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leihu
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Registered: Jul 2001
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avatars

turn them on please I know you can set them to size restrictions but Id love to see em on and members who dont like em can turn them off so lets get em on please!!

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seconded.

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JoeyCat
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Why?

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morgana
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the more i think about it, the more i tend to agree with not using them. we have the ability to put pics in our sigs now, so what's the point in having a smaller, more restricting option?

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leihu
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avatars help to convey the person behind the post it helps distingish between who people are and if you dont like them vb has a option to turn them off for viewing for each indiviual

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Caffeine
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Names tend to be pretty easy to remember, and since no one here has the same name as anyone else, you should have no problems with telling the difference between two people (read: names).

Clutter, bad.

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morgana
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quote:
Originally posted by leihu
avatars help to convey the person behind the post it helps distingish between who people are and if you dont like them vb has a option to turn them off for viewing for each indiviual


your sig does that also. again, why would you want a smaller space to do it in?

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Glaistig
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The sigs are cool, but many people just use them as a banner to link their homepage or a gif that acts as a cute afternote. Not many of the pics used in the sig actually represent the poster.

An avatar would be a small pic or gif that says, this is me. It would be a way to show you without having a webcam, which some people cannot afford.

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Registered: Aug 2001
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Hey, i agree- add the avatars in. i use another vBulletin system and they add a lot to the system, even if you limit them to 50x50 or 100x100. They broke at one point and threw everyone for a loop- it turned out that's how everyone was unconsciously scanning through the posts looking for people they knew.

Technically we're all intelligent people and can look at the names, but the avatar's really do add a 'face' to each user (even if the avatar used is just some kind of abstract art). It might be an unconscious improvement, but psycologically speaking they really do add a lot!

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Goatboy
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I wouldn't be sad to see pics taken out of sigs either.

I am soooo old skool!

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leihu
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ok i see your point

The thing is this with vb the users can decide if they want to look at avatars or not the admin turns the feature on people who like them can have them and view them people who do not can go into their user cp and turn them off this solves the arguement and allows both parties to win see vb is the greatest

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aminal
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quote:
Originally posted by leihu
avatars help to convey the person behind the post it helps distingish between who people are and if you dont like them vb has a option to turn them off for viewing for each indiviual


your nick is used to distingush between people, thats why we all pick our own ones.

in an written - text based environment, the words you write are what is used to convery the person you are. Also if 'who you are' can be determined by a 32x32 pixel icon or whatever then you are not really much of a person at all.

All avatars tend to do is add clutter to a website, your avatar is what you write, you can be anything you like, you dont need an icon to add to that.

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aminal
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Re: ok i see your point

quote:
Originally posted by leihu
The thing is this with vb the users can decide if they want to look at avatars or not the admin turns the feature on people who like them can have them and view them people who do not can go into their user cp and turn them off this solves the arguement and allows both parties to win see vb is the greatest


they will also be on by default for any guests to the site, peopel who visit without an account or without being logged in.
as i said above, the avatars look untidy, and often consisit of sexual images, which contrary to popular belief, is not the sort of thing we want to show people.

the avartars just dont look good.
Please dont turn them on, they are nothing more than a gimmick for children.

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Goatboy
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Re: Re: ok i see your point

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the avatars look untidy, and often consisit of sexual images, which contrary to popular belief, is not the sort of thing we want to show people.


Amen!

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buddha's penis
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why would that be more "clutter" than sig pictures? i call clutter discrimination. why is a bouncing cat or goatboy and i two fags experimenting youths fucking a watermelon better than avatars?

i suppose you can want to not add MORE clutter. look at raven's forum for an example of clutter gone crazy. nothing wrong with the forum itself, but all that animation makes me want to puke.

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Inky
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Registered: Feb 2001
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I actually think the less clutter the better, sometimes looking at all these flashing sigs and avatars at other forums is like driving down the Vegas strip at night...

I like that we are more minimalist here.

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Roshigoth
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Registered: Aug 2000
Location: Los Angeles, CA
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I prefer no avatars.

Actually, I'd prefer to lose the images in sigs, too.

Keep the loading time fast, IMO. You really want an image sig? Do like VKL and Morgana did before they implimented it, and code it manually in each post.

'Sides, with Goatboy's melon-fuckers, I keep worrying that they're gonna throw me out of the computer lab.

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SkapeGoat
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I prefer we scrap the forum all together and move to usenet.

Now that minimalist for you.

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Dead_Inside
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quote:
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I prefer we scrap the forum all together and move to usenet


You go ahead and move first, Im sure we will all follow along right behind you.

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macker
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Registered: Nov 2000
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Can we have a news reader war first please, before we make the big move?

Thinking about it, now that the entire forum is based on a SQL database, providing a news frontend wouldn't be that hard.

As for the subject of avatars, please leave them out. Every time I visit an EzBoard with avatars I cringe. They just make the entire forum look tacky.

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Devi
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Registered: Mar 2001
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i say take away the sigs and use avatars.

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PFC Joker
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quote:
Originally posted by Buddha's Penis!

i suppose you can want to not add MORE clutter. look at raven's forum for an example of clutter gone crazy. nothing wrong with the forum itself, but all that animation makes me want to puke.



After looking at that forum I say no to avitars

If you want them you are a donkey

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also for all those Dial-up people out there a page with avitars is slow as shit roling downhill on a cold day

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I say hang the fucking bastard.

Clutter is bad.
Sex is good.
Clutter isn't as good as sex.
Bill is taller than Jenny.

Is sex, jenny or clutter the taller of the four?

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