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Post by redbrain on Dec 6, 2007 14:28:36 GMT
I've noticed that, when one looks at a forum, there's a little icon by each thread title - on the left hand side. Sometimes it's a pentagram, sometimes a moving yellow thing (not sure what it's meant to be) and sometimes a bat with flapping wings. Those are the only three I've noticed. I was wondering what (if anything) was their significance.
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Post by Calenture on Dec 6, 2007 20:20:28 GMT
You know I've been wondering about some of those icons since - oh, about 2004, when this site and mine collided?
I imagine the moving icon means an 'ongoing' thread, as opposed to one that's been 'locked' - but I have no idea about the pentagrams. Recently I haven't seen the bat animated gif, which I think usually had 'logged' beside it - suggesting one's PC had been identified by cookies?
I suppose we'll have to leave it to the Janitor of Lunacy to tell us.
Anyway, good question! ;D
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Post by redbrain on Dec 7, 2007 13:50:36 GMT
You know I've been wondering about some of those icons since - oh, about 2004, when this site and mine collided? I imagine the moving icon means an 'ongoing' thread, as opposed to one that's been 'locked' - but I have no idea about the pentagrams. Recently I haven't seen the bat animated gif, which I think usually had 'logged' beside it - suggesting one's PC had been identified by cookies? I suppose we'll have to leave it to the Janitor of Lunacy to tell us. Anyway, good question! ;D The Janitor of Lunacy is still tight-lipped on the matter. The bat was next to the Of Bondlings and Blesh thread yesterday. Maybe it's there to imply that I'm batty. |
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Post by Dr Terror on Dec 7, 2007 16:46:05 GMT
The yellow thing is a flame, so I guess that means that topic is HOT! And perhaps the bat means the topic is flying.  |
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Post by redbrain on Dec 8, 2007 16:44:13 GMT
Ah! I hadn't guessed that the yellow thing is a flame. Very clever! Thank you!
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Dec 9, 2007 8:44:35 GMT
I wondered about that too. Does hot mean - lascivious, current, risqué or viewed by a lot of members?
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Post by dem on Dec 9, 2007 9:01:12 GMT
Charles is spot on. I can't remember how it's set but it's either ten or twenty posts and the subject is hot. When you get the groovy little bat flapping away it's scorching.
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Post by redbrain on Dec 9, 2007 19:33:51 GMT
I wondered about that too. Does hot mean - lascivious, current, risqué or viewed by a lot of members? I think it means with a lot of replies - although some of the other possibilities are more interesting. |
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Post by redbrain on Dec 18, 2007 12:00:34 GMT
On a related matter, I've been wondering about the little icon by users online. Is it just me - or is it a mooning bottom?
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Post by Calenture on Dec 18, 2007 12:47:42 GMT
And did you ever see the icon which appeared beside Google search at the original site? here |
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Post by dem on Dec 18, 2007 14:12:57 GMT
Ah yes, that will be one of the Bride's before she turned her attentions to turning our flat into Notre Dame with her terrifying gargoyle sculptures ... I've hitched a new version of the custom search engine to this one, Rog. Under the banner: it covers this board, the old one and the Vault 'site'. Give it a try! |
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Post by weirdmonger on Dec 18, 2007 21:54:07 GMT
That's one striking picture. I once knew someone who got the sack for photocopying his bum at an office party. One moment of madness and the rest of his life on the dole.
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Post by redbrain on Dec 19, 2007 18:08:42 GMT
That's one striking picture. I once knew someone who got the sack for photocopying his bum at an office party. One moment of madness and the rest of his life on the dole. I expect that the girl in the animated picture has a nicer bum than your ex-colleague. Perhaps the chance of being sacked is in inverse proportion to the lovliness of one's bottom. |
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Post by dem on Dec 20, 2007 8:24:56 GMT
Do you think so?  It's 'political correctness' gone mad! |
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Post by redbrain on Dec 20, 2007 11:06:13 GMT
Not so much political correctness, perhaps, as bottom line correctness.  |
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