Previously, we decided [Suggest X questions aren't good for the site](https://ux.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/483/suggest-a-way-to-deal-with-suggest-x-questions), but we didn't do anything about it. We've been especially tolerant lately of ["Suggest an Icon"](https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/icons) questions, and we've had a lot of them. 

It may be a good thing, because the site gets more activity and more content. But it may be a bad thing, because these questions aren't interesting to experts, and the mission of Stack Exchange is to make it easy for people to find quality information without weeding through a lot of noise. (I've written before about [the balance between quality and quantity](https://ux.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/611/definition-of-subjective-questions-for-this-site/612#612).)

We now have a good [question about how to go about selecting an icon](https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/14571/icon-semantics-resources-a-k-a-icon-for-x-needed) which is aligned with Stack Exchange's mission, I think it's time to close the "icon for X" questions and explicitly [discourage them in the FAQ](https://ux.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/512/the-main-faq-page-doesnt-go-into-much-detail-about-whats-on-and-off-topic).