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Post by Marlin on Jul 16, 2014 18:44:21 GMT -5
Don't get me wrong. I don't always bother creating or uploading any avatar myself, on every forum where I register. But the way that this forum apparently shows an avatar anyway, a default one, makes it look very bad, to my mind, actually worse than if no avatars at all were shown. When I first started reading here, I kept confusing different posters due to their identical avatars. (It actually still happens.) Silly, I know, but I have become so used elsewhere to identifying posters by avatar that it now seems to happen automatically. When even administrators and moderators had the same dull uniform default avatar, I was thinking there was probably something wrong with the forum software or rules here that prevented convenient upload of an avatar. So I was very surprised, when now registering, by how easy it was. I mean, surely you must have some image on your computer that you can use? Or you can just "steal" one from the game itself like I did. The forum instructions say a 150×150 image is ideal, so I resized it with GIMP, but I don't think that's strictly necessary. And uploading it was child's play. And if you can't or don't want to upload an avatar, there is even an "avatar editor" offered as alternative, with which apparently you can create a human face with whatever features you choose. Please, think about it. I honestly believe more varied avatars here would be a literal face lift to the whole forum.
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