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LOG IN Forgot Login? Register General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board Search Terms:  Search Within:  topics posts since 2019 2018 posts 2017 posts 2016 posts 2015 posts 2014 posts 2013 posts 2012 posts 2011 posts 2010 posts 2009 posts 2008 posts 2007 posts 2006 posts 2005 posts 2004 posts 2003 posts 2002 posts 2001 posts 2000 posts users  search tips  You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2 3 4 5      General Discussion: Why I think avatars can be rather ridiculous.     1 2 3    NEXT   LAST   Last Post   Posted:   Apr 6, 2008 - 3:39 PM     By:   Tall Guy   (Member) I refer you to MikeJ's post on the Charlton Heston thread. A perfectly innocent avatar, to be sure, when talking about film music, but hardly appropriate to accompany a post that starts: "I can't articulate my grief over hearing this news." Not a dig about that one poster in particular, incidentally...    Posted:   Apr 6, 2008 - 3:41 PM     By:   Thor   (Member) I'm just happy they can be turned off.    Posted:   Apr 6, 2008 - 11:47 PM     By:   Tall Guy   (Member) I've kept them on up to now, I suppose to try to see the attraction. You get pictures of Morricone next to posts about Goldsmith and vice versa, hilarity smileys in tandem with eulogies for dead celebrities... Much better without them, in my opinion.    Posted:   Apr 6, 2008 - 11:57 PM     By:   Michael24   (Member) Personally, I like them. A good way to identify certain users (and yourself) when you're skimming through long threads looking for a particular post. I don't mind them.    Posted:   Apr 7, 2008 - 12:00 AM     By:   ZapBrannigan   (Member) Personally, I like them. A good way to identify certain users (and yourself) when you're skimming through long threads looking for a particular post. I don't mind them. That's right. In a long thread, avatars make it much easier to scan for posts by the writers you "have time for right now."    Posted:   Apr 7, 2008 - 12:06 AM     By:   MikeJ   (Member) I refer you to MikeJ's post on the Charlton Heston thread. A perfectly innocent avatar, to be sure, when talking about film music, but hardly appropriate to accompany a post that starts: "I can't articulate my grief over hearing this news." Ya know, I didn't think about the avatar until after I saw my post... and while it might not be appropriate, by the time you get to the end of my post, there is cause to be happy. I'm glad we have the avatars. It helps give the board some personality.    Posted:   Apr 7, 2008 - 12:46 AM     By:   pp312   (Member) I don't care for avatars at all, but I especially hate animated ones. It's very distracting trying to read text while something is moving in the corner of your eye.    Posted:   Apr 7, 2008 - 1:09 AM     By:   Jehannum   (Member) There's a bit of a grumpy old man vibe going on here! I use this avatar in various forums. I think it suits me. It also celebrates one of my favourite artists, Lin Streeter. The point has already been made that it's easier to locate your own and others' posts; a major advantage. There's almost no downside to avatars except disagreeing with individuals' choices of pictures.    Posted:   Apr 7, 2008 - 1:47 AM     By:   dogplant   (Member)    Posted:   Apr 7, 2008 - 1:57 AM     By:   The Mutant   (Member) hahahahhahaah    Posted:   Apr 7, 2008 - 2:44 AM     By:   kingtolkien   (Member) I like them!    Posted:   Apr 7, 2008 - 4:30 AM     By:   TerraEpon   (Member) The main problem is that in the context of THIS forum, because there's no other info like post count, etc., that most other forums have, the avatars really stick out. So it really does look kinda ugly. Other forums they kinda blend in with the scenery as it were... (of course, since we have people regularly quoting large pictures for no reason, I guess most others don't really care. Odd that on a forum about music people wouldn't care about aesthetics) -Joshua    Posted:   Apr 7, 2008 - 4:42 AM     By:   pp312   (Member) I'm just happy they can be turned off. How?    Posted:   Apr 7, 2008 - 5:40 AM     By:   vinylscrubber   (Member) To those with the animated ones--Please DO turn them off. It's highly distracting to scroll down through a bunch of repeated avatars blinking, jumping, shooting, etc. I do remember you folks from your name, you know. Alzheimers hasn't gone that far yet!    Posted:   Apr 7, 2008 - 6:22 AM     By:   Mikhail   (Member) I turned them off post haste.    Posted:   Apr 7, 2008 - 6:34 AM     By:   Sir Patrick Spens   (Member) You can't say no to Kerr Avon. You just can't. It's just a shame that I can't convert the file properly.    Posted:   Apr 7, 2008 - 6:39 AM     By:   Scott McOldsmith   (Member) Avatars are not to be taken seriously (unless, I suppose, they are particularly offensive). I have a disturbing picture of a shirtless older William Shatner. This is no reflection on anything other than I find the picture amusing. Rarely does an avatar reflect the posts written.    Posted:   Apr 7, 2008 - 6:57 AM     By:   Nick Haysom   (Member) I'm just happy they can be turned off. How? Preferences at upper right.    Posted:   Apr 7, 2008 - 6:59 AM     By:   Nick Haysom   (Member) Avatars are not to be taken seriously (unless, I suppose, they are particularly offensive). I have a disturbing picture of a shirtless older William Shatner. This is no reflection on anything other than I find the picture amusing. So it is appropriate to post something you find "disturbing" as your associated image is it? I found it amusing the 1st time but not the 31st. Thank god these wretched things can be turned off. Their only value is revealing the mental age of posters.    Posted:   Apr 7, 2008 - 7:31 AM     By:   Steve Johnson   (Member) This thread is a riot. Some good laughs here.     General Discussion: Why I think avatars can be rather ridiculous.    < 1 2 3  > >>  Go to page:  1 2 3 4 5   First Post    General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2 3 4 5

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