Emultion_Rawks
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I see Tom (tomlevens) has an avatar. Does this mean that avatars are allowed just for staff, or has the avatar option now been enabled for everyone?
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Avatars Allowed...?
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Emultion_Rawks
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Just in-case people think I'm mad... 
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We're just trying things out at the moment. At this point in time avatars are not available for the general public.
Sorry.
TOM
Sorry.
TOM
Emultion_Rawks
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Oh right, I was just wondering...
Actually goes very well with the whole forum look. Though not all avatars would...
Actually goes very well with the whole forum look. Though not all avatars would...
Emultion_Rawks
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Or a forced background selection, so that while people can choose the avatar of their choice, there are limits...enjoilax said:
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The thing is, with everybody having avatars AND signatures threads would be cluttered with them, taking away from the real content... the posts.enjoilax said:
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This is purely a test. Nothing more at the moment - you all had your say in the Avatar v Sig thread which is now closed.
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Emultion_Rawks
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But for example Tom, you have an avatar and a sig, and it doesn't look cluttered.
But if you really worried about that, you could have people make the choice between an avatar and a sig, and if they choose an avatar, they could still have writing in their sig, but no picture.
But if you really worried about that, you could have people make the choice between an avatar and a sig, and if they choose an avatar, they could still have writing in their sig, but no picture.
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If everybody had it it would be a different story altogether. Anyway, as Bob has said, this is just a test.Emultion_Rawks said:
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Its a conspiracy against signatures I say..........................
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You're all out to get me............................
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*twitching maddly*
You're all out to get me............................
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i would really enjoy avatars. other forums that i go to have sigs and avatars.. and it dosent take away from the quality of the posts or anything. I dont see a problem if there is offsite hosting.
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Currently (as has been said previously) only the staff are going to have these (avatar-like) rank images. This may be reconsidered at some point in the future, but for the moment you will just have to get by with sigs.
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I'm not fussed about having avys really.. but thats utter rubbish, to be frank. I can accept that they'd take up bandwidth but everyone having an avy wouldn't make the forums any worse aesthetically. Its not like people would be so awed by a little picture under our usernames that the actual posts would be ignored.
Emultion_Rawks
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I know you're making a serious post, and I back your points, but I can just imagine someone staring at an avatar not caring about the post.Sypher said:
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