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TotalControl

Original Poster:

8,304 posts

227 months

Saturday 17th January 2009
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A quick one, not sure how well this will go down with the PH lot. I was wondering why there is no use of avatars on this site. I think it might be quite cool to be able to have avatars available, but say only to those who have been on the site for over 3 months (just an example). Just a bit of personalisation really. The mods could have a bigger avatar or the word MOD under or over their avatar.

Just a thought.

Kinky

39,941 posts

298 months

Saturday 17th January 2009
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Thats what your profile is for.

Avatars and signatures will never happen on here [fortunately].

K

Red Firecracker

5,346 posts

256 months

Saturday 17th January 2009
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Well said Kinky.

It's what separates the readable forums from the unreadable for me.

I've no wish to trawl through a page of animated gifs, 'amusing' pictures and the absolute horror of picture signatures that take up half a page with a naff picture of sidelights, foglights and a shopping list added on tat just to get to the meat of the posts. Which would then more than likely just be '+1' biggrin

sorry, have had to experience a couple of those boards recently!

ali_kat

32,152 posts

250 months

Saturday 17th January 2009
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yes

Plus makes it blooming obvious what you are 'doing' at work nono

Furyous

25,694 posts

250 months

Saturday 17th January 2009
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Kinky said:
Thats what your profile is for.

Avatars and signatures will never happen on here [fortunately].

K
And repeat........

TotalControl

Original Poster:

8,304 posts

227 months

Saturday 17th January 2009
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OK, not that I'm a huge fan, would have been nice. But I like the idea of a low key site to use at work, so thats good. I was very curious to as to why they weren't up and if they would ever be introduced. Thanks for the replies though.

Oh, how can you tell then who a mod is?

Edited by TotalControl on Saturday 17th January 19:57

Kinky

39,941 posts

298 months

Saturday 17th January 2009
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TotalControl said:
Oh, how can you tell then who a mod is?
In my book, experience.

TotalControl

Original Poster:

8,304 posts

227 months

Saturday 17th January 2009
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OK, so they have to have been here a long while and have had to had a fair few posts?

ali_kat

32,152 posts

250 months

Saturday 17th January 2009
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TotalControl said:
OK, so they have to have been here a long while and have had to had a fair few posts?
Not necessarily hehe

Kinky

39,941 posts

298 months

Saturday 17th January 2009
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As the Kat called Ali says smile

JonRB

80,025 posts

301 months

Saturday 17th January 2009
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TotalControl said:
A quick one, not sure how well this will go down with the PH lot. I was wondering why there is no use of avatars on this site. I think it might be quite cool to be able to have avatars available, but say only to those who have been on the site for over 3 months (just an example). Just a bit of personalisation really. The mods could have a bigger avatar or the word MOD under or over their avatar.
We just don't here. It's what makes PH so great.

There are loads of other forums around at allow half a page of spam to be vomited onto the end of each post automatically, if that's your thing.

Furyous

25,694 posts

250 months

Saturday 17th January 2009
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JonRB said:
We just don't here.
Ok ?

FamilyGuy

850 posts

219 months

Sunday 18th January 2009
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JonRB said:
There are loads of other forums around at allow half a page of spam to be vomited onto the end of each post automatically, if that's your thing.
I might have chosen gentler words, but I agree 100%. At the risk of being lampooned, PH does seem to conduct itself with a little more decorum and a bit less in-yer-face-look-at-me bling than other places. I like it that way.

Mr Will

13,719 posts

235 months

Monday 19th January 2009
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TotalControl said:
OK, not that I'm a huge fan, would have been nice. But I like the idea of a low key site to use at work, so thats good. I was very curious to as to why they weren't up and if they would ever be introduced.
They serve very little purpose, clutter up the site and cause problems for people browsing at work (doubly so for signatures)

We encourage people to express themselves via their considered replies (rather than automated junk, which just gets ignored) and give you a profile where you can tell others as much as you like about yourself and your cars

Xenocide

4,286 posts

237 months

Monday 19th January 2009
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People use avatars to assign an identity to people. Significant people are already highlighted here (with the OP hightlighting and yourself highlighting) so there's not really any point.

Shaw Tarse

31,887 posts

232 months

Monday 19th January 2009
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JonRB said:
We just don't here. It's what makes PH so great.

There are loads of other forums around at allow half a page of spam to be vomited onto the end of each post automatically, if that's your thing.
The question of avatars keeps cropping up, could there be a part of the sign-up for PH that states no avatars (or you shall be shot!)?
Smilies however are fine! Cheers jon;)

miniman

30,021 posts

291 months

Monday 19th January 2009
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Interesting feature of phpBB is that it allows avatars but allows users to choose whether they are displayed or not. Kind of allows people that want their screen cluttered up with banal ste to do so.

crofty1984

17,064 posts

233 months

Monday 19th January 2009
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I'm a fan of the no-avatar rule. It was a fair question OP, and now you've had a fair (if "diversely worded") answer.
Think of it like the uniform rule at school. If everyone's posts look the same, you can only judge them by their content. Also the "work safe" aspect is a big plus to a lot of us.
Oh, you just kind of get to know who the mods are if you have no life, and a really slow job. I'll write you a list if you like smile

Edited by crofty1984 on Monday 19th January 17:28

Big Al.

69,336 posts

287 months

Monday 19th January 2009
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May well be a good idea IMHO to bring this to a close now, as it isn't going to go anywhere other than around in circles.

AVATARS are not going to happen on PH.
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