The icons are as follow (as best that I remember)
! - sexual content - light pink to dark pink refers to light to heavy quantity of sex (if any). Light pink could be just about light petting, and dark pink will be full sexual intercourse. I think there are four colors.
a/t/c - adult/teen/child - the age of the spankee
blue/pink/green - male/female/unknown - this is the order and sex of each role. Blue first means male spanker, pink first means female spanker. Green is sort of a catch all. It may mean the spankee gets blindfolded and thus doesn't know the sex of her spanker (neither is it revealed to the reader), OR it could be a ghost and it is not revealed what sex they are, OR it may mean a spanking machine/android/etc (likewise the pink and blue colors underneath describe the sex of the spankee - I don't recall ever seeing a green spankee color)
Film Strip - I think this had to do with the setting, but haven't used it in a while.
Headphones - this indicates an audio story (which may be the author or someone they "hired")
Grey tablet/monitor/thingy icon - I have no clue, never used it.
Note: a hollow bubble prior to the filmstrip icon (and no other icons) means no spanking content. It's just "filler" setting up the story, or it could be a standalone "story" or discussion about spanking without any spanking.
There is a way to see what is a poem, story, or song/parody but I forget which icon describes that.
Also, the paper icon to the left of the story title, if you click it, will give you a synopsis of the story.This icon changes to something unknown when you have read the story.
on the right side is a check box, heart and some other icon thingy. The heart shows how many people favorited the story. The other two shows amount of comments and some other feature. aside from comments, I have no clue how to use those features, although somehow I have favorited a story or two.I think the other icon is how to add the story to your preferred reading list, but again, no clue how. | 
