I second that strike. If it's available in LQ Downloads, it should at least have a sub-forum.

Cheers
Bill

Bwahahahaha - fell right into my trap! Search for the question I posed jokingly and you will see why there is no forum. In fact, in this thread alone we have the 2 most asked questions.

Wow! WOW!! A moderator has blatantly and deliberately made a fool of me on an international community forum! WOW!!!

I certainly have better ways of spending my time...


Good luck, Jeremy.

Bill

I personally was a moderator at an Adult Graphic Art site, and I had to moderate the extreme gallery, where the content was very close to being illegal anywhere in the USA, for those images that crossed the fine line. You are right in that it is a huge amount of work.


for those saying that an avatar helps create individuality, look at the custom member titles and at post signatures, both do exactly the same thing.

The biggest nenfit to no avatars, this site works with lynx!!
well, ok, it mostly works with lynx, since lynx doesn't play nice with tables, javascript, images, flash and frames.
[ yes, the wordpress based reply box loses functions without javascript ]

Not at all. Which is why I began the comment with the word<?): bwhahahahahaha and used, in my prior post, [/preemptive strike].

Must be that dry British humour thing....

dragonslayer48dx, I think you've almost certainly misunderstood Ray's tone.

--jeremy

We all have avatars though.. it's just a shame their all 0x0 pixels in size.. ah well, the site looks better without some crappy picture that most likely someone else uses on another site..

GOTCHA! (It's an American humor thing-- LOL)

Cheers!
Bill

Thank you Jeremy, for not allowing avatars (and also for this site).
I hate them, especially the ones which are an animated .gif flashing away in the corner of your eye whilst trying to read.

I'm curious. In which way would they be useful? In the
best case it will tell me that the person posting this has
poor taste (a different taste than mine), in worse cases it
will tell me about some ego problem or mental disorder, and
in the worst cases they'll be plain out to annoy others (which
arguably falls into the "ego problem or mental disorder"
category as well).



Cheers,
Tink

We have more than a quarter of a million members on the site - in the time that I have been here, some names stand out and others don't. Having a small picture would not make a difference to me - I know, by reading their posts, who is generally knowledgeable and who knows a lot about particular subjects. The picture is an unnecessary overhead.

And we do have some members who are on dial up or otherwise slow connections - anything we can do to make their browsing experience better and quicker will always take precedence over aesthetics.

Avatars = Pointless Eye Candy

No brian, eye candy = good (at least down here - but sexist).

I think you mean visual polution

Yeah, "visual pollution" is a better description. I'll remember that for future use. Thanks.

As for myself, i think i could just copy past Ian's post.
I think avatars make sites look trashy, unofficial and unreliable... this site is clean and it brings a sense of trust and reliability... while some friends of mine (big gamers) seem to have problems at school as they visit sites where many images (sometimes avatars) call attention, and just get that site on the school's proxy, i visit this site occasionally , it does not call negative attention, looks wholesome, and it does not end up on the proxy, and i am not even nagged about it.