The New Report Post buttons/Icons are too confusing! Please Help!

[schauerlich]

Ahhh Okay, so it has no new meaning, just same old button with a new outfit on?

Yes.

[HappinessNow]

Yes.

See my edit in the last post for ways I think confusion can be eliminated in the future:

Ahhh Okay, so it has no new meaning, just same old button with a new outfit on?

EDIT: I think what happened here is before you had an easy to understand icon that was simply explained upon mouse-over.

What makes the new way confusing is when you have people from a world-wide audience where English is not their native language come here; when you add the different text to it, it also adds a third variable and thus a possible new meaning(s) whether intended or not. The new system may be great for native English speakers but adds a whole new layer of ambiguity and complexity for others, but now you have this thread to point people to when they do not fully understand. Again, the old way was so much more simple to understand and less ambiguous but since this predominantly is an English language forum it will make it easier for native English speakers.

It may have been better to make the text the same as the mouse-over: "Report Post" and then there would be no confusion. If you changed "Report Abuse" to "Report Post" then you could eliminate the mouse-over text completely or you could leave it with the "Report Abuse" text and eliminate the "Report Post" mouse-over and remove any new ambiguity and confusion.

Just my 2 cents.