Bee Comment Icons
December 8th, 2007 @ 1:06 pm by Mrs. Bee
We recently had our first Bee impersonation! Whether it was purposeful or not, a reader left a strongly worded comment using the name “Spider”. It’d be awful if someone thought that Mrs. Spider had left that comment! A number of our readers were fooled, even though the comment wasn’t left from a Weddingbee account.
So we realized we have to make it even more clear when a Bee is commenting. At first we were going to put some color trim around comments from the Bees, but then BilBee came up with the idea of using the Bee icons next to comments. We took a screenshot, so you can see what we mean (or you can see it in action here).
Hope you like this as much as we do! Many thanks to BIL Bee 
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46 Responses to “Bee Comment Icons”
very cool idea. I think it will also help with a lot of the past bloggers who only post every once in a while that current readers may not not be familiar with. There are a lot of readers with a “miss so&so” screen name and now it’ll be easier to see which were/are bees and which are readers.
Wonderful idea! Thanks as always for keeping everything on WeddingBee running smoothly and happily.
Great idea BILBee! This will definitely help eliminate any confusion in the future.
Plus all the WB icons are so adorable, so the more chances to use them the merrier
Thanks BILBee!!! Guess it wasn’t complicated for you. Great minds think alike~ =)
That’s terrible! i love the new system though! good job BilBee
Awesome, BILBee! Not only is it easier to see which bees are leaving comments, it also makes the comments that much prettier
Oh this is so pretty!
I’ve got to comment just to see my little birdie show up here. Such a great idea!
Oh yeah… this will be much easier to know who is saying what. What a great idea THANKS BILbee
I like this, but could the icons be smaller? So the spacing between the date and the comment is the same as everyone else’s?
I’m with cs…I am finding it a bit hard to read with all of the icons. Anyway to make them smaller?
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CS/Emerald/Corn - Thanks for the feedback. It is a bit tricky, because the icons are all different heights and widths. Let’s see how it feels after a day or two to get used to the change? In the meantime, we’ll think about things we might do get all these icons of different sizes rendering in a consistent way.
this is a great idea because i did get confused in the beginning with the miss so & so that weren’t bees. and i’m another vote for smaller sizes, though i do understand your point bil bee. great work
and is it wrong that i’m a bit giddy to see my name sandwiched in the middle of the screencap? lol
I too, like Miss Chickadee, have to comment to see my icon show up. Thanks, BIL Bee!
Great idea!!!!
ok that didnt work… let me try again….
how cute!! great work BIL Bee!
After some trial and error, we’ve adjusted the size of the icons a bit… let us know what you think.
Wow, very very cute!! Thanks!!
Hmmm. Didn’t work for me, either!
Brilliant!
Plus, this helps when we’re reading comments, too.
Thanks Bees and BiLBee!
Great idea and it makes the comments look so colorful and festive. Nice job, BILBee!
yay! great idea…i really like it!
testing this out…
Mrs. Bee, New York
Age and Occupation: 29, Weddingbee Publisher
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 33, Internet
Engagement Date: May 7, 2004
Wedding Date: March 5, 2005
Venue: Westside Loft, New York
About Me: Yes, my name really is Bee! I love my blogging, wikis, and tabasco sauce!
i love it!! what an awesome feature! thanks for all your hard work bil bee!