dw_suggestions | Exclude Individual Icons from Random Selection

Title:
Exclude Individual Icons from Random Selection

Area:
Randomized icon choice

Summary:
There's a code that will permit a random icon to be selected for posts. For some icons, it may be inappropriate to use them randomly. Excluding these inappropriate icons from random selection, with a checkbox on the icon page, might be useful.

Description:
This code tour ( http://dw-dev.dreamwidth.org/64126.html ) mentions being able to have a post have a random icon with a single click. My first thought was "Cool!" My second thought was, "Wait, it could be confusing if I do that and it picks one of my strongly 'themed' icons, such as '*sigh*' or 'oh dear' or 'sad eyes'... or one of the icons I use only for certain fic universes, when posting fic!"

Therefore, the ability to designate some icons as "deliberate use only" on the Icon Page, while leaving other icons available to be randomly pretty, would make an already-cool option <I>ultra</I>-nifty-keen for me.

Drawbacks:
• Makes the code more complex.
• Adds another checkbox somewhere that people have to think about.
• Requires a decision of whether newly-added icons should be random-pickable by default or if they should start life as deliberate-pick only.

Poll #3829 Exclude Individual Icons from Random Selection

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 38

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Should be implemented as-is.
14 (36.8%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
3 (7.9%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
4 (10.5%)

(I have no opinion)
17 (44.7%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Exclude Individual Icons from Random Selection

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