I think everyone should have a option for a custom avatar

Hank Scorpio · 09-09-2009 1:27am #1

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

DonkeyStyle \o/ · 09-09-2009 4:49am

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.

Tallon · 09-09-2009 5:51am

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?

Handsome Bob · 09-09-2009 8:44am

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.

Tallon · 09-09-2009 8:55am

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

Beruthiel · 09-09-2009 8:56am

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.

oscarBravo · 09-09-2009 9:02am

I think everyone should have a pony.

Beruthiel · 09-09-2009 9:04am

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.

Nerin · 09-09-2009 9:16am

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*

Kinetic^ · 09-09-2009 9:33am

oscarBravo wrote: »

I think everyone should have a pony.

No you're a pony!

Tallon · 09-09-2009 9:34am

Kinetic^ wrote: »

No you're a pony!

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

ynotdu · 09-09-2009 9:57am

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)?

Beruthiel · 09-09-2009 10:04am

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.

ynotdu · 09-09-2009 10:15am

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!

Tallon · 09-09-2009 10:21am

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

AckwelFoley · 09-09-2009 10:30am

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.

Tallon · 09-09-2009 10:33am

snyper wrote: »

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

Jay P · 09-09-2009 1:23pm

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.

ynotdu · 09-09-2009 1:28pm

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!;)

GLaDOS · 09-09-2009 3:24pm

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

javaboy · 09-09-2009 3:29pm

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?

Maximilian · 09-09-2009 3:32pm

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

Hank Scorpio · 09-09-2009 3:41pm

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?

Winters · 09-09-2009 3:46pm

Hank Scorpio · 09-09-2009 3:49pm

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?

Tallon · 09-09-2009 3:51pm

nuxxx wrote: »

p.s Are moderators allowed custom avatars?

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

Hank Scorpio · 09-09-2009 3:53pm

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

Tallon · 09-09-2009 4:15pm

Brown nosing? sorry, does not compute

Rb · 09-09-2009 4:16pm

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

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

Black Swan · 09-09-2009 4:37pm

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

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

dr.bollocko · 09-09-2009 4:55pm

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.

orestes · 09-09-2009 5:00pm

dr.bollocko wrote: »

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.

Can someone swap all of Doc Bollockos and javaboys profile details? Usernames, avatars, tags, sigs, post count, join date, the lot.

I just wanna see how long it takes for anyone to notice, including them

dr.bollocko · 09-09-2009 6:24pm

orestes wrote: »

Can someone swap all of Doc Bollockos and javaboys profile details? Usernames, avatars, tags, sigs, post count, join date, the lot.

I just wanna see how long it takes for anyone to notice, including them

You're just jealous cos we're irresistible to the wimminfolk.

orestes · 09-09-2009 6:27pm

dr.bollocko wrote: »

You're just jealous cos we're irresistible to the wimminfolk.

Now I don't know which one I'm talking to. I really didn't think this idea through the whole way

Tallon · 09-09-2009 8:04pm

Rb wrote: »

You only subbed to one up me on the avatar

This is very true, very

DonkeyStyle \o/ · 09-09-2009 8:57pm

nuxxx wrote: »

What are you on about?

Recursive anachronisms.

nuxxx wrote: »

p.s Are moderators allowed custom avatars?

It didn't come as part of the package when I was a mod, although it probably should, considering what people are giving back by modding. (ie. reading long uninteresting threads and having to decide which toys go back in which prams)

Beruthiel wrote: »

A fiver hardly breaks the bank.

This is true... and you have a whole month to settle on one.

Dudess · 09-09-2009 9:11pm

nuxxx wrote: »

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

Of course you want to be a mod - you'd hardly "top" yourself at the prospect. Also it's not "your" thread, and mods who don't subscribe don't get customised avatars.

Earthhorse · 09-09-2009 9:16pm

If people are hosting the image for their avatar on their own webspace I see no reason to not allow them have a custom avatar.

Talliesin · 09-09-2009 10:44pm

As long as they hacked the upload script to examine the first few bytes if the image was image/gif and make sure that it wasn't an animated GIF. Otherwise having so many people able to upload animated GIFs would mean that they'd keep getting through.

On the other hand, we could use the use of animated GIFs as a minority report on the user in question being a twat, and just lifetime siteban anyone who did.

Earthhorse · 09-09-2009 10:50pm

Is that difficult do you know?

I agree that the current size restrictions and restictions on animated gifs should stay.

Hank Scorpio · 10-09-2009 12:00am

Dudess wrote: »

Of course you want to be a mod - you'd hardly "top" yourself at the prospect. Also it's not "your" thread, and mods who don't subscribe don't get customised avatars.

Why is Gods name would i want to be a moderator on this website, i mean, seriously. Do i suspect some bitchyness coming from you, from what i posted in the other feedback thread? I think so :rolleyes:

I stated my opinion in the OP and become bombarded with posts which make no sence and are off topic

The_Minister · 10-09-2009 1:34am

I think if I subscribed I'd rename myself Laudenum, and make my avatar a vial and dropper.

Just let people google and then wait for the Feedback thread!

MarkMI6 · 10-09-2009 11:58am

This thread is so ****ing dumb it just gave me cancer.

Hank Scorpio · 10-09-2009 12:37pm

MarkMI6 wrote: »

This thread is so ****ing dumb it just gave me cancer.

Wow how mature using that word, go fcuk yourself

Beruthiel · 10-09-2009 12:46pm

nuxxx
Once you reduce yourself to that, you loose the argument.

Rb · 10-09-2009 1:05pm

Beruthiel wrote: »

nuxxx
Once you reduce yourself to that, you loose the argument.

Seriously?

Winters · 10-09-2009 1:40pm

Gone West · 10-09-2009 2:00pm

If everybody had the option, it would probably be abused :pac:

Tallon · 10-09-2009 2:05pm

FuzzyLogic wrote: »

If everybody had the option, it would probably be abused :pac:

Case in point! lol

Oryx · 10-09-2009 3:57pm

Jay P wrote: »

Ulster Bank are giving me €100 for opening an account.

They got in trouble for also offering tickets to a strip club with that €100.*

Animated gifs are the thing that makes me think custom avatars should not be available to all. I hate the blinking, flashing, irritating yokes.

For about a euro a week I like my blue baldy avatar. (designed by 6th, dontcha know) I think Im worth it.

*completely off topic but interesting fact.

Sparky · 10-09-2009 4:53pm

It's a good thing we are not like somethingawful forums, where there is a charge of $5 for an avatar change!

I think everyone should have a option for a custom avatar

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