I didn't negrep you, someone else must've done so.

I think I actually tried replacing the boxes with carrots at some point and it looked pretty bad. The carrots need to be downsized so much it becomes an orange-ish blur and the effect is kind of lost. Additionally, there's the problem that there'd need to be some other image to replace the red and white rectangles. Recoloring the carrots would look weird and other images would not convey the meaning of "negative" or "neutral" well. There's also the issue that - apart from the background and logo in some themes - no other forum graphics use Jazz Jackrabbit sprites, so it would look sort of out of place.

Hope that clears things up

Besides, if it seems a suggestion you made once was ignored, feel free to make it again, it happens that I forget stuff or try it out but forget to let you know (like in this case).