just interested? being able to put up a photo with yourself favorite shirt on or whatever i think that would be cool? sorry if this is an old question or people think its stupid but i thought it would be cool? any thoughts?

MA has opted out of avatars because in most cases they are gaudy and obnoxious.

While they are in most cases obnoxious like you said, if moderated they could help to make users instantly recognizable and add a little depth to the forums.

I agree with Poisonfume. It makes users instantly recognizable, just by the hint of their avatars.

But there are so many users. How would we get a way to even moderate every single picture that gets uploaded? People could upload obnoxious pictures, and there'd be almost no way to catch them all.

It's been brought up time and again and the owners have always said no. I wouldn't mind non-animated avatars with size limits. I've seen it work in other forums without the whole board becoming an LSD-spiced carebear circus. But nothing wrong with the status quo.


That's not a problem and there's no need for manual moderation. Avatar uploading can be limited and regulated through the software. If some idiot uploads goatse as his avatar this can be reported and dealt with just like every other kind of unwanted picture or idiocy on the forum.

You know what else is instantly recognisable? Signatures or even names! I realise it sounds a bit like I'm missing the point, but basically avatars are at worst a death signature, at best irrelevant, I don't see what there is to gain from adding them. Who would want a userbase with such poor attention spans that they'd need avatars to recognise a user anyway? If you're too lazy to even read and recognise a name, go bother some other forum I say.

We're not going to institute avatars, sorry.

Well happy days to you because they're not going to happen here.

Anyway, avatars are not used primarily to recognize other users (most of the time), they're just to express a bit about yourself. And most importantly, they're only a little bit of fun! Nothing essential though, I'm happy without them.

That's what signatures are for.

There will not be avatars on this board. If you want to see them, join some spastic board with the LSD-driven animated abominations, the crappy cropped cover art, horror flick monsters, "comedy", and anime images. If you consider them "creative" or "expressive", I'd say we have a Grand Canyon between our opinions.

And the same goes for sigs. No images, no excessive sizes, and no outrageous colours or whatever. Let's keep it neat. If you want such things, go elsewhere.

On the internet, the amount of "expressive" swirly colours in avatars and sigs is inversely proportional to the post quality. The proof is hereby left as an exercise to the reader.

There's a thread for that.

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=66629&hilit=recent+shirt+worn+bought



I'm content to take your word for it.

You want avatars and images in your signatures? Go and join http://forums.smnnews.com/

haha just an idea, thanks for the replys everyone! thanks for the link to the shirt page, il post my fav shirts up soon

By the way, yours is too big.

Sorry about that. Should be okay now.

...Yeah... Okay.

Anyway, this thread = dead horse. Sorry.