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BigFurryMonster is offline BigFurryMonster
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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 is offline Thirgaral
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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 is offline FrustratedPoet
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Mar 2002
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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 is offline Skanky Burns
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Aug 2001
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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.
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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 But on a forum like Something Awful, they are much more useful since the default ones have been replaced by wider tags that are used to mark the contents of the thread: "Computers" "Politics" "Games" "Cars" etc.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 is offline BigFurryMonster
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Maybe they should drop those smilies... I've never even looked at them (except when I started this thread).
DrSpike is offline DrSpike
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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.
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