    In homage to google, perhaps a red bordered circular traffic sign with the word evil crossed out in the centre.

    And to reflect reality, an identical sign without the crossing out.

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Stop

      To clarify

      A red bordered traffic sign with the word evil crossed out means "No (No Evil)".

      Without the crossing means "No Evil".

  9. JimC

    An Evil Google icon would be nice...

    "lets do evil"

  10. Schultz

    Falling off cliff

    We need the stick man stepping off the cliff while gazing at the sky.

    Happens all too often!

    1. Jamtea

      So where is the...

      Lindsey lohan angle?

      (and how do the mobile device users post with icons anyway!)

  11. Steven Raith

    FFS

    A FFS icon in a stop sign (in the same vein as the WTF icon) would go down swimmingly, as a riposte to commentards who show sandwich-degree levels of intellectual ability.

    Myself included, if I've had a couple of glasses of wine...

    Steven R

    1. Ammaross Danan
      Coat

      Nah

      Nah, FFS doesn't quite work as RTFA (A for Article, as opposed to the common "M" for Manual).

  12. Mage Silver badge

    Also

    Hello Kitty, Kitten, meerkat,

    dram of whiskey icon

    The current selection are ok apart from last four which are pointless

    Maybe a waste bin icon?

    Maybe change the text hover on some of them?

    1. ViagraFalls
      FAIL

      I have a dram!

      It's a dram or a whisky. Both are Scottish terms. Whiskey is not.

      1. John I'm only dancing
        FAIL

        Misguided dram

        Dram is not a Scottish term alone. it is in fact a sub division of the imperial measures.

      2. Mike Flugennock

        A Dram? A Whisk(e)y? M'eh.

        Would that be what we Colonials call a "shot"? In that case, yeah; a Shot Of Whiskey Icon would be good, though it'd be a bit redundant as we already have the Pint Of Beer Icon.

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  13. Jacob Lipman
    Go

    A tit le is required

    -A "WIN" icon to go along with the "FAIL" icon - perhaps a bit of meme use is in order, with the use of Patrick Stewart's image as the background?

    -A middle finger icon to go with the thumbs-up and thumbs-down gestures. Suppose that might be mildly NSFW.

    -A picture of our favorite Moderatrix in full black leather regalia, wagging her finger. For... Hrm. Forum reasons. Communication. Yes.

    -A cross-eyed face, to indicate confusion.

    -A picture of Steve Jobs with steam pouring from his ears. He gets mad a lot.

    -The "none" icon should be replaced by the image of a clergywoman in full habit, because puns.

    1. Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)

      Re: A tit le is required

      - A wanker icon. For wankers.

      1. Eponymous Cowherd
        Coat

        Just use the thumbs up icon

        and squint.

      2. Jacob Lipman
        Happy

        Re:Re: A tit le is required

        I like this idea. Can it be an animated GIF?

      3. Code Monkey

        Wanker

        In honour of Reg's April Fools story, could we have an iPhone iCon for wankers?

      4. Wize

        Re wanker icon

        Good idea, shame we couldn't get away with that one or my idea of...

        A cock waving icon - for all those posters claiming theirs is bigger or better (eg operating system, games console, smart phone)

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