Personal Avatars

[Misawa]

So it's against the rules to post a picture of you as your avatar, profile and signature, yet 99% of the users here have MySpace or Facebook or both, and have hundreds of photos of themselves on those particular websites. Many even freely have links to these social networking websites in their signatures, so anyone in the world can click and see them. Not only that, there's the Post A Picture Of You thread, that again, anyone can visit and see many photographs of users of these forums. It's also one of the most popular threads here, so most people now know the face behind the username.

On top of those facts, it's fine to have pictures of celebrities and people in the public eye as your avatar or in your signature, etc. This is far fetched obviously, but what if Britney Spears or anyone in the public eye visited these forums and everyone knew it. Would they be banned for having a shot of themsleves as their avatar?

I'm sure this has been brought up many times, and I don't want to personally parade a picture of me as my avatar or in my signature, etc, but it makes no sense.

[lick]

Just another reason why the management are incapable of running this forum

[FlyingJesus]

This came up not long ago, and it was generally decided that some people are so ugly that we simply don't want to see their face in every post. With links in sigs you don't have to click them, so problem solved.

Not sure how this or anything else shows that management are "incapable" of running this place

[Immenseman]

i think (don't quote me) is beyond management. if i remember rightly this was a direct appeal from sierk that he didn't want them in avatars due to personal safety. although we're allowed to post pictures of ourselves onto the forum anyway. doesn't really make sense.

in all fairness i don't want to have to endure ugly people every time i see them post, one thread is ok, not numerous threads. harsh but true.

edit; that was so my idea first time around tom

[dogboy123]

Its fine without personal avatars

If you let them happen, then itd be hard to mod, as people would make inappropriate ones, then there'd be another thread about moderating on hxf.

I think avatars are good as they are, dont change them imo

[lick]

not like people are gunna put there penis in there av :S:S And if they do it can be removed. You think everything is hard. It would not be any harder than it is already

[dogboy123]

not like people are gunna put there penis in there av :S:S And if they do it can be removed. You think everything is hard. It would not be any harder than it is already

Is it my dirty mind, or was that post purposley dirty.

ANYWAY, good point but I dont think its needed, as jake said a thread is enough for people who wish to post pics of themselves

[Immenseman]

but that's the thing. if people are allowed then why aren't they in their sig/avvy.

however, that's just me playing devils advocate - i want things to stay as they are. i think it would look tacky really and for the above reason i mentioned that some people are just vile.

[GoldenMerc]

it would be like ch when pictures of that guy mcwae or something got absolutely ripped by someone in management.

[Rixion]

I support this idea of Avatars in your signature. The majority of forums I know of allow it so I don't why not allow it..

[xxMATTGxx]

Just another reason why the management are incapable of running this forum

Not really. I remember a thread not that long ago regarding something to this very similar. The majority of the replies in that thread said they didn’t want people having pictures of themselves in avatars and signatures. In my opinion I don't have any problem with this just as long people don't start seriously bullying the members.

[adaym]

I'd rather not look at people's faces thank you. I have Facebook and Twitter for that.

[The Professor]

Yeah its never really made sense to me either, sierk has just always wanted it this way and we never questioned it :P

[Nixt]

Basically the plan is to create a panel of fit people (Me, FlyingJesus, Sammeth) who will evaluate every picture before deciding whether they are attractive enough to go in an av. If not then the member gets banned for merely suggesting their ugly face be put onto an avatar.

Seriously though, I don't see why not... Personally I wouldn't do it, I don't see the point but meh.

[buttons]

It also looks really tacky & unprofessional :S

[RandomManJay]

I think everything makes quite a lot of sense as it is, you aren't allowed to post images of yourself or others (except celebs and those in public view etc.) in your avatar and signature because of reasons of user safety and bullying and the hassle it would give staff to moderate it (whether it would be difficult or not isn't the case). You are allowed to post a picture of yourself on the appropriate thread where the images can be viewed and moderated all together instead of them being widespread throughout the forum on avatars and signatures. And you are allowed to post links to images of yourself as long as they are appropriate. Basically it removes the problem of excessive moderation and issues with bullying from the forum as well as giving the forum a much more controlled and safe environment which has added to its appeal in my opinion.