Avatars and just one person useing them

Coyote · 02-05-2001 5:02pm #1

can it be set so just one person can use a Avatar.
now when i start looking at who posted stuff i see peoples Avatars first and think it's someone with the same Avatars till i see the name is diff. is there a way that just one person could use a Avatar and that would be there Avatar till they changed it.

the other thing is the size of the space to enter txt, is't far too small, and it's very hard to know what your post is going to look like when your done. there is loads of space to the right hand side of the box could it be made bigger ?

Coyote

Lord Khan · 02-05-2001 5:37pm

I tried that before on my boards ... pain in the ass ... somebody could just start multi acc and whore avatars ... or what not...

t'would be easier if you learn to read the names instead :-)

Lord Khan · 02-05-2001 5:39pm

Originally posted by Lord Khan:
I tried that before on my boards ... pain in the ass ... somebody could just start multi acc and whore avatars ... or what not...

t'would be easier if you learn to read the names instead :-)

as for the textbox ... just means adjusting the column width in the perl script

Bard · 02-05-2001 5:52pm

On the text box item- the width of the post/reply textarea box seems to be optimised for 640x480. About 75px width could be added to it before it would be too big for that res.

Bard

"We do know it was we who scorched the sky..."

K!LL!@N · 02-05-2001 6:01pm

You would need to be pretty sad to whore avatars ffs!
And, who in their right mind still browses in 640x480?!?

Bard · 02-05-2001 6:09pm

Originally posted by K!LL!@N:
You would need to be pretty sad to whore avatars ffs!
And, who in their right mind still browses in 640x480?!?

Dunno who... I've got my screen res set to about twice that, at 1280x1024, but I still zoom in on the boards.ie pages using Opera's handy zoom function... not quite as far as the equivalent of 640x480 - 800x600 equiv. perhaps.

Whatever about 'who still uses 640x480 fer fekks sake, mon!', a well designed web site should look well and fit adequately in *any* resolution.

In contrast, yes, as a web designer by trade, I *do* think that 640x480 is usually too low a res. to be designing for. However, I think the textarea in question here is plenty wide enough for it's purposes... maybe make it longer, height-wise...

Bard

"We do know it was we who scorched the sky..."

smoke.me.a.kipper · 03-05-2001 12:26am

that avatar thingy is a good idea. i generally associate certain avatars to a user (e.g. bard and hobbes)

Celt · 03-05-2001 7:12pm

THey dont need to change anything, with the avatar hack, just rename the avatar as <usernumber>.gif.jpg etc. and that will only be available to that person.

Coyote · 03-05-2001 9:42pm

come on guys it would be much better if
Avatars were person by person
go on install that hack for it

Coyote

Cloud · 04-05-2001 11:37am

As you can see from my avatar, it IS possible to have a custom avatar for a particular user.

But, I am not going to start renaming avatars for each user, it's just too time consuming. Maybe one of the other admins will feel differently, I doubt it. We may consider custom avatars for those in the No Life category.

There would be a hack to allow people to specify avatars from a different site or URL - that would look messy.

smoke.me.a.kipper · 04-05-2001 11:54am

if you had the custon avatar hack, couldn't you set it to only work with images of a certain size (h/w and filesize)??

having custom avatars for no-lifers might encourage spam.

Cloud · 04-05-2001 2:17pm

You made me say it! I don't trust you :P

Coyote · 04-05-2001 4:55pm

it's not that i want a diff Avatar from what you have given us there is loads to pick from which is great, what i wanted was if i pick avatar X then no other user on the boards could use it, ie it would become my avatar till i picked a diff one.

Logic1 use's a avatar and ever time i see it on the boads i think it's him, but there is a other user who use's it as well, so i keep thinking it's logic1 when it's not.

you could reset all the avatar befor seting it up then the first person who gets it can keep it till the other person changes.

Coyote

smoke.me.a.kipper · 04-05-2001 5:13pm

Originally posted by Cloud:
You made me say it! I don't trust you :P

you don't trust me??

what did i ever do??

Lucy_la_morte · 04-05-2001 5:37pm

You spammed

Non.

Lucy la morte.

Stephen · 04-05-2001 7:04pm

I think he's more afraid of people putting naughty things like porn in for custom avatars

LoBo · 04-05-2001 7:31pm

Originally posted by K!LL!@N:
You would need to be pretty sad to whore avatars ffs!
And, who in their right mind still browses in 640x480?!?

someone using a small-screen laptop might be, or someone surfing with a palmtop device.

DUH!

LoBo

Cloud · 05-05-2001 12:35am

You could but cramped images or improperly resized images look bad too.

smoke.me.a.kipper · 05-05-2001 12:47am

but if i or anyone else took time to choose an avatar, then surley i or them would want it to look right.

Ry · 05-05-2001 9:05am

I actually agree with Coyote and disagree.
I too associate people with their AVs just a sec ago i thought Mr.Tickle had posted and then noticed it was lobo. Ive also done it with OJ and some other bloke and Gambler and some other bloke

. So yes it can be a bit annoying lol. BUT I do like havin the choice! Theres another AV i like that i wouldnt like to see locked to someone else

Citer le Cordeau "JennyRooba"

RopeDrink · 05-05-2001 5:03pm

Originally posted by Cloud:
We may consider custom avatars for those in the No Life category.

There would be a hack to allow people to specify avatars from a different site or URL - that would look messy.

Good Gosh - Custom Avatars only for those who dedicated their souls to uploading text onto the boards... Thats... Understandable, but saddening

I've got an amazing pic that I'd use, if I was given the chance... Oh well...

SheroN · 05-05-2001 5:55pm

Anyone uses my avatar i'll **** them down.
grrrr
hear me roar
RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR

logic1 · 05-05-2001 8:38pm

Yeah I think Clouds idea of giving the no lifers their own avatar if they requested is a good idea. TBH giving everyone a private or custom avatar is out of the question due to the sheer number of users on the boards. The lads work enough as it is without having to add a couple of thousand private avatars for specific people hehe

anyway it does get annoying when ppl mistake u for someone else based on avatar but hey thats why the names there..

it's really me this time coyote hehe

.logic.

smoke.me.a.kipper · 05-05-2001 10:12pm

Originally posted by Stephen:
I think he's more afraid of people putting naughty things like porn in for custom avatars

true. that could be a problem.

Coyote · 05-05-2001 10:20pm

Thats not logic1
logic1 uses a diff Avatar

OK for the last time
i did not ask if people could have there own Avatar.

What I said was that just one person could use the avatar out of the 1500 that cloud let us us.

IE no one but me coudl use Coyote avatar
not new or diff avatars just the one's there all ready.

Coyote

smoke.me.a.kipper · 05-05-2001 10:41pm

Originally posted by Coyote:
OK for the last time
i did not ask if people could have there own Avatar.

the duscussion just sorta changed.

syringe · 06-05-2001 2:06pm

Loggers is right! There's too many people on the boards unless you plan making more avatars or something. The people who join last are stuck with all the crap ones, like 'The Count' from Sesame Street.

Anyway, who else uses the Coyote symbol?
Crap, just read Coyote's last post, LOL

Yeah actually that's a good idea for people who don't want to share

If the leaves falling from the trees in Autumn were gold, or the white foam on the waves silver, Fionn would give it all away.

[This message has been edited by syringe (edited 06-05-2001).]

logic1 · 06-05-2001 2:28pm

Yea I understand you just want to use the exisitng avatars coyote but it would be alot of work. I don't know how many people use boards on a regular basis, maybe we could get a ballpark figure from Cloud but I know it got well in excess of 500,000 impressions last month. That's half a million impressions in one month now I know impressions doesn't directly indicate the amount of posters or regular unique visitors but even if it was just a fraction of that numer like 5,000 regular posters.. how long would it take to rename 5,000 files!! And that's not even including new members that sign up every day... hell it'd be a full time job just assigning avatars to people.

Again if there was some cut off limit on when you became eligible for a custom avatar that'd be a bit easier. Like after a 1000 or 1,500 posts you get to have an avatar assigned to you but it'd have to be a custom one because there may be others using the same avatar as you already.. so in this case you'd still have to change avatars thus maybe loosing abit of your familiarty with the avatar you had used for the past 1000 posts.

All in all at the moment I can't see this as a very feasible idea.

.logic.

Coyote · 06-05-2001 6:08pm

I do not see how hard it would be
all you need to do is have a list of the Avatars in use
then when people go to pick there Avatar
the list of avatar that they can pick just does not have the one's in use.

sounds easy to me

Coyote

Coyote · 06-05-2001 6:12pm

one other thing
i do not see why just people who post loads
should get them if you went by your way
i have been around more that 99% of the people on the boards. and i am one of the top readers on the boards, (ie last year when they did up the stats, i came over indigo the ISP

my dislexy stops me from wanting to post a lot of the time

Coyote

Donn · 06-05-2001 6:54pm

Originally posted by Cloud:

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There would be a hack to allow people to specify avatars from a different site or URL - that would look messy.

If you did go with that, perhaps people could keep their custom avatar on their boards.ie webspace so it's simpler to access.

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Avatars and just one person useing them

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