Not strange, but it is a forum error, oddly enough. It's just an image that doesn't exist and hence your browser displays the alternate text. The icon was apparently supposed to be the normal one (like the one for this thread) but the url got horribly mangled somehow:
<img src="i/ratingicons/,,,,,note.gif,,,,," title="Rating" alt="Rating" border="0">
Normally this would be an issue for fusetalk, not anandtech, but I don't think Jason will mind hearing about it here.