I don’t consider myself to be sticking to any guns. On the vBB board, I elected to not have avatars show, and I would be pleased if I still had that option. On Discourse, I preferred to not have even the square with my initial, so I scanned a sheet of blank paper and uploaded that. On my chosen theme, it appears that I don’t have anything. I’ve been given to understand that it’s visible on other themes, but since I never see those themes, it makes no difference to me.