Thread icons

[Sergiy Radyakin]

Thread icons contain a handful of icons that can be used in the forum to signal about the intent of the post.
So far about half of them are smiles, which don't bring a lot of meaning when used.

I wonder if the set of icons can be strategically formed by the forum administrators so as to carry more meaning.
I believe there is a standard mod for this purpose:
https://www.phpbb.com/customise/db/m...s_enhancement/

Perhaps the following categories:

• bug report or strange behavior report;
• feature request;
• compatibility question (versions, platforms, reproducibility, etc);
• new command announcement;
• question on a particular (well-known) dataset;
• algorithm/method question;
• data manipulation question (all sort of transformations, generation, etc);
• estimation/analysis question;
• graphics and reporting question;
• beginner's "don't know where to start from" question;
• particular command problem (of interest to mostly people using this command and the author);
• ... suggest other categories ...

Thank you, Sergiy Radyakin

[Nick Cox]

Sergiy: I don't want to stop anyone decorating their posts to taste -- although I personally only use smileys when other people go overboard with them.

But my guess is that your chance of getting people to adopt -- or to recognise -- a complicated scheme is minimal. I need to look this up before I post? If someone uses one of these, I am supposed to check what they mean? Seems a lot easier just to read the post.