• The KEY to Site Icons
• What are these colored envelopes?
• What is this blue arrow?

There are many different icons used throughout the site, and it can take a while to understand them all. To help with that, there is a KEY provided here »/forums/all at the very bottom of the page.

Some additional message icons that aren't yet included in the Icon Key: (You can hover over these also)

Represents news or info

Signifies importance that you are attaching to what you are writing

Denotes an idea

Thumbs up!

Thumbs down

Question

All of these options appear across the top of the composition window when you are posting a new topic or a response. You may select any one to include beside your post.

by KeysCapt
last modified: 2008-01-24 23:05:32

Explanation of the envelopes and their colors, as seen in the overview of a forum:

A red envelope means a thread you have never read. In some cases, a really old thread that has new replies may occasionally appear with a red envelope as well.

An orange envelope means a thread you have previously read which has new replies.

A white envelope means you have read the topic, and it has not been updated.

A ribbon is a followed topic.

A red bullet means a hot topic. The bullet appears next to the envelope:

Feedback received on this FAQ entry:

• Where is the thumbs down and other thread icons?

  2013-07-20 00:40:48 (Cartel )

by KeysCapt
last modified: 2008-01-24 18:27:41

If you click on the blue arrow at the end of any thread listing when you're in any forum on the site, it will take you to the recently added posts in that thread since you last viewed the thread.

In other words, if you read a thread today, and come back tomorrow wanting to see only the recently added posts, clicking on the will do that for you. In the image below, the blue arrow is visible, and indicates that the member has previously viewed that topic, and new posts have been added since his last view.

by KeysCapt
last modified: 2008-02-26 10:01:12