Previously, we decided [Suggest X questions aren't good for the site](http://meta.ux.stackexchange.com/questions/483/suggest-a-way-to-deal-with-suggest-x-questions), but we didn't do anything about it. Lately, we've been especially tolerant lately of ["Suggest an Icon"](http://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](http://meta.ux.stackexchange.com/a/612/61). 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 bunch of garbage.

We now have a good [question about how to go about selecting an icon][1] 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](http://meta.ux.stackexchange.com/questions/512/the-main-faq-page-doesnt-go-into-much-detail-about-whats-on-and-off-topic).

  [1]: http://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/14571/icon-semantics-resources-a-k-a-icon-for-x-needed