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halfformedfetus
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 23, 2012 7:40 pm 
 

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?

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TheGrimWombat
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 23, 2012 10:48 pm 
 

MA has opted out of avatars because in most cases they are gaudy and obnoxious.
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Poisonfume
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 24, 2012 8:03 am 
 

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.
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SadisticOrgasm
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Joined: Tue Jun 09, 2009 6:01 am
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 24, 2012 9:45 am 
 

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

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oogboog
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 24, 2012 9:50 am 
 

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.

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Azmodes
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Joined: Fri Nov 02, 2007 10:44 am
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 24, 2012 10:41 am 
 

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.

oogboog wrote:
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.

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.
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TheNiceNightmare
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 24, 2012 12:15 pm 
 

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.
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Derigin
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 24, 2012 12:28 pm 
 

We're not going to institute avatars, sorry.

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HouseSpiders
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Joined: Tue Aug 02, 2011 7:05 am
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Location: United Kingdom
PostPosted: Tue Jul 24, 2012 12:39 pm 
 

TheNiceNightmare wrote:
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.

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.
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MalignantThrone
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 24, 2012 12:53 pm 
 

HouseSpiders wrote:
they're just to express a bit about yourself. And most importantly, they're only a little bit of fun!

That's what signatures are for.
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Napero
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Joined: Sun Jan 02, 2005 4:16 pm
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 24, 2012 3:19 pm 
 

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.
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Grave_Wyrm
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Joined: Sun Mar 04, 2012 5:55 pm
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 24, 2012 4:30 pm 
 

halfformedfetus wrote:
being able to put up a photo with yourself favorite shirt on or whatever

There's a thread for that.

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


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The proof is hereby left as an exercise to the reader.

I'm content to take your word for it.

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Porman
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Joined: Sun Mar 06, 2005 5:00 pm
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Location: Death Metal Capitol of the World, Sweden
PostPosted: Tue Jul 24, 2012 6:36 pm 
 

You want avatars and images in your signatures? Go and join http://forums.smnnews.com/
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halfformedfetus
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 24, 2012 8:51 pm 
 

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

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Morrigan
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Joined: Sat Aug 10, 2002 7:27 am
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 25, 2012 1:02 pm 
 

MalignantThrone wrote:
HouseSpiders wrote:
they're just to express a bit about yourself. And most importantly, they're only a little bit of fun!

That's what signatures are for.

By the way, yours is too big.
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MalignantThrone
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 25, 2012 1:21 pm 
 

Sorry about that. Should be okay now. :)
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Morrigan
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 26, 2012 2:42 am 
 

...Yeah... :lol: Okay.

Anyway, this thread = dead horse. Sorry.
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Markeri wrote:
you can debate the actual date that metal began, but a fairly agreed upon date is 1969. Metal is almost 25 years old
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Why Iron maiden is there? It's very far to be metal than a lot of some metal band.

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