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IMO: Avatars are a waste of time, bandwidth, and distract from an intelligent forum for discussions. Open a forum with avatars allowed (especially large, animated ones) and the idiots come rolling in, making seizure inducing stupidity and adding large images to their sigs followed by several lines of dumb quotes and usually only posting with one or two sentences if even that.
Add to this the hax0r/stalker factor: Some creatures will store their avatar and/or sig pic(s) on another website where they will log IPs and compare the timestamp of the posts with the users and stalk and/or try to haX boxes of various users. Avatars and annoying sig pics are just not worth it. There are plenty of other forums that make use of these features and I for one am delighted that Linuxquestions.org uses neither.
The first time I used a site with avatars, I felt damn irritated because of the layout of the replies posted.
There is a lot of space wastage when avatars are used. A good compromise may be a small avatar of about 64x64 pixels (something similar to the tux avatar used by jeremy), which will neither destroy the layout of the forum nor provide useless gaps in-between.
This would be a satisfactory solution. However, custom avatars should not be allowed. The user can only pick an avatar that is already provided by the forum.
If everyone thinks avators are so bad why not bitch about the little linux avator next to the date of each post? Or complain to your cell phone service for offering custom rings? Custom avatars are like a signature in place of seeing the face of the person entering the message
The little Tux image next to the timestamp is not an avatar but rather a symbol indicating whether a post is new (designated by the blue ? on Tux's chest) or not (indicated by a plain Tux). -- J.W.
Oops. My apologies for incorrectly describing the Tux symbol. On the Forums main page though, the two Tux symbols appear towards the bottom, with captions indicating the "?" one means new posts exist, and the plain one indicating no new posts exist. I had been under the impression that this was their meaning throughout the site. I guess this just goes to show what happens when you assume. My mistake, sorry again. -- J.W.
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