(Poll) Should The Cellar use avatars?
 

Avatars are the little images that show up to the left of every post, showing an image that represents the user.

We are a self-selected bunch that started without them... but I'll tellya, I have come to enjoy them on other forums, and many people are probably avoiding us because we don't use them.

Please, no avatars. My own words make me look like an ass often enough, I don't need an avatar on the job full-time.

You can choose not to use an avatar, and you can always block avatars completely as you read.

I don't care, as long as I can block them.

They do look like ass and color the words written next to them. If it goes that way a block function would be cool.

I'd say no, but if they are allowed, they should be very small. A huge part of the way they make a forum look like ass is to have a tiny little post in a huge empty box next to a massive avatar.

^SMRT

Yup.

I voted yes, but with a degree of sadness.

I personally prefer the plain look. I find the Cellar very comfortable to view. But I do agree that it seems more and more a part of what is expected in the basic functions of a forum.

I much prefer the current Cellar look. Avatars don't add a thing. And when dozens of people have the same one it just ... looks like ass. Not the good kind.

I assume you would continue to offer a sterile safe for work viewing mode, so it's really moot.

If we went with avatars, I'd need to chose one, but that's the only way it would affect me.

NO

What Happy Monkey said. Small, thumbnail-size. And please, no animated avatars.

ETA: A small photo of the Dwellar would be great, but, I understand some wouldn't want their actual face up there.

If you put avatars on, you will all see more of my face. Think about that then decide. :)

I want avatars. I want avatars now.

A previous time this topic came up, I found the most jarring image I could as an example of my potential avatar. Alas, I hotlinked it, and it is gone. As I recall, it was some sort of animated rooster.

Score two for Happy Monkey, both size and animated avatars.

In another forum they have a mandatory avatar/info box on the left, and if your post is shorter than the new testament, there's a lot of white space to scroll through to get to the next post.

Blinking/animated avatars are especially annoying.

The gerbil powering my interwebs begs for mercy at the thought of having to fetch avatars from overseas.

Please, think of the gerbils.

Also, my avatar would be the word Zengum against a plain background.

I have visited forums where avatars are polite and petite, but unfortunately the majority tend towards ugly, large, and animated. And, because people have short attention spans, they get changed do often they become statements of personality rather than true identifiers. We have user titles for that.

I've always liked avatars, and I think I'm the only one. I think this question has come up twice in the past.

No avatars for me please.

Wait, are there going to be naked blue native chicks?

Jeez Zen, you and your Smurf porn.

I'm a visual person. Avatars on other sites help me to distinguish the speaker. If we had avatars here, maybe I'd finally be able to keep Glatt and Griff straight.

I would be against allowing gifs though. No animated avatars.

If they can be turned off, sure. If not, no.

Lab!!!! *hugs* hope you well chika :)

Don't our profile pictures count as avatars. I have been on other boards that have avatars and have found them to be cluttered and unattractive.

If we have avatars, I'll just go to the You RFN thread or User Profiles and pluck a picture of someone different out each week. I might even use a pic of Aliantha for a couple of weeks. It'll be interesting to see if anyone no longer posting here finds out about their picture being used and comes back!

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