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Last modified on 2009-09-20 21:40:39
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3.2 Icons Used on the Site·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.
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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:
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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.
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last modified: 2008-02-26 10:01:12 |
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