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El Reg deploys (extra) comment icons
Your guide to use and abuse
The commentators among you will have noticed that El Reg recently deployed a set of 11 "comment icons" (now expanded to 23) allowing you, our beloved readers, to flag your two bits' worth with a suitable image.
However, it seems there's a bit of confusion as to what pic should accompany which sort of outburst, so here are our guidelines:
Thumbs-up: I approve of this. | |
Thumbs-down: I do not approve of this. | |
Stop: Stop this nonsense forthwith. | |
Go: Proceed with this nonsense at flank speed. | |
Happy: I’m very happy and wish to express my contentment. | |
Unhappy: I'm very unhappy and wish to express my discontent. | |
Luurv: I am in love with this writer/commentator and want to have his/her babies. | |
Flame: I’m pretty pissed off and what follows is accompanied by steam coming out of my ears, etc, etc. | |
Adios: I’m so furious that I am removing El Reg from my bookmarks. | |
Where’s the IT angle?: This is self-explanatory. Feel free to add comment about how when I was a lad The Register had proper tech coverage, etc, etc. | |
Where’s the Paris Hilton angle?: Stuff the IT angle... | |
I’ll get me coat: Warning: Unforgivably corny comment follows. | |
Joke alert: Warning: Comment may contain irony or sarcasm, and should be viewed accordingly. | |
General alert: All hands man the pumps, run for the hills, batten down the hatches, and so forth. | |
Black helicopters: I hear the distant sound of black helicopters and am off to my Montana mountain bunker complex. | |
Boffin alert: May contain highly technical content requiring degree-level education or above. | |
Pirates ahoy!: Prepare for boarding, me young buckaroos. | |
Alien: There is an extraterrestrial explanation for all of this and here it is... | |
Mars: Exclusively reserved for amanfromMars or his disciples. | |
Saint Gates: Bill Gates is God. | |
Devil Gates: Bill Gates is the Antichrist. | |
Saint Steve: Actually, I think you’ll find Steve Jobs is God. | |
Devil Steve: No he isn’t, and the iPhone sucks a big fat one. |
Be warned that misuse of comment icons (eg, using a Boffin alert to draw the tech-minded readers into something which is actually about Lindsay Lohan nipslip websites), is punishable by a one-month ban from reading El Reg. Repeat offenders may be tracked by their IP address and paid a personal visit by the Vulture Central black ops soviet. You have been warned. ®