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What's with the OVERSIZED avatars?
EDIT: I think the problem might not be people posting oversized avatars themselves, but some change in the software setting that used to scale them down, but does not do that anymore. I noticed that my VU-meter avatar is also larger now. My bad, but the comment stands. I will just remove my oversized female bodybuilder avatar - but I thought it was a pretty funny way to get my point across :-).
Hi guys, please don't take it the wrong way. But since we are friends here, I believe it's good for friends to be straight-forward and honest with each other. Thing is ... the new oversize avatars, to my eyes, make the site look cheaper and requires a lot more scrolling even for one-line replies (since the avatar can take 1/4 of the page alone). It reminds me of some forums where you have a lot of graphics ads all over the place - which make it distracting and hard to read. Some of the new oversized avatars are particularly puzzling - 2uberoller went from a cool pic of his system to a giant bean-like creature . I'd love to hear the story behind that . You know, hopefully, that I am not a prude by any stretch of the imagination, but some of the oversized avatars make it pretty hard to sneak a browse to the forum at work. From a distance, some threads look more like Victoria's Secret catalogs than an audio forum . With the previous size, the daily new avatar from our "Asian Persuasion" friend was like a little daily treat, but when it's 4x the previous size, it's not quite the same. I am not even going to suggest that people should change their avatar's size, but I thought I'd be remiss - and not entirely honest as a friend should be - if I didn't mention that I find them a big garish looking and that they can make browsing at work a bit of an issue. That's all. I am not going to raise this issue again in the future - thank you for listening and no hard-feelings even if the avatar size inflation continues unabated. Alberto P.S. I know the avatar pics can be turned off from the options menu in the "User CP", but it'd be a pity to lose the little personal touch that the avatars deliver with each message. Last edited by Alberto; 04-11-2009 at 09:06 PM. |
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Alberto, for crying out loud, I just ate....
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Sorry Serge, but I thought you liked brunettes .
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Yeah but not the kind you'd arm wrestle and wonder if you're gonna win....
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Alberto.......I agree with you, and that is why I have not changed the size of my elephant. I prefer the smaller avatars, too, for the reasons stated.
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Thank you Alberto, that's much better. Ahhhh....
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Serge.......I was looking to see if "she" might be a surgical wonder, and had an adams apple.
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BTW, for those of you who missed my short-lived (mercifully joke) the image below shows the avatar I put to make my point. I thought it was a pretty funny way to get the point across - but I don't want to get my friends too upset .
Anyway, I now believe that it's not that we are putting up bigger avatars, I think something has changed in the forum settings because my VU-meter avatar is also larger now . Alberto Last edited by Alberto; 04-11-2009 at 09:11 PM. |
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Dan, there is no doubt that was a dude at some point.
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I missed Alberto's temporary avatar, and am not going to open post #8's pic after those comments.
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