# I turned on avatars today. **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [August 8, 2018, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-turned-on-avatars-today/819255 "2018-08-08T00:29:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 13
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2018, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-turned-on-avatars-today/819255/241 "2018-08-09T23:08:41Z")
> [@TubaDiva](#): > > I have considered changing the size from 50 x 50 to 100 x 100 … how will this affect the look on mobile devices? I already read 50 x 50 is perfect for mobile users. Please advise, folks. Please don’t. I’m good with the avatars right now, because 50 pixels is almost exactly the same height as my name and member status. This is not one of those cases where bigger is better. ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2018, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-turned-on-avatars-today/819255/242 "2018-08-09T23:11:05Z")
Avatar enabled.😃 ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2018, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-turned-on-avatars-today/819255/243 "2018-08-09T23:17:24Z")
I’m not seeing any avatars, broken, or put-together. Not nuthin’. What am I doing wrong? Do I have to post one of my own before I can see other people’s? ---
**Author:** ![Emiliana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@Emiliana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emiliana)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2018, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-turned-on-avatars-today/819255/244 "2018-08-09T23:20:58Z")
The avatars look great. I switched back to the old skin to eliminate the spacing between avatars and names. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2018, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-turned-on-avatars-today/819255/245 "2018-08-09T23:24:31Z")
Nevermind. Figured it out. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2018, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-turned-on-avatars-today/819255/246 "2018-08-10T00:24:36Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > Turned out it’s very unobjectionable–attractive, even: > > [https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=21136741#post21136741](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=21136741#post21136741) I’m torn between relieved and disappointed. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2018, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-turned-on-avatars-today/819255/247 "2018-08-10T01:14:33Z")
I don’t mind the 50×50. In fact, I say keep it this way as a silent nod to our minimalist past. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2018, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-turned-on-avatars-today/819255/248 "2018-08-10T01:16:51Z")
Let’s see how this looks… EDIT: Cool! ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2018, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-turned-on-avatars-today/819255/249 "2018-08-10T01:18:16Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > I’m torn between relieved and disappointed. > 😃 Yes, there was a lot of scope, there. Unrealized as yet. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2018, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-turned-on-avatars-today/819255/250 "2018-08-10T01:22:23Z")
What avatars? I haven’t seen a single one so far. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2018, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-turned-on-avatars-today/819255/251 "2018-08-10T01:27:33Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > What avatars? I haven’t seen a single one so far. You have to turn them on – look at the USER CP instructions in the first post. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2018, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-turned-on-avatars-today/819255/252 "2018-08-10T01:29:33Z")
This is from another place where I was known as “60s Refugee”. Works good for Lumpy too. ---
**Author:** ![Windchaser](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/windchaser/32/294_2.png) [@Windchaser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Windchaser)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2018, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-turned-on-avatars-today/819255/253 "2018-08-10T01:48:01Z")
It played one animation cycle in my profile page, but do they animate on posts? Edit: Played one animation cycle and stopped, which is probably a reasonable compromise if that was the intended behavior. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2018, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-turned-on-avatars-today/819255/254 "2018-08-10T03:47:07Z")
Is there likely to be any issue about copyrighted material as an avatar? Would SDMB wait for a lawyer to contact, or try to be proactive about it? ---
**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:** [August 10, 2018, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-turned-on-avatars-today/819255/255 "2018-08-10T03:55:07Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > Is there likely to be any issue about copyrighted material as an avatar? Would SDMB wait for a lawyer to contact, or try to be proactive about it? Considering people use copyrighted images as avatars all over the internet, I think it’s safe to say it falls under “fair use”. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2018, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-turned-on-avatars-today/819255/256 "2018-08-10T03:55:13Z")
I’ve not used avatars before. Afraid I’m not so creative … testing to see if the bitmoji of myself even posts. And on preview apparently not. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2018, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-turned-on-avatars-today/819255/257 "2018-08-10T04:13:27Z")
I see it. ---
**Author:** ![Crazyhorse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crazyhorse/32/31_2.png) [@Crazyhorse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crazyhorse)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2018, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-turned-on-avatars-today/819255/258 "2018-08-10T04:15:33Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > Is there likely to be any issue about copyrighted material as an avatar? Would SDMB wait for a lawyer to contact, or try to be proactive about it? This question has come up since the [early days of avatars](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=674036) on the SDMB. (At that time accomplished by use of a 3rd party script.) With hundreds of millions of online avatars in use around the world, even now six years later I still can’t find one example of a lawsuit or even a cease and desist letter regarding a copyright claim about someone’s online avatar. As said in that old thread: > [@Just how wrong is it to use an image from Google Images for an avatar?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-how-wrong-is-it-to-use-an-image-from-google-images-for-an-avatar/642630/28): > > [This is a good read](http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/copyright-fair-use-and-how-it-works-for-online-images/) on the subject of fair use of online images in general. Obviously the question of message board avatars is so trivial neither the law nor most discussions about it deal with them specifically. It is comparable to a child wearing a Halloween mask they made by printing an image from the internet and cutting eye holes in it. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2018, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-turned-on-avatars-today/819255/259 "2018-08-10T04:22:08Z")
> [@Windchaser](#): > > It played one animation cycle in my profile page, but do they animate on posts? > > Edit: Played one animation cycle and stopped, which is probably a reasonable compromise if that was the intended behavior. No animated anything, please. I have the “allow animation” turned off, which is probably why it only blinked once. But please, it shouldn’t blink at all. Or do anything else but just be. Would very much appreciate you fixing this. Thanks. Jenny your humble TubaDiva Administrator ---
**Author:** ![Crazyhorse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crazyhorse/32/31_2.png) [@Crazyhorse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crazyhorse)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2018, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-turned-on-avatars-today/819255/260 "2018-08-10T04:36:59Z")
> [@TubaDiva](#): > > No animated anything, please. > > I have the “allow animation” turned off, which is probably why it only blinked once. To prevent animations you could just disable uploading GIF format avatars entirely. I’m sure that VB can do this but I don’t know what kind of work would be involved. It may be just a simple checkbox in the settings or could require having to edit code directly in the VB files. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-turned-on-avatars-today/819255.md?page=12) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-turned-on-avatars-today/819255.md?page=14)