Avatars and just one person useing them

Donn

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Donn:
in reply to Cloud who said:
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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You know, the way Yahoo for example has you enter a URL during your registration process for a pic for your profile.

But a lot of the beauty of boards.ie is its simplicity so perhaps that would complicate it too much.

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PHB

I think that No Lifers Should Get to pick there own avaters, but that could imflame the ol spam,
How about if you regged before a certain date, i.e youve been on the boards long enough.

smoke.me.a.kipper

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by PHB:
How about if you regged before a certain date, i.e youve been on the boards long enough.</font>

i don't like that idea.

Avatars for No Lifers is a good idea. but peeps would just spam to become No Lifers.

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Stephen

I think the idea of people who've been here a long time getting certain priveleges like custom avatars is a good idea ... Say those who've been here a year or more?

Coyote

I think people who have been around for a time and are reglers not just 30-40 posts 2 years ago.

Coyote

DadaKopf

go look at www.thumped.com/bbs. they let u upload avatars - how about that???

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smoke.me.a.kipper

if i ever get my own avatar (hint, hint )i want this one (and i made it myself too!). it's one of the guys from Gorillaz.



custom avartars be cool, but it would really have to be done properly. and mods might have to be even more vigilant against porn and such.

well thats what i think anyway.

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RopeDrink

Oh, really?

Try this one on for size...

[img]http://acidreign_.homestead.com/files/MANKY_JAWS.gif[/img]

Thats mine (Only increased in size a little)

Im sorry, but I find it quite, erm, amusing - rofl!

Doc

I agree with Coyote

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">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 dyslexia stops me from wanting to post a lot of the time </font>

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Due to my difficulties with dyslexia I don’t post as much as some people but I do read boards a lot (and don’t Spam on them S-M-A-K). I do post regularly on topics I find interesting but it takes someone like me as long to post once then others to post ten times.

P.S. Could you not also 12 click people who have not posted on boards over a set time.(if you have to many members?)There looks like there are a lot of people who sing up post once or twice then never come back.

Kraken

Heres an idea that may be worth considering. instead of mods doing all that work why not change the code of boards so that a user can in his/her first word enter a code what ever it might be and the location of there picture and that it must be of a set size to be uploaded (code in boards to prevent pics above a certain size or from a certain location) it may sound sad but i think its possible and a simple answer to this trival problem.

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Baz_

I think it would be better to give privileges by time rather than by post count, otherwise everyone who said that post count doesn't matter (on another thread) is a damn liar.

But seriously in every other situation I can think of you get rewarded by time commited (couldn't think of a better word), rather than time wasted (i.e. spammers).

That's if you end up doing anything at all, because you would have problems from either side of the fence whatever you decide, I suggest you just sit on it and hold tight.

Baz_

RopeDrink

Well - The post count theory is unfair - I mean, you have people that have made account since the dawn of time, but only browse the boards, rather than post on them... Think it was mentioned already, sorry...

Anyway - Custom avatars would be great and should, somehow, be implemented... Just not on the post count...

Please not the post count...

...damn post count...

Kraken

Post count is a bad idea cause then ull have people like smoke-me-a-kipper who since feb the 1st has now over 1000 posts that is sad and spamming at the same time.

smoke.me.a.kipper

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Presto:
Post count is a bad idea cause then ull have people like smoke-me-a-kipper who since feb the 1st has now over 1000 posts that is sad and spamming at the same time.</font>

funnily eneough, presto, to be honest i actually agree with you.

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Kraken

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by smoke-me-a-kipper:
funnily eneough, presto, to be honest i actually agree with you.
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but your a good boy now. honest

Jug-A-Lug

All the Mod's should get personal avatar's and some of the more upstanding members of the community, this doesnt mean post count....but post quality.

PHB

I disagree with all the mods, and upstanding members would result in big ol flame wars.

You could however do it on somethign like all the people who have been registered for a year or more get it.

Lord Khan

ok after reading this back yet again ... I'll save The admins the bother since I run several of my own boards too and have come accross this prob.

Allowing users to upload avatars.
Reasons for: saves time on admins/mod part

Reasons Against: They could upload a picture of ANYTHING. The excuse ... sure the admin/mod can just remove it, that is just wasting their time. also you can only control the file size they upload not the height and width.

Basing Custom Avatars on Users lenght of time here or post count
Reasons for: can't think of any it's just messy and absurd.

reasons against: means Admins/mod would have to go through the process of tracking down the users time of registeration and or post count ... they can do it through the control panel ( it's about 10 clicks ), it's just messy

Allow users to specify url to avatar on their own webspace
reasons for: saves webspace on boards ( not much granted ) and low admin/mod time consumption.

reasons against: Same as allowing to upload custom avatars. how about I replace mine with a nice big swatzika('cuse the spelling) plus could be a large picture(deminsions) that can be fixed by editting the post template though

biggest problem here is the sheer number of users and posts, it would be near impossible to keep track of all custom avatar upload/supplied by users. the number of posts that go through this board at peak time is pretty high.

I personally have an option where users can upload an custom gif file to a seperate dir I get a message telling me that there is one and if check it out if it's ok I make it their custom avatar ( actually takes like 5 seconds :-)) but I only have 170-180 users so it's not a big time issue.


Personally I think those people moaning about avatar should give it a rest... and READ THE NAMES above the avatars. because if you keep complaining about this, I certainly can see cloud just removing them completely. They are there to add to the post not to become your PERSONAL trade mark. most of the avatars look pretty similar anyway being alot of simpson ones all yellow and pretty small.


if somebody is using the same avatar, just ask nicely if they wouldn't mind changing ( IF you have been using it for a good while before them ) but god sake don't act like a child and start threads like "OI!! ****** STOP STEALING MY AVATAR!" one it's not steal ... since you are using the avatar provide by another person(s) for those using simpson avatar ... or better yet you could change your avatar.

The Simpson owners could easily ask you all to stop using the simpson avatars and have more right than you asking somebody else to.

I have no problem against moderators and admins being the only ones allowed to have custom avatars ... Hell I think they should be given ones they've earned it they have all done a great job of moding these boards. while the rest of you just ***** and whine over a tiny little gif image??? seriously is it going to hurt your life that much.

satchmo

yeah, what he said

Cloud

Enough already.