Avatars: New Owners, Old Question
05-09-08, 02:29 PM
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Avatars: New Owners, Old Question
Since we have new owners, I thought I'd ask if the official policy against avatars still stands. Other sites under the IB umbrella allow their users to have avatars.
Will wait patiently until the weekend is over for a response.
Will wait patiently until the weekend is over for a response.
05-09-08, 03:36 PM
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DVD Talk Hero
Close.
I just think they clutter up a site. There are tons of forums out there that are just covered with random images from avatars and images in sigs and all kinds of crap like that.
I just think they clutter up a site. There are tons of forums out there that are just covered with random images from avatars and images in sigs and all kinds of crap like that.
I had an avatar for a little while when I became a mod, but got rid of it.
05-09-08, 06:59 PM
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DVD Talk Hero
God no. I hate forums that allow that crap. I don't even like the ones that are allowed here.
05-09-08, 10:34 PM
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Originally Posted by VinVega
I have my avatars turned off.
yet most of the other people, who do like avatars, can see the avatars since they dig them...
they are, after all, on almost every forum on the internet for a reason...
they're kinda cool...
05-10-08, 08:02 AM
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I'm seriously not trying to threadcrap or be cruel, but avatars? Aren't those for kids? I don't see them except on the more immature aimed forums. I thought most people here were adults.
05-10-08, 05:29 PM
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I don't necessarily miss them but I think it makes for more of a community, being able to put a "face" to the post. As it is now I just read the forum and don't notice who posts what.
05-10-08, 06:06 PM
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DVD Talk Hero
Originally Posted by kilcher
I don't necessarily miss them but I think it makes for more of a community, being able to put a "face" to the post. As it is now I just read the forum and don't notice who posts what.
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05-10-08, 09:10 PM
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DVD Talk God
count me in the group against avatars
they do make a site look trashy, they clutter up the screen, and they are pointless
yes, you have the option to turn them off.. but i dont get the option to turn off the strain the add to the forum servers.. and if that effects my browsing, then its a bad thing!
they do make a site look trashy, they clutter up the screen, and they are pointless
yes, you have the option to turn them off.. but i dont get the option to turn off the strain the add to the forum servers.. and if that effects my browsing, then its a bad thing!
05-11-08, 07:56 AM
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DVD Talk Hero
I have avatars turned off because I don't like them. But some people do. Some people also like to put lots of bumper stickers on their car.
If a post is a sarcastic one-liner, who is it? One of a couple dozen members. If it's really funny it still only reduces the count by half.
If a post is a sarcastic one-liner, who is it? One of a couple dozen members. If it's really funny it still only reduces the count by half.
05-11-08, 10:24 PM
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Originally Posted by Venusian
Close.
I just think they clutter up a site.
I just think they clutter up a site.
05-12-08, 12:49 AM
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Originally Posted by Dr Mabuse
isn't that what's cool?... if you are unusual, and don't like avatars, you can turn them ALL off... and never know they are there...
yet most of the other people, who do like avatars, can see the avatars since they dig them...
they are, after all, on almost every forum on the internet for a reason...
they're kinda cool...
yet most of the other people, who do like avatars, can see the avatars since they dig them...
they are, after all, on almost every forum on the internet for a reason...
they're kinda cool...
Hell, make it so that Avatars are, by default, off, and we actually have to go turn them ON. I'd be for that, if the clicking is too much of a pain for the opposers.
05-12-08, 09:27 AM
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Originally Posted by twikoff
count me in the group against avatars
they do make a site look trashy, they clutter up the screen, and they are pointless
they do make a site look trashy, they clutter up the screen, and they are pointless
05-12-08, 03:05 PM
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Originally Posted by Trevor
I'm seriously not trying to threadcrap or be cruel, but avatars? Aren't those for kids? I don't see them except on the more immature aimed forums. I thought most people here were adults.
05-12-08, 03:34 PM
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DVD Talk God
Originally Posted by Groucho
not even comparable
edit.. i see that they do show up in the forums over there.. and look cluttered and trashy
Last edited by twikoff; 05-12-08 at 03:36 PM.
05-13-08, 04:01 PM
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Good news everybody! We've worked out an arrangement where all users can now have avatars. You'll be able to select from a wide variety of images from Frontier(s) the new film from Lions Gate Entertainment that isn't for the faint of heart. Enjoy!
