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I think everyone should have a option for a custom avatar

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  • 09-09-2009 2:27am
    #1
    Hank Scorpio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,631 ✭✭✭✭


    I think everyone should be allowed to upload a custom avatar, not just subscribers!

    Anyone forum im a member in, on the internet, which is alot, allows me upload my very own custom picture!

    Tonight i went looking through the available ones cause i fancied a change and there all sh1te!

    Having to pay for a 2kb image is just petty :(
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    #2
    DonkeyStyle \o/
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,145 ✭✭✭DonkeyStyle \o/


    Ch'yeah, selecting from a list of predefined avatars is so 1999.
    Having said that, saying things are "so <insert year here>" is so 2003, so I'll just get my coat... which is like so over anyway... just get over it.


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    #3
    Tallon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,565 ✭✭✭✭Tallon


    You've been stayin in boards.ie's spare room, rent free, for 2 years, chatting to people and having a bit of fun!
    Do you not think its time you started paying a bit of rent before you go asking to change the wallpaper or move the furniture?


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    #4
    Handsome Bob
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,905 ✭✭✭✭Handsome Bob


    There are countless forums out there that allow custom avatars, name changes, changing of tags underneath your username, etc etc for free. I find it petty to be honest, and I think that just denying access to certain boards is more than enough in enticing people to subscribe. Personally I would never subscribe in order to get something that I have for free on many other forums.


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    #5
    Tallon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,565 ✭✭✭✭Tallon


    You can get access to everything without subscribing, you just have to ask!

    The only thing available by subscribing is the S&S forum (crap) and the First class forum (not missing much)

    Subscribing is to keep boards alive and support all the good work its doing / has done

    Having a custom avatar is just a bonus


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    Beruthiel
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 42,362 Mod ✭✭✭✭Beruthiel


    nuxxx wrote: »
    Having to pay for a 2kb image is just petty :(

    A fiver hardly breaks the bank.
    Anyway, it won't be happening, it's part of the subscribers package.


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    oscarBravo
    Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 28,804 Mod ✭✭✭✭oscarBravo


    I think everyone should have a pony.


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    Beruthiel
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 42,362 Mod ✭✭✭✭Beruthiel


    oscarBravo wrote: »
    I think everyone should have a pony.

    I'd prefer a villa in the south of France. With a pool.
    Make it happen.


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    #9
    Nerin
    Registered Users Posts: 10,523 ✭✭✭✭Nerin


    to be honest, i don't think anyone who subscribes does so to get any of that stuff. Any time i've subscribed its to help the site i've gotten so much out of. If i was gonna subscribe just to get something, it wouldn't be any of that stuff. *shrug*


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    Kinetic^
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,249 ✭✭✭✭Kinetic^


    oscarBravo wrote: »
    I think everyone should have a pony.

    No you're a pony!


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    #11
    Tallon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,565 ✭✭✭✭Tallon


    Kinetic^ wrote: »
    No you're a pony!

    lets not turn this into "I know you are, but what am I?"


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    ynotdu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,817 ✭✭✭ynotdu


    Tallon wrote: »
    You've been stayin in boards.ie's spare room, rent free, for 2 years, chatting to people and having a bit of fun!
    Do you not think its time you started paying a bit of rent before you go asking to change the wallpaper or move the furniture?


    Lol Tallon although i have some sympathy with the OP,reading this made me laugh so much coffee came streaming down my nose:D

    the off putting thing to some people subscribing i would think might be i dont know of a way it can be paid without the member losing their anonimity to boards.ie(staff)?


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    Beruthiel
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 42,362 Mod ✭✭✭✭Beruthiel


    ynotdu wrote: »
    the off putting thing to some people subscribing i would think might be i dont know of a way it can be paid without the member losing their anonimity to boards.ie(staff)?

    It's done via paypal.
    I cannot see what the staff have to do with that.


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    ynotdu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,817 ✭✭✭ynotdu


    Beruthiel wrote: »
    It's done via paypal.
    I cannot see what the staff have to do with that.

    Oh ok,thought name and adress would be nescessary,had not really looked into it, just as i said the post was very amusing!

    cheers!


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    Tallon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,565 ✭✭✭✭Tallon


    ynotdu wrote: »
    Oh ok,thought name and adress would be nescessary,had not really looked into it, just as i said the post was very amusing!

    cheers!

    just post your national sort code and account number in the AH forum and your subscription should be setup within 24 hours


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    #16
    AckwelFoley
    Registered Users Posts: 12,556 ✭✭✭✭AckwelFoley


    Beruthiel wrote: »
    A fiver hardly breaks the bank.
    Anyway, it won't be happening, it's part of the subscribers package.

    actually, name me a bank in this country that has a fiver and i'll subscribe.


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    #17
    Tallon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,565 ✭✭✭✭Tallon


    snyper wrote: »
    actually, name me a bank in this country that has a fiver and i'll subscribe.

    12404777503tpQ3c.jpg


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    #18
    Jay P
    Registered Users Posts: 4,944 ✭✭✭Jay P


    snyper wrote: »
    actually, name me a bank in this country that has a fiver and i'll subscribe.

    Ulster Bank are giving me €100 for opening an account. AIB are giving me €50 for opening an account. They both seem to have more than a fiver.


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    #19
    ynotdu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,817 ✭✭✭ynotdu


    Jay P wrote: »
    Ulster Bank are giving me €100 for opening an account. AIB are giving me €50 for opening an account. They both seem to have more than a fiver.


    You have e150 to bank:eek:

    address please!;)


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    #20
    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,223 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    At this stage I've had my pleb avatar so long that I wouldn't change it even if I do subscribe.

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



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    #21
    javaboy
    Registered Users Posts: 15,094 ✭✭✭✭javaboy


    oscarBravo wrote: »
    I think everyone should have a pony.
    Beruthiel wrote: »
    I'd prefer a villa in the south of France. With a pool.
    Make it happen.

    Who's taking the pony to France?


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    #22
    Maximilian
    Legal Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 5,400 Mod ✭✭✭✭Maximilian


    I'm sorry I read this thread. Now I want a pony. And a hat.


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    #23
    Hank Scorpio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,631 ✭✭✭✭Hank Scorpio


    DonkeyStyle \o/ wrote: »
    Ch'yeah, selecting from a list of predefined avatars is so 1999.
    Having said that, saying things are "so <insert year here>" is so 2003, so I'll just get my coat... which is like so over anyway... just get over it.

    What are you on about?


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    #24
    Winters
    Registered Users Posts: 14,761 ✭✭✭✭Winters


    customavatars.jpg


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    #25
    Hank Scorpio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,631 ✭✭✭✭Hank Scorpio


    Ill stick with me orb avatar so, not gona fork out 50euro a year over it

    Have a nice day!

    p.s Are moderators allowed custom avatars?


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    #26
    Tallon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,565 ✭✭✭✭Tallon


    nuxxx wrote: »
    p.s Are moderators allowed custom avatars?

    You wanna become a mod now, don't you?


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    #27
    Hank Scorpio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,631 ✭✭✭✭Hank Scorpio


    Tallon wrote: »
    You wanna become a mod now, don't you?

    I would truly top myself before that happened, stop brown nosing and get the hell out of my thread


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    #28
    Tallon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,565 ✭✭✭✭Tallon


    Brown nosing? sorry, does not compute


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    #29
    Rb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,277 ✭✭✭✭Rb


    Tallon wrote: »
    Subscribing is to keep boards alive and support all the good work its doing / has done

    You only subbed to one up me on the avatar :p

    Seriously though, with the amount of cash boards makes whoring off ad space, I wouldn't worry about subscribing to support the site.


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    #30
    Black Swan
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 47,258 CMod ✭✭✭✭Black Swan


    I'll show you my pony, if you show me your pony first!


    Oh... on topic... I have grown used to my silly lighthouse.


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    #31
    dr.bollocko
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,943 Mod ✭✭✭✭dr.bollocko


    Pick one username. One avatar. Stay with that forever. Avatars and usernames are grouped together in my head. Change one or the other and I have either lost all respect for you or have absolutely no idea who you are. I think people shouldn't be allowed change anything. It's not my fault you picked a crap username. You'll have to live with it.

    Please don't change my username again.


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