I'm forever seeing gold quest giver icons pop up on my mini-map, only to find out that the quest is gray to me. It would be nice if the quest icons matched those above the giver's heads.
If you are not interested in taking the trivial quests (grey to you), you can turn off the "show trivial quest icons" in the UI options, and you won't see them on the minimap, they will only appear over the NPC's head.
I know, I said I quit, so why am I posting? 'Cause there ain't no Blogorette patch.