Since the meaning of Stars, Recommended and Newbie-attention has been mixed together and pulled apart several times over, and there was the decision to make SOME flag that would mark runs for newcomers to check out first and get the idea of TASing, we need to name that flag somehow and to give it an icon.
That flag would list only a
few runs that are of the best known games that have the most impressive tricks (still not glitched to death). This would help to separate Newbie-rec and Star categories and avoid excluding too similar but still star-worthy runs from star tier (which is an untier yet).
About icon, my proposition was these 2 things, that are actually small enough, and have the meaning "this run will charge and blow your mind". I like the left one more.
People also suggested this
info box from Super Mario World, but I find it too indefinite.
Please suggest more icons and a name for this flag.
EDIT: the approxiomate list of others' suggestions for that flag
http://pastebin.com/yzAaaciW.
The legend:
1. What does the newcomer do when he arrives? He lurks around. He is interested. He has questions: "Where am I? What is this place?" So the icon represents that he must follow somewhere with those questions, to find the fair answers. "Interested? Bump me!"
2. First time you launch SMB you don't know what is inside those question boxes. Each one can be a surprise. And even when you play for quite some time, but haven't discover ALL yet, you still don't know what is inside the box.
So when you arrive at TASVideos for the first time, the icon is hinting about the site content: "Looks familiar, huh? You have NO IDEA of what you're gonna see!"
PS: This icon HAS to be animated (mine is of 8 frames, we still can get rid of a few more in the first half), to attract the full attention it can and to look REALLY awesome.
. But I don't quite like it.
Ilari: if the question was, what MY icons mean, it was the electrick charge sprite from SM.
EDIT: adelikat's suggestion: 
