FEEDBACK REQUESTED: do you want a 'forum' social media icon?

[Panjo]

At the ForumCon conference a few months ago, there was a discussion about the lack of a social media icon for forums. We volunteered our very talented designer, Gary Shikhelman, to approach the project. The goal is to provide the forum community with an icon that means "forum" for use in digital and print in the same way that you might use the familiar Facebook or Twitter social media icons to imply that clicking on those icons will take a site visitor to your presence on those outlets.

Here is the first round of designs, referred to as #1 (top row), #2, and #3 (bottom row). To state the obvious, this first draft of designs is presented in various sizes to show you how the different iconography will scale.



Questions:
a) do you share a need for an icon that is highly recognizable as a 'forum' icon?
b) what do you think of designs #1, #2, and #3?
c) if we agree on an icon, will you use it? implement it?

For context, here are a variety of existing social media designs, non of which mean 'forum.'



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