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Doesn't that question also apply to the 'mic' icon?
My understanding is that they both represent 'thread starter.'
Or am I missing something?
But to answer your question, it makes sense to me ... since he started the thread.
The original issue was that the mic icon does not intuitively cause a reader to think, "Ah! s/he must be the thread starter." IMO, that intuitive response would be more like if the icon were one of a first place ribbon, or something along those lines:
Again, let me know if I'm misunderstanding something.
(BTW, my other choice was an icon of an arm/hand shooting a starter's gun)
This is now done. Please report any problems, and it would be great if you could also report that it is working correctly for you.
Basically, it should follow your existing subscription preferences now. If you had no subscription, no email, daily, weekly etc, it should respect that.
My problem is that I can't think of a picture that unambiguously conveys the idea of "Thread Starter." This may not be a case of a picture being worth a thousand words.
If an icon is not already in wide use, I think it usually is not all that understandable. Think of all the computer system icons that are familiar and second-nature to us. Except for a very few, they probably meant very little until we got used to them (Exceptions: hourglass or the current twirling circle for "wait".) If there is no standardized icon for something, it gets tough to think of one, which means that probably users would find it hard to recognize if they saw it.
Bob.
When one door closes, another opens.
-- Cervantes, Don Quixote
Agree. OTOH, using an icon that is already used by Google, phone apps, and others to mean 'record,' as something other than that, is the other side of the coin.
But there's hope. The 'gear' icon is now well-known to mean 'settings.' That was learned, and not really intuitive. Same with the '3 lines,' or 'hamburger' icon ('menu'). Mike will just have to start a 'thread starter' icon trend.
When you have a journal (thread) in either the "Trading Journals" or "Elite Trading Journals" section of the site, we will automatically set your user profile field to your journal URL, based on the newest thread you've …
In addition, you will receive an automatic direct message letting you know this action has been taken.
All of this is triggered upon viewing your own journal. I worked to implement this today to make it a better experience for our February Journal Challenge, located here:
This site for some reason truncates urls if you just paste the url into the text box rather than use the "insert link" button if they have a # in them. All of SierraChart docs links for the ACSIL functions and methods have urls with this # in them so its has been hard to point users to the function you are trying to direct them to until I just noticed that the button doesn't shorten the link!
for example,
2021-01-30 14_19_24-ACSIL Interface Members - Functions - Sierra Chart
The above url gets posted here if I use the insert link button as,
