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Join Date: Jan 2010
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I think we should add pictures under our names. I think that would be a nice add on to the whole shebang. Other forums have this feature.
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Let's go Redmen!
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Colorado
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Yes, but other forums are ugly. MacNN is pretty.
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Washington, DC
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Sigs can incorporate pictures.
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"One ticket to Washington, please. I have a date with destiny."
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hong Kong
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Originally Posted by SpaceMonkey
Sigs can incorporate pictures.
Exactly.
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Administrator
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: San Antonio TX USA
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The "pic under our names" is called an avatar. No I did not make that up. It's a feature on a lot of forum systems, and it's available on ours. We've decided not to employ it for a number of reasons. One big one is that apparently 99% of forums that use avatars look like poo. It's possible they look that way for other reasons, including allowing signatures that stretch for page after page, allow animated signatures and avatars, and all sorts of other crapola. We chose to keep a simple design that does not waste users' screen space and bandwidth with off-topic and gratuitous stuff.
Maybe we could convince all our users to follow some simple rules about avatars, and maybe they'd be like they are with signatures-we spend a lot of time policing signatures here.
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Glenn -----OTR/L, MOT, Tx
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: planning a comeback !
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Senior User
Join Date: Dec 2005
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The problem I've noticed on other forums is that when accompanied with signatures it makes the whole forum look like a personal billboard when you scroll down the pages. As mentioned by Glenn avatars do waste screen space when some people's posts are rather short causing everyone to scroll through more pages. I also like how this forum has the signatures on the right so that it doesn't get in the way of reading text much.
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: in front of my Mac
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No, thanks. IMHO the sleeker this place appears the better.
Indeed pics can be placed in your sig. And if it were up to me I'd get rid of those too.
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Jan 2010
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thanks ghporter. you are right because i did think that the avatars were a little crappy in the back of my head but i still thought it would have been a good idea.
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