"GENERIC"

[Michael Morris]

Is it necessary to put the icon on top of every comment? I find that distracting, and how often are the comments on a different topic than the original post? Well, OK, but they're not supposed to be.

My experience has been that having a "generic" icon encourages people to find more appropriate icons. After a couple of weeks the generic icons should become sorta rare.

BTW, it's possible to sort by icon. If you like a certain topic it makes it easier to find posts on it when all the posts have a certain icon.

 

[Argent Silvermage]

Is it necessary to put the icon on top of every comment? I find that distracting, and how often are the comments on a different topic than the original post? Well, OK, but they're not supposed to be.

I have to agree. as soon as I saw that on top of my posts It made it seem that my posts were being looked upon as somehow inferior.

 

[Len]

So you're saying that only the "Generic" icon gets repeated in every follow-up comment? Sort of as a punishment?

No, that's not it. In this thread it starts out with a "3.0" icon but the follow-up comments have "Generic". Can't we just assume that all the follow-ups are talking about 3.0 without cluttering up the page?

 

[Michael Morris]

So you're saying that only the "Generic" icon gets repeated in every follow-up comment? Sort of as a punishment?

No, that's not it. In this thread it starts out with a "3.0" icon but the follow-up comments have "Generic". Can't we just assume that all the follow-ups are talking about 3.0 without cluttering up the page?

No, there's a way to turn it off. I don't know it though.

 

[BryonD]

Is there ANY chance we can go back to a blank?

Please.

I've never commented on anything of a style nature before becauase it really makes no difference to me.

But that hideous scar piled up on the page is so distracting that it is difficult to skim the topics.

Please, it was not remotely broken.

 

[Len]

No, there's a way to turn it off. I don't know it though.

Well, you figured out how to turn it on today...

 

[Michael Morris]

Well, you figured out how to turn it on today...

No, Russ did.

 

[d20Dwarf]

Is there ANY chance we can go back to a blank?

Please.

I've never commented on anything of a style nature before becauase it really makes no difference to me.

But that hideous scar piled up on the page is so distracting that it is difficult to skim the topics.

Please, it was not remotely broken.

I agree with this. I can no longer just scan the page and see where the new threads end. I actually have to look, which I don't really want to do. Plus it's just unnecessary. Not every thread needs a tag, that's why we have forums and thread titles.

Really annoying from a user standpoint, and useless.

 

[Tewligan]

I'm with BryonD. Boo to the 'Generic' tag!

 

[johnsemlak]

I understand it's experimental, but I'll throw in my vote against this default generic tag.

I think most people do use the appropriate tags when necessary, more often than not at least.