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Old 07-23-2004, 11:25 PM   #16
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My penguin's very happy to be here at LQ. Speaking of bandwidth wastage, I'm going to now hit "post"
 
Old 10-16-2004, 11:43 AM   #17
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If it really REALLY bugs you, make a text art thing in your sig.

(response to acid: )
SORRY!!!
big mistake. apologies. won't happen again.

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Old 10-16-2004, 11:45 AM   #18
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ahh c'mon don't drag up dead threads like this! This will probably hang around now for a few days!
 
Old 10-16-2004, 02:46 PM   #19
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Yeah, let's all stop responding to it and let it die a peaceful death

(oh no, now I've bumped it up)
 
Old 10-16-2004, 03:28 PM   #20
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Now how can I resist!
<--slaps himself for being so silly
 
Old 10-21-2004, 03:01 AM   #21
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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.
 
Old 10-21-2004, 03:41 AM   #22
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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.
 
Old 10-21-2004, 06:55 PM   #23
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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
 
Old 10-21-2004, 07:43 PM   #24
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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.
 
Old 10-21-2004, 07:45 PM   #25
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Oh so an Avatar isn't a symbol? Thanks for clearing that up for me. But wouldn't a simple ? or the words NEW be enough with out the cute little dude?
 
Old 10-21-2004, 10:40 PM   #26
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FWIW, the penguin indicates whether the user on currently logged in or not.

--jeremy
 
Old 10-22-2004, 12:26 AM   #27
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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.
 
Old 10-22-2004, 08:43 AM   #28
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J.W.

Looking at the legend, I completely see why you'd think that. Maybe we should get a new icon for online/offline status. Any ideas?

--jeremy
 
Old 10-22-2004, 11:52 AM   #29
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a sleeping tux for gone?
a computers on/off symbols?
or just print a message in the profile part that says "online"?
 
Old 10-22-2004, 12:24 PM   #30
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Similar to SciYro's idea, maybe Tux in front of a bright PC for online, and a snoozing Tux in front of a darkened PC for offline. -- J.W.
 
  


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