Agreed that the color is nice, offsets the slight bit of redundancy, but agree with other posters that the icons are too large.
IMO, 20x25 pixel, and a better place would be along the top of the message body, in the middle just to the right of the reply options, more user friendly, I seldom ever scroll below where the text of the post ends, took me a while to even notice them. For sure use the icons and color.
Dragynn