The New Sage Icon, Thoughts?

[Fawkes]

I didn't say it was a slippery slope; I said it's so ridiculous that it sounds like an absurdist slippery slope argument someone would make against inclusiveness in gaming.

Example: "Removing flashing lights in an encounter to make it better for epileptics?!? What's next... altering/limiting stylized designs based on the fact that some people don't like bumpy textures?!?"

That doesn't even make sense, a slippery slope argument would be about leading to bigger or more expansive things, not smaller insignificant things.

[Goji1639]

That doesn't even make sense, a slippery slope argument would be about leading to bigger or more expansive things, not smaller insignificant things.

In this case a slippery slope would indicate that something somewhat reasonable would become increasingly absurd and trivial, until even the most petty of requests are deserving of action.

You want to know the sort of thing setting them off? Look up image examples of trypophobia and you'll understand immediately why it's disturbing. Some people it sets off easier than others. Few things set that off in me (the previous icon did not) but I can imagine how quickly it set off some people who are really sensitive to that sort of thing. Changing it hurts nobody, and only helps SE with PR.

It may help with PR a little bit now, but it hurts later. SE can't reasonably accommodate every single aspect of everyone's sensibilities, so they've just set a precedent they can't live up to.