June 12, 200421 yr What are AVATARS? They are small images that appear next to your message, typically showing a photo of you. Were we to allow AVATARS, we would have some pretty strict rules on their use. These would include:1.) Images of the poster only2.) No images that could be construed as advertising3.) Images would only be hosted on YOUR website, not AVSIM's4.) Images would be no larger than 125 x 125 pixels in width5.) Images would be no larger than 5 kbytes in sizeWith those constraints, would you want us to allow AVATARS?
June 12, 200421 yr Nononononono! They would really take away from viewing realestate on my 1024x768 monitor even if they are so small.Just as a clarification, what is rule #1 referring to?
June 12, 200421 yr Personally, I prefer NOT. It seems a waste of bandwidth and peoples time. I would also vote to eliminate signatures. :-)
June 12, 200421 yr Tom,To be honest, I see avatars at other forums that I visit, and I personally think that they are a waste of space.Chris Low. Christopher Low AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU / 64GB DDR5-6000 RAM / 12GB Nvidia RTX 4070 Super GPU / Gigabyte X870E Aorus Elite Wifi 7 / 1+2TB Samsung Evo Plus M2 Nvme UK2000 Beta Tester
June 12, 200421 yr Chris, that's my opinion too, in addition to them being somewhat childish and smacking of self-ego stroking, but we wanted to give the community an opportunity to vote on the subject.
June 12, 200421 yr They're fun to mess around with, and rarely do people use photos of themselves (I usually use a small 737 shot like this -> http://sgair.net/erick/SIGS/b733_avatar.gif). Limit them to 48x48 pixels or so and there's really no issue.
June 12, 200421 yr > typically showing a photo of you.We can get that done and out of the way this Monday :+ (See Signature)
June 12, 200421 yr "...in addition to them being somewhat childish and smacking of self-ego stroking..."You've also just described signatures. Personally, it wouldn't break my heart to see the sigs dropped, as well as not implementing avatars.Tim13
June 12, 200421 yr I actually wouldn't mind seeing signatures severely limited, meaning no images, and say only a certain number of characters/lines. Sigs are nice because they autopost my name (PMDG forum), but I really don't need this nice image in my sig :)
June 13, 200421 yr I don't see see whats so bad about signatures. As long as they are used properly. They don't do any harm, do they?
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