Avatars

Van Hellseek · 2 Aug 2006 at 22:47

Yewen said:
I am happy with my avatar.

Any more over 1000 point and it will get people spamming for the next one.

Anyone over 1000 posts here posts because they like doing so, and creates a less spammy community.

It is afterall, only a picture.

true but as has been suggested, spamming for a 5k avatar wouldn't be possible if it was by length of membership rather than post count. so instead of a 5k avatar you could have a 3 year avatar or something.

Sequoia · 3 Aug 2006 at 01:27

Von Luck said:
Would be nice if we had the option to disable the display of avatars as we can with sigs. Having images of any size in threads just makes them clunky and less readable. Why waste 2 inches (on this naff low-res lappy) of screen real-estate for one sentence posts?

If everyone's posts looked like manoz's above, would tidy the forum up nicely.

Edit: however given that the OP has now been suspended, it appears dissent is frowned upon.

It would indeed be nice to have that option. I can't see what advantage that there is to forcing them on, especially as there are other, but considerably less elegant, ways of getting rid of them.

Shock · 3 Aug 2006 at 01:52

As others have said, I'm not fussed about the avatars but would like the option to turn them off. My little widescreen laptop only shows two posts on the screen. Was there ever a reason for disabling it?

Duke · 5 Aug 2006 at 21:37

/gets taxi

Christo · 6 Aug 2006 at 10:04

Yewen said:
I am happy with my avatar.

Any more over 1000 point and it will get people spamming for the next one.

Anyone over 1000 posts here posts because they like doing so, and creates a less spammy community.

It is afterall, only a picture.

The date and time fit in perfectly, changing it now would throw people who have been on the boards for half a decade into a giant headache creating tools out the pram.

It works as it is, great community, no need to change it.

But you have an underboss avatar! :confused:

Personally I dont see the harm in a 5k avatar, if people are asking for it why not? To me it make 100% sense to have one, as it seems almost everyone has the same avatar on here.

Von Luck · 6 Aug 2006 at 12:08

?

Scania · 6 Aug 2006 at 12:41

I'd love to lose the Gangster theme'd avatars, replace it with say the muppets.

Would Spie therefore, be Kermit the Frog ?

Biohazard · 6 Aug 2006 at 13:03

Duke said:
/gets taxi

lol I don't think that Phil would be of any use, apparently in real life he has a lot of problems with youths in his area giving him grief

Replicant · 6 Aug 2006 at 13:22

All dons and underbosses should be at least 18, whats the point of having the authority if you cant even attend a lot of the meets.

Otacon · 6 Aug 2006 at 13:30

Replicant said:
All dons and underbosses should be at least 18, whats the point of having the authority if you cant even attend a lot of the meets.

Holy off topic batman.

Neither ones age nor eligibilty for meets are relevant to ones ability to moderate.

Nix · 6 Aug 2006 at 13:33

Otacon said:
Holy off topic batman.

Neither ones age nor eligibilty for meets are relevant to ones ability to moderate.

Yes, we all know that Yewen is more mature than Daz

*Flees*

dirtydog · 6 Aug 2006 at 13:34

Replicant said:
All dons and underbosses should be at least 18, whats the point of having the authority if you cant even attend a lot of the meets.

A number of the mods don't attend meets AFAIK and it is irrelevant IMO.

Baddass · 6 Aug 2006 at 15:45

totally irrelevant. I'm only 7 and i've been a Don for a while

I think we only have one mod who is under 18 and he is a might fine one at that

Beansprout · 6 Aug 2006 at 15:48

BoomAM said:
It'd also be good to vote on MoH or other such forum awards.
But that either wont happen (most likely), or will be seriously skewed in favour of the popular members of GD/SC.
Completly forgetting all the good work done by people in other forums. Theres often good guides/reviews written by people on here in the various forums that get no recognition at all beyond a post that says 'great thread'.
Those are the people who should be getting the MoH or similar awards. Not whos the most popular.

Huh?

I'm not a "popular member of GD/SC" :confused:

BoomAM · 6 Aug 2006 at 15:58

Beansprout said:
Huh?

I'm not a "popular member of GD/SC"

Maybe 'popular' was the wrong word.
Prehaps 'well known' would have been a better phrase to use in its place.
But what i ment was that there are many members of the other sub forums who are just as worthy of a MoH, but dont get them simply because they arnt active members of the social forums.

I also agree that age should have no bearing on ability to do anything on this forum. Mod/UB or otherwise.
However its simply not the case. Admitting ones age to be under 18 on this forum is pretty much suicide and too many times have i seen members from that point onwards have their opinions and views ignored and ridiculed because of it.

Yewen · 6 Aug 2006 at 16:02

Baddass said:
totally irrelevant. I'm only 7 and i've been a Don for a while

I think we only have one mod who is under 18 and he is a might fine one at that

Freefaller, officially 1.

I am under 18, bar in GD people take me seriously in hardware. If you know your stuff, you know your stuff period.

I have a 12 year old friend, who I met through PC's who clocking wise is 10x better than me, he uses old kit and gets stunning results from it. Talking to him on a PC level he is at my level, but when it comes to emotional maturity he has a long way to go as do I.

You can project an aurora of maturity onto a forum as I hope I do, but maturity goes so far, its the emotional maturity which develops with age. I am more 16 than 17 in that respect as I do take things to heart depending on who says them, and I am probably more prone to little outburst, although not sent forumside than other people older than me.

Forums are a great leveller, I do not use GD much for anything I want and being honest I generally do not like it bar the debating side, like this thread is a good one, in hardware age is irrlelevant, just as long as you do not tlk in txt spk lik. Its not a chat room, you could spend a hour writing your response and nobody would mind.

Beansprout · 6 Aug 2006 at 16:06

BoomAM said:
Maybe 'popular' was the wrong word.
Prehaps 'well known' would have been a better phrase to use in its place.
But what i ment was that there are many members of the other sub forums who are just as worthy of a MoH, but dont get them simply because they arnt active members of the social forums.

But I'm not really 'well known' in GD....I hang around helping out in HG&P...and other MoH are similarly active in other subforums.....

Admitting ones age to be under 18 on this forum is pretty much suicide and too many times have i seen members from that point onwards have their opinions and views ignored and ridiculed because of it.

They'll only be 'ignored' by idiotic members, though, so it doesn't really count....

Yewen · 6 Aug 2006 at 16:08

To true Beansprout, people who ignore youngsters who are making valid points are missing out on good contributions to the forums.

No harm in proving people wrong, but completely ignoring people for their age is wrong, you never know they may be a consultant for a big firm at 15.

Beansprout · 6 Aug 2006 at 16:11

Yewen said:
To true Beansprout, people who ignore youngsters who are making valid points are missing out on good contributions to the forums.

No harm in proving people wrong, but completely ignoring people for their age is wrong, you never know they may be a consultant for a big firm at 15.

Heheee there's always that

Sleepy · 6 Aug 2006 at 16:13

Replicant said:
All dons and underbosses should be at least 18, whats the point of having the authority if you cant even attend a lot of the meets.

What you mean they're not all crotchety grey haired old farts :eek:

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