Should we allow the use of AVATARS in the forum?

[Tom Allensworth 1,532]

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?

[Guest ba747heavy]

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?

[JSkorna 137]

No,I don't really care what other people look like.

[Guest Milton]

Personally, I prefer NOT. It seems a waste of bandwidth and peoples time. I would also vote to eliminate signatures. :-)

[Christopher Low 5,352]

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.

[Tom Allensworth 1,532]

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.

[Guest Erick_Cantu]

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.

[Splash_One 0]

> typically showing a photo of you.We can get that done and out of the way this Monday :+ (See Signature)

[Guest]

http://www.hornet.demon.nl/ducky.jpg the duckman strikes again.

[Guest Tim13]

"...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

[Guest ba747heavy]

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 :)

[boris4356 4]

I would also like to see signatures go.

[Guest Robert J]

Also agree, NO signatures.Robert J

[Guest jdu]

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?

[Guest Ken_Salter]

"stay on topic .... Stay on Topic!"- subtle Star Wars reference