https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56815
--- Comment #9 from [email protected] --- (In reply to comment #8) > (In reply to comment #2) > > Created attachment 13748 [details] > > screenshot > > As I noted at bug 41484 comment 45, these icons conjure up thoughts of > [[blackface]]. The newest variant looks stoned or asleep. I really hope these > icons are not currently deployed anywhere. haha, thanks for sharing the blackface link. I hope when I smile I don't remind you or anyone else of blackface. I don't have one but I smile pretty similarly to blackface look-alike icon. I got to be honest, I put a lot of thought into creating the icon, I couldn't decide which one would score a 100% user satisfaction. But then again, from experience that hardly ever happens, or ever. Since the heart icon was previously offensive to some cultures, the most important goal was to not make it offensive while still being able to represent "thank you." I can empathize that you are looking out for the rest because I do too. It may look like blackface sometimes but at least you got the point of the icon. Or am I wrong? We haven't got confused users yet, or rather, we haven't got user complaints about different expectations when they click on the thank icon. So far the icon's been doing very well, and I'm glad it hasn't offended anyone, which means, so far, goal achieved. I'd hate if the icon must end up being a camel (http://bit.ly/bO5T). :P Until my solution starts to fail my goals, I hope it's fair for me to say that I will put this in my non-urgent to-do list until I hear users complaining about it being offensive and that they had different expectations when interacting with the icon. Meanwhile, let me know if anyone has another alternative suggestion. About the anonymous icon, it was first used quite recently, and we are still testing the water and gathering user feedback. Anonymous users tend to not want an identity attached to them, hence, eyes closed. We wanted something that was easy to scan with enough distinction between signed on and anonymous users. The same goes to anonymous icon, while it's still early to come to a conclusion, I still hope it's fair that I put this under our non-urgent to-do list until we get more feedback. :D -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
