Turn off post icons, please.

[RangerWickett]

Of everything on this site, those blasted post icons are my least favorite. They're huge and unsightly, with their garish primary colors clashing against the subdued grays of the main board layout. They take forever to load when the site is slow like this, which means for about two minutes the page layout is messed up because the computer doesn't know what to do with the empty cells. And there are too many of them. Really, if you want to talk about Spycraft, put [Spycraft] in your thread title. All the post icons do is encourage people to post ambiguous thread titles.

We could get away with just three post icons:

* Urgent - for moderator and admin use only
* Announcement - for announcements not related to the site
* Help - for requests that may be a little off topic, like asking where to find a website on pet health

Can we please get rid of all these unnecessary images?

 

[ph34r]

I agree. They aren't very pretty and alot of people don't use them. Also alot of times it's pretty easy to see what the thread is about because of the title and the forum it's in.

 

[Cergorach]

I have to agree here, although i use them sometimes, i don't find them really helpful, i just hoped others did...

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

I'll throw in with the other side. I like seeing them because it definitely helps to label posts. Sometimes things are impossible to tell WHAT they're about without that icon.

 

[MerricB]

I like the icons, but the size and colours of some could be better chosen.

Cheers!

 

[Seonaid]

I don't use them either, and could definitely do without. Are they necessary? Not at all. If people just used appropriate thread titles, it would accomplish the same thing with less effort. I don't think we even need the three RW suggested.

 

[MerricB]

I find them most useful when I'm looking for a D&D Miniatures-related thread.

Yes, I know I start most of them, but not all!

Cheers!

 

[Ao the Overkitty]

I do find they make finding specific threads easier. If I know I'm looking for a gameday thread, it seems faster just to look at the pictures then to actually read all of the titles as I scroll down.

 

[blargney the second]

I don't use them either, and could definitely do without. Are they necessary? Not at all. If people just used appropriate thread titles, it would accomplish the same thing with less effort. I don't think we even need the three RW suggested.

Same here! I actually now use the icons as a way of determining which threads I don't read!

If they were less intrusive, I would mind them less...
-blarg

 

[Cheiromancer]

And is it just me, or do some old threads get random post icons? Maybe some quirk in the way the boards work?

I didn't like the post icons at first (spent a few days in stealth mode), but now I'm able to ignore them.