# Avatards **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 5, 2010, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatards/556161 "2010-10-05T19:22:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 19
**Author:** ![Mijin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mijin/32/9369_2.png) [@Mijin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mijin)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2010, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatards/556161/361 "2010-10-08T23:30:04Z")
> [@begbert2](#): > > You’re clearly not speaking for **Shot From Guns** , since they asserted that they _could_ recognize notable people by name, by virtue of their notable behavior. I’m not sure that you’ve followed my point here, since I also think that I can recognize notable people by name. e.g. If **lekatt** were to join a thread, I’d remember that he is religious and has a deep interest in NDEs. But I’m talking about _within_ a thread. Beyond 4 or 5 people and 2 pages of discussion it gets to be a chore following who said what and how people’s positions might have changed. Every thread looks like [this](http://yfrog.com/n1messop) to me. ---
**Author:** ![OtisCampbellWasRight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/d78d45/32.png) [@OtisCampbellWasRight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtisCampbellWasRight)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2010, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatards/556161/362 "2010-10-09T00:39:22Z")
Dear Lord, I just waded through eight pages of dick-shriveling nonsense to be sure I didn’t repeat something some one else already had said. But no; it was the suck-a-thon that it warranted. On a marginally related note, my wife just forced me to watch the high-budget POS that is Avatar. James Cameron spent 330 MILLION dollars to make this high tech bowel movement. 330 fucking million. I could crap a better movie for 1% of that, but the point is… That amount of money would buy… what, dinner for a couple zillion hungry people. People who may not have blue skin but are hungry nonetheless. But Repubs/conservatives are the assholes in the world… I’m gonna not buy fire insurance for $75 and juggle flaming matchsticks. Good thing I don’t live in rural Tennesee, where my civic choices might be judged by limosine liberals. And avatars BLOW, unless you are F-ing twelve years old. Mods, knock yourselves out. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2010, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatards/556161/363 "2010-10-09T00:50:51Z")
> [@acsenray](#): > > I’m not just worried about seeing the avatars. It’s the people. If there are potential posters out there who _will just not post_ on a message board that doesn’t have avatars, then I would prefer that they continue to be denied the opportunity to use avatars, because we are better off without people who are _that_ fucking shallow. I don’t have an avatar, and I assure you I will not post unless I have … Oh shit. ---
**Author:** ![Mijin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mijin/32/9369_2.png) [@Mijin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mijin)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2010, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatards/556161/364 "2010-10-09T01:04:19Z")
> [@OtisCampbellWasRight](#): > > Dear Lord, > > I just waded through eight pages of dick-shriveling nonsense to be sure I didn’t repeat something some one else already had said. But no; it was the suck-a-thon that it warranted. > > On a marginally related note, my wife just forced me to watch the high-budget POS that is Avatar. James Cameron spent 330 MILLION dollars to make this high tech bowel movement. 330 fucking million. I could crap a better movie for 1% of that, but the point is.. That amount of money would buy… what, dinner for a couple zillion hungry people. People who may not have blue skin but are hungry nonetheless. But Repubs/conservatives are the assholes in the world… > > I’m gonna not buy fire insurance for $75 and juggle flaming matchsticks. Good thing I don’t live in rural Tennesee, where my civic choices might be judged by limosine liberals. > > And avatars BLOW, unless you are F-ing twelve years old. > > Mods, knock yourselves out. What an insightful, and entirely coherent post. You see people? This is the kind of eloquence we might lose if we allow avatars. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2010, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatards/556161/365 "2010-10-09T03:05:12Z")
> [@Evil\_Captor](#): > > Seven pages long over this. WRT avatars: I have frequented boards that allow avatars, there seems to be a lowest common denominator effect on them: someone always finds it amusing to have an avatar that involves a naked body part, or something that looks like a naked body part, if rules forbid them, and someone always has to have turd avatar, a shitting avatar, a peeing avatar, etc., whatever the epitome of bad taste for them is, they have to have it as their avatar. This applies even on boards where the majority of the avatars are tasteful. > > Since someone’s idea of bad taste will INEVITABLY coincide with yours, any board with avatars will repeatedly offend your tastes, whatever they are. Over and over and over again. It’s very much like usernames … someone’s always gotta be Mister Turd, or Pussy McLickLick, or Sir Barfalot, etc. We cannot escape from the onslaught of idiot user names, but we can at least avoid the visual pollution offered by avatars. > > So, bad idea overall. This from the guy who was suspended because he wouldn’t shut up about his bondage fetish. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2010, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatards/556161/366 "2010-10-10T01:22:42Z")
> [@OtisCampbellWasRight](#): > > Dear Lord, > > I just waded through eight pages of dick-shriveling nonsense to be sure I didn’t repeat something some one else already had said. But no; it was the suck-a-thon that it warranted. > > On a marginally related note, my wife just forced me to watch the high-budget POS that is Avatar. James Cameron spent 330 MILLION dollars to make this high tech bowel movement. 330 fucking million. I could crap a better movie for 1% of that, but the point is.. That amount of money would buy… what, dinner for a couple zillion hungry people. People who may not have blue skin but are hungry nonetheless. But Repubs/conservatives are the assholes in the world… > > I’m gonna not buy fire insurance for $75 and juggle flaming matchsticks. Good thing I don’t live in rural Tennesee, where my civic choices might be judged by limosine liberals. > > And avatars BLOW, unless you are F-ing twelve years old. > > Mods, knock yourselves out. So what you’re saying is you don’t want avatars of a blue-skinned James Cameron. Got it. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2010, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatards/556161/367 "2010-10-10T01:37:26Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > So what you’re saying is you don’t want avatars of a blue-skinned James Cameron. Got it. 🙂 Don’t mind Otis – he’s one of the Blue Fugates of Hazard-Troublesome-Balls Creek, Kentucky. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2010, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatards/556161/368 "2010-10-10T02:45:23Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > > [@Evil\_Captor](#): > > > > Seven pages long over this. WRT avatars: I have frequented boards that allow avatars, there seems to be a lowest common denominator effect on them: someone always finds it amusing to have an avatar that involves a naked body part, or something that looks like a naked body part, if rules forbid them, and someone always has to have turd avatar, a shitting avatar, a peeing avatar, etc., whatever the epitome of bad taste for them is, they have to have it as their avatar. This applies even on boards where the majority of the avatars are tasteful. > > > > Since someone’s idea of bad taste will INEVITABLY coincide with yours, any board with avatars will repeatedly offend your tastes, whatever they are. Over and over and over again. It’s very much like usernames … someone’s always gotta be Mister Turd, or Pussy McLickLick, or Sir Barfalot, etc. We cannot escape from the onslaught of idiot user names, but we can at least avoid the visual pollution offered by avatars. > > > > So, bad idea overall. > > This from the guy who was suspended because he wouldn’t shut up about his bondage fetish. :rolleyes: I have my standards of taste, like anyone else. My point was, however, it was more democratic to let those who like avatars have them, since as was pointed out, you can easily elect not to see them. I don’t see any point to YOUR post other than to stir shit up. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2010, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatards/556161/369 "2010-10-10T02:53:38Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > > [@Evil\_Captor](#): > > > > I have seen plenty of usernames on the Dope that lasted for very long periods of time that were disgusting to me. > > Out of curiosity, can you give me any examples? Cant remember any offhand, but there was one fellow who had a reference to his palm that was pretty disgusting, another username referenced oozing lesions, and there were a lot of others, some of whom prolly still post, but I have forgotten them and are perfectly happy to have done so, and hopefully will not remember them in the future. ---
**Author:** ![Mince](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@Mince](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mince)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatards/556161/370 "2010-10-11T05:00:09Z")
“bucketybuck” is a form of avatar; unless your birth name _is_ bucketybuck, then my apologies. ---
**Author:** ![Trepa\_Mayfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@Trepa\_Mayfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trepa_Mayfield)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatards/556161/371 "2010-10-11T05:26:29Z")
> [@Mince](#): > > “bucketybuck” is a form of avatar; unless your birth name _is_ bucketybuck, then my apologies. That’s really quite irrelevant to the discussion. We were all using the same definition of avatar, let’s not confuse one of the few aspects of the discussion on which we were all on the same page. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatards/556161/372 "2010-10-11T05:31:02Z")
You know, I find it quite funny that people are arguing that avatars will lower the level of discourse here, (Because, you know, Funny Things Said During Sex and Pan-Fried Semen were soooo erudite) when the board has trashy google ads, popups and people have reported getting malware from the board. It is to laugh. ---
**Author:** ![Mince](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@Mince](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mince)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatards/556161/373 "2010-10-11T06:01:51Z")
> [@pedescribe](#): > > > [@Mince](#): > > > > “bucketybuck” is a form of avatar; unless your birth name _is_ bucketybuck, then my apologies. > > That’s really quite irrelevant to the discussion. We were all using the same definition of avatar, let’s not confuse one of the few aspects of the discussion on which we were all on the same page. Sure, I get it, but the OP’s premise is that he is opposed to avatars because they are “shallow, dumb, childish, insecure,…” “What is the attraction? You really want to have a silly little picture beside every post?” he asks. How different is that from a silly little moniker (bucketybuck, say) beside every post? Does the form alter the silliness? ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatards/556161/374 "2010-10-11T06:49:22Z")
Duh! Because it’s text and not a picture. Everyone knows only commoners like pictures. It’s because they lack the brain capacity for actual letters. ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatards/556161/375 "2010-10-11T07:42:57Z")
> [@inner stickler](#): > > duh! Because it’s text and not a picture. Everyone knows only commoners like pictures. It’s because they lack the brain capacity for actual letters. Agreed. In fact, I think even letters are pushing it. From now on I shall be known as 01000001010000110110110001101111011000110110101101110111011011110111001001101011010011010110010101101100011011110110111000101110. Actually, even that’s too boorish. From now on we won’t use usernames at all. We’ll all post anonymously because frankly, I don’t _want_ to be able to identify other posters. Everyone knows that the greatest, most intellectual boards use anonymous posting. ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 8:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatards/556161/376 "2010-10-11T08:35:59Z")
> [@AClockworkMelon](#): > > > [@inner stickler](#): > > > > duh! Because it’s text and not a picture. Everyone knows only commoners like pictures. It’s because they lack the brain capacity for actual letters. > > Agreed. In fact, I think even letters are pushing it. From now on I shall be known as 01000001010000110110110001101111011000110110101101110111011011110111001001101011010011010110010101101100011011110110111000101110. > > Actually, even that’s too boorish. From now on we won’t use usernames at all. We’ll all post anonymously because frankly, I don’t _want_ to be able to identify other posters. Everyone knows that the greatest, most intellectual boards use anonymous posting. Did you mean to bold it?: **01000001010000110110110001101111011000110110101101110111011011110111001001101011010011010110010101101100011011110110111000101110**? Or is that too flashy? 0100000101110100011101000110000101100011011010110010000001100110011100100110111101101101001000000111010001101000011001010010000000110011011100100110010000100000011001000110100101101101011001010110111001110011011010010110111101101110 ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 9:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatards/556161/377 "2010-10-11T09:35:20Z")
> [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](#): > > > [@AClockworkMelon](#): > > > > Agreed. In fact, I think even letters are pushing it. From now on I shall be known as 01000001010000110110110001101111011000110110101101110111011011110111001001101011010011010110010101101100011011110110111000101110. > > > > Actually, even that’s too boorish. From now on we won’t use usernames at all. We’ll all post anonymously because frankly, I don’t _want_ to be able to identify other posters. Everyone knows that the greatest, most intellectual boards use anonymous posting. > > Did you mean to bold it?: > **01000001010000110110110001101111011000110110101101110111011011110111001001101011010011010110010101101100011011110110111000101110**? You new kids are completely ruining our glorious board. I don’t think we should even have the ability to bold, italicize or underline. We should strive for uniformity in all things. ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Barchetta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/da6949/32.png) [@Red\_Barchetta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Barchetta)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatards/556161/378 "2010-10-11T10:01:50Z")
> [@AClockworkMelon](#): > > You new kids are completely ruining our glorious board. I don’t think we should even have the ability to bold, italicize or underline. We should strive for uniformity in all things. Agreed, including the content of our posts…starting now. You new kids are completely ruining our glorious board. I don’t think we should even have the ability to bold, italicize or underline. We should strive for uniformity in all things. ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 10:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatards/556161/379 "2010-10-11T10:16:01Z")
> [@AClockworkMelon](#): > > You new kids are completely ruining our glorious board. I don’t think we should even have the ability to bold, italicize or underline. We should strive for uniformity in all things. Agreed, including the content of our posts…starting now. You new kids are completely ruining our glorious board. I don’t think we should even have the ability to bold, italicize or underline. We should strive for uniformity in all things. ---
**Author:** ![MichaelEmouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/michaelemouse/32/101_2.png) [@MichaelEmouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MichaelEmouse)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatards/556161/380 "2010-10-11T10:19:54Z")
> [@](#): > > You new kids are completely ruining our glorious board. I don’t think we should even have the ability to bold, italicize or underline. We should strive for uniformity in all things. Agreed, including the content of our posts…starting now. You new kids are completely ruining our glorious board. I don’t think we should even have the ability to bold, italicize or underline. We should strive for uniformity in all things. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatards/556161.md?page=18) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatards/556161.md?page=20)