Avatar Week
 

OK gang, beginning now, we have a week to give avatars a trial.
Please adhere to the rules and be responsible for your choosings.
If not, we'll lose this priviledge and likely will not receive anymore perks. Size is limited to 50 X 50 pixels.
I've included this poll to evaluate them, so please be honest.
Thanks,
Chev

Ps. Thx Jon:)

I think as long as it doesn't get abused and people dont do any stupid crap, it's just one more stupidly fun thing. It lets you give yourself some kinda "personal" touch, (and hopefully reduces the headache over custom titles). Ey, its all good.

yay for custum avatars!

By the way, to choose your avatar, go to "My Control Panel", choose "Edit Options", avatar info is at the bottom.

I don't think we should have them. It's just like having two sigs. And you know there's always gonna be some people with huge ones. It's just gonna be another useless thing that the mods have to waste more time on patrolling.

If you really want an avatar, put it in yer sig.

Then again... I do see the attraction of having something in your title area...

Crapola, where's the off button.......

If we're gonna have this customization, I say make it an either or thing ... you can either customize your Avatar *or* have a custom Sig, but not both. Makes it a cluttered mess. Personally, I like the Avatar over the Sig, yah. :)

I was just saying that a 50 X 50 canvas is tricky to create an image for as any of you know who've made a mikro:)

"My Control Panel">"Edit Options">Hide avatars

I'm not really bothered either way. Are these size limits automatically enforced or is it another job for the moderators? If there are automatically enforced, I think we should have them but as Duk said, you should only have a sig or an avatar.

Especially for the peeps who, like me, are still on Dial-up.

skinme theres an option in the control panel to disable avatars so if u find that its taking way to long to load a page then disable it. u can also do the same with sigs

why not switch signature mode off.. so nobody can do sigs anymore.. and only allow 50×50 avatars... then the readings wont be too distorded by the sigs.. and you wont have banners as sigs anymore either

Lynx i dont think we can have links in avatars.

hmmm ... just testing ..

What else could it be?

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I suppose a pola bar will now be in our future. ;)

[edit] If you could just make it so that these little pics were able to be linkable and get rid of sigs, I think we'd have a winner here. It surely would cut down on the image garbage when scrolling down thru threads. Just my opinion. :) [/edit]

good idea, ditch sigs altogether, and just use avatars. I like it.

arrrrrg
 

:mad: i don't like these avatars,especially with the sigs, theres more pictures than there is content, which defeats the purpose of the forums, so i say we choose between sigs and avatars like someone suggested.

Yet you have both:rolleyes:


Option #2

My control panel > Edit options >
Show user's signatures in their posts? yes no
Show user's avatar in their posts? yes no

Great pic, bladez. :) Consider doing a skin of that?

kewl!!! I wanna peek!! :D

oooopps!!! :eek: Here comes Duk with that whip.... :)

I don't like them.

They make the place look untidy. Like a kiddies colouring book.

I don't like image sigs either. And the location field.

All these things add up to make the layout of the pages too flexible and untidy. The site has a nice clean and ordered design, but these three things together make the forum just cluttered and horrible looking.

I'm just off to deactivate them from my view :)

/amp misses all the fun! :)
wait till I get home and release my hopping cheese from the cellar!!!!
**evilgrin**

I'll make one later.....

I was skeptical at first, but I think the "avatar and no sig" idea might grow on me.

I think they're cool :D but I think that they must not be animated gifs coz they distact too much


hehe wait till I get one :D

I like the avatars better than the sig. I can upload it, so I don't have to worry about hosting space, which is convenient. Sigs are cool for thematic things, like coordinating with the realease of a new skin or something. With both you don't have to sacrifice your forum identity (avatar) for advertising (sig). Just my take.

i don't like em. especially not the animated ones

Made mine, more informed will know what it is :D, and where it came from :D.

i must agree some of the animated ones can be a little OTT but some are kool.

Now I think I prefer Avatars to signatures. I think we should have the option for both but a regulation should be "either/or". The reason we should still be able to have sigs (only if we give up our avatar) is for promoting new skins and URLs and similar.

Best of both worlds
 

I like the avatars because you don't have to scroll through the space the sigs take up however, text sigs tend to add a little humor to the forum. Besides, you can still link off a text sig without killing the speed it takes to download the image sig. Out of courtesy to the people on slow connections, keep an avatar and just have a text sig or just an image sig with no avatar. I've seen this work well in other forums.

There is only one reason I might not like avatars. Find scarface - his is really frikkin annoying. :rolleyes:

[edit] here check his out. [shudders] I think I'll go have a seizure now. [IMG]http://whatno.***********/crackeds.gif[/IMG] [/edit]

Hehehe
 

now an animated Leatherface avatar would be pretty cool from the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Damn, me and my B movies again. I'll have to keep a lookout for that scarface guy though that thing is blinding.:eek:

Avatars...
 

I think they add a lot of personality to the forums. I know that the icons at deviantART add a lot to the community. However, the vast majority of the people at deviantART have really nice icons, so it doesn't look cluttered. I don't know if it'll be that way at Winamp, but I think it's at least worth a try. What say you all? :)