# Avatar criticism thread **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 12, 2018, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatar-criticism-thread/819453 "2018-08-12T04:01:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 13
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2018, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatar-criticism-thread/819453/241 "2018-09-01T04:00:29Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > Could someone do me a favor and tell E-DUB how to fix his avatar for Chrome users? Download the image and rename it without any commas, then upload it again. Can you see me now? ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2018, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatar-criticism-thread/819453/242 "2018-09-01T04:02:08Z")
> [@E-DUB](#): > > Can you see me now? I’ve been seeing your avatar just fine all along (Firefox). ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2018, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatar-criticism-thread/819453/243 "2018-09-01T04:12:02Z")
> [@E-DUB](#): > > Can you see me now? Yep. But your avatar is a bit blurry. This one’s a little clearer, if you like it. [![](https://i.imgur.com/1znRv3t.png) ](https://i.imgur.com/1znRv3t.png) ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2018, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatar-criticism-thread/819453/244 "2018-09-01T07:47:49Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > God, I hate to know what you think of me.🙂 🙂 well that’s the thing, with the best will in the world I don’t and I try not to, not beyond the current response in a specific thread anyway. I can’t bring to mind any views you hold, past posts you’ve made or (unless it is immediately clear from you name) whether you are male, female, black, white, straight or gay. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2018, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatar-criticism-thread/819453/245 "2018-09-01T11:42:54Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > Yep. But your avatar is a bit blurry. This one’s a little clearer, if you like it. > > [Imgur: The magic of the Internet](https://i.imgur.com/1znRv3t.png) Holy comets, that almost looks like a Space Whale! ---
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2018, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatar-criticism-thread/819453/246 "2018-09-01T15:52:11Z")
All of our images are a bit blurry, are there any 50x50 that are sharp? ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2018, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatar-criticism-thread/819453/247 "2018-09-02T06:02:18Z")
Mine’s sharp enough. 'Cause I look good;)! (4 times) ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2018, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatar-criticism-thread/819453/248 "2018-09-02T06:41:25Z")
> [@Novelty\_Bobble](#): > > I don’t have one and shan’t be getting one. > > I’m not a fan and for some reason my default settings across all my devices mean I don’t see them. > > That’s fine by me. I don’t remember names very well without triggers so when I read posts the name of the poster means very little to me in terms of past views and comments. I find it easy to skim over those names so I come to each post on its own merits as much as possible. > > If I had a little picture or colourful image to prompt me I think that may more easily trigger prejudiced associations for specific posters and I don’t want that. > > Apologies, sounds pompous I know, but the value I get from this board would be diminished if I started dismissing valid points out of hand just because of who posted it. Not at all. You’re a sound, level-headed man. Good on you. ---
**Author:** ![Teuton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/teuton/32/3864_2.png) [@Teuton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teuton)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2018, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatar-criticism-thread/819453/249 "2018-09-02T07:11:42Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Mine’s sharp enough. 'Cause I look good;)! > (4 times) If we do get 100x100, I would hope that your pic will be your current pic repeated 4 times. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2018, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatar-criticism-thread/819453/250 "2018-09-03T02:18:09Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Here you go. Proper size and everything. > [https://sc01.alicdn.com/kf/HTB17zqSeYsTMeJjSszdq6AEupXaq/High-Quality-Reflective-Triangle-Road-Safety-Traffic.jpg\_50x50.jpg](https://sc01.alicdn.com/kf/HTB17zqSeYsTMeJjSszdq6AEupXaq/High-Quality-Reflective-Triangle-Road-Safety-Traffic.jpg_50x50.jpg) > [@BigT](#): > > That just looks like a generic traffic sign to me. > > I’d recommend [this image](https://i.imgur.com/3lKTGsH.png) instead. It’s the sticker that’s actually put on slow moving vehicles, and came up when I searched for **caution slow moving vehicle** on Google. > > [Imgur: The magic of the Internet](https://i.imgur.com/3lKTGsH.png) Thank you both. Especially **running coach** , who went to the trouble of emailing me a properly-sized image. Very grateful. Part of the problem is that I’m trying to do all this on my Kindle, as we suffered a break in a few months ago, and the thief got off with our computer. Ignored my wife’s expensive camera, my gold coin, and her real jewelry, but stole costume pearls, a few euro notes, a 30 y.o. kid’s bike, and a seven y.o. laptops with a cracked screen. Not a criminal mastermind, apparently. Anyway, trying to do this on a Kindle is apparently beyond my capabilities. I chose my username back when people were still calling the internet “the information superhighway”, and, given my noncomprehension of computer technology, I figured that on that superhighway, I was the one in the buggy with the _Caution: Slow Moving Vehicle_ sign. So, while I’m too clueless to upload a picture of a _Slow Moving Vehicle_ sign, I can at least recognize irony. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2018, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatar-criticism-thread/819453/251 "2018-09-03T02:39:45Z")
> [@Teuton](#): > > If we do get 100x100, I would hope that your pic will be your current pic repeated 4 times. That is a current pic.( kinda 1 year or so old) Taken in a McDonald’s drive through. By the lil’wrekker. I played with it on my phone. Andy Warhol didn’t really do it. (;)) I probably am gonna change it anyway. I am looking around for something. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2018, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatar-criticism-thread/819453/252 "2018-09-03T20:03:27Z")
Are those horns? ---
**Author:** ![Measure\_for\_Measure](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/measure_for_measure/32/557_2.png) [@Measure\_for\_Measure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Measure_for_Measure)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2018, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatar-criticism-thread/819453/253 "2018-09-03T21:50:58Z")
Noah Smith on twitter: [INDENT] One bad thing about Twitter is that because people have fixed avatars, it’s very easy to misconstrue people’s tone by looking at their avatar. For example, because my avatar is William Butler Yeats looking sour-faced, everything I tweet seems a little sour and pouty. [/INDENT] He works through other pictorial examples. [https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1036686747403350016](https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1036686747403350016) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatar-criticism-thread/819453.md?page=12)