Wow!
For someone who likes minding their own business,
you certainly proactively hunt and shoot down
anyone who's ideas aren't perfectly in line with yours,
in the most self-righteous manner possible.

Is this place always this crazy?
With people coming out of the woodwork to impose their views on you?

It was a simple innocent question, because I honestly thought there was a place to set it.
I just wanted to get my profile set up in the least time possible, and came to ask, because it was starting to take too much time to find it - and this ridiculous little war that some are waging on my horrible sinful blasphemous idea is certainly not helping any with that intended time-savings.

I don't know about you, but I've been in much crazier places, so this place must be pretty mild.

Okayyyyy, you bump a thread from 2005, almost demanding that we subscribe to your idea, you attack not only myself, but other members as well because we didn't agree with your idea, even though at least some of those members responding (in both this thread and the one you bumped) did in fact either agree with your idea or were indifferent to it, and we are imposing our ideas on you, when it's in fact yourself that is doing just that, and who has only just joined the forum ? How's that work ?

I'm really sorry, but I see a very big disconnect there, don't you?

I'm sure it was, so why not just start a thread and ask that question without bumping threads from 2005, and preceding to attack whoever dares to disagree with your idea ?

And which war is this ? As far as I see, you have asked the question (the very SAME question in two different threads), people have given you their opinions, and that's it.

It's up to LQ at the end of the day if your suggestion is acted upon or not, so it's really not my problem either way. As I've given you my opinion, so you can take it or leave it, that's entirely up to you. Over and out.

You're encountering this kind of attitude, perhaps because you've joined a Linux forum this year and 10 of your 11 posts thus far have been about the forum not having avatars and why you think it should.

The forum does not have avatars and never has. To me it would not make sense to go and join a forum which has avatars and ask that they be disabled/removed.

I think you're making a big deal out of nothing at all. Much too dramatic.

People having opinions that are different to yours does not make them crazy.

This is just a trollpost. Don't be surprised when you post on a forum and your thread cedes answers, even if they're not the kind of answers you wanted or expected.

That is absolutely fine, now you have your answer. Sorry if it wasn't the one you wanted.

If multiple users are having an issue with something, it's best to look at the lowest common denominator to see the source of the problem. The reason why people are taking issue with your posts has already been stated.

A great lesson you can learn from this is to take defeat with humility. As user SCerovec says in his signature:

Welcome to LQ.

Yeah I'm going to put TigerTamer on my ignore list until he figures out for himself what he did wrong...

If you don't mind me being forthright, you are not reacting well to people having opposing views to yours. That does not bode well for participation on *any* forum, let alone this one.

This is perhaps the most relevant argument against avatars presented thus far...

However, other Linux or *nix related forums still do manage to handle them ok.

You speak as if I have committed a crime.
I didn't check the date, and the thread wasn't closed. If the owners of the forum (because this place doesn't belong to you afaik) wanted it closed, they'd put in settings that a thread after a certain age be closed from commenting - or the mods would close it.
Go fight with them.

Also, I NEVER told anyone to "subscribe to my idea"!
I haven't got a clue how your delusional controlling mind came to that conclusion.

As for the rest, TLDNR

Yes, one would think that.
But every forum has their tiny little band of self-righteous nazis who act like they run the place, and band together to mob those who dare bring up a topic that opposes their views.
Somehow they seem to feel threatened by certain topics, and feel the need to snuff them out.

And BTW, I don't give a flying flute whether there are avatars or not.
I was just asking support-related question on where you set that.
It's you nazis who decided to go to war over this.

NO! A vigorous NO!

I simply refute stupidity! You say something stupid, and I'll counter. That's all it was.
Not campaigning for stupid avatars here! Was ONLY asking where you set it - and then people gave really really really stupid reasons to try to justify why not to have them.
Period. That is all!
If you don't want people to argue, say something intelligent that people will agree with.

You might wanna keep them on your Ignore List, as, I don't think they have learnt anything by the looks of it. I'm glad I decided to take your lead, and put them on my Ignore List - I just wasn't logged in before to ignore them... :doh:

The OP is clearly just a troll.

Everyone please take a deep breath and let this thread drift back into sleep.

LQ is not about "rules", but there are a few very simple rules here, including these...

LQ is all about mutual respect among members, perhaps especially between those with differing view points.

TigerTamer, welcome to LQ! I think that the answer to your question managed to get through, but if not then please consider asking your question again in a new thread. We look forward to your participation and contributions!

LQ - Still the friendliest online Linux community on the net! Let's all work to keep it that way, please!

astrogeek, while I do totally agree with your points in general, and I don't wish to argue with them either; I would like to address a few things, if I may...

The thread had fallen asleep until the OP decided to respond and yet again attack both myself as well as others that they felt disagreed with their question and/or suggestion, after members (including myself) had already said there was no issue with asking the question, and therefore it's not the question itself that was the problem, it was the fact that an old thread didn't need to be bumped, and in-particular, there was no need on the OP's part to attack other members for simply disagreeing with avatar's being displayed in the forums themselves (bearing in mind that at least a few members DID in fact agree with them being displayed).

The OP has clearly decided to continue attacking other members, and therefore the very definition of "trolling" is to "provoke an emotional response", therefore I will have to maintain what I said above, and I will also say that the OP will be on my Ignore List for good now. I think that members in general have shown a lot of restraint to date it should be noted.

I also would like to say that the following quoted from other members as well as myself is very accurate, given the situation to date;

With all respect, I have to agree with the above and stand by what I said above.

Or, for instance, they'd put a notification in big red letters in any thread which is over six months old which says:

"Go on, try it yourself" as Neil Buchanan used to say. Go to any thread on this forum over six months old, reply and see what it says above the reply box. Fun.

Godwin's Law invoked. Though to top it off you need to call one of us Hitler.

None of the reasons given are stupid. They are just reasons you don't concur with.

People can argue intelligently. Have you not read any Plato? An argument is just a selected series of statements to establish a definite proposal. Saying something 'intelligent' does not necessarily mean it will be agreed with [as has been proven earlier in this thread].

I applaud the rest of your post though I disagree with this statement. Respect is not naturally existent, it is generated. I can't respect someone who trolls [or flames] other forum member with comments such as:

This thread should just be locked and put out of its misery.