No kidding?! I see the words “Sherrerd’s Avatar” to the right of a small icon that looks like a picture with the top right corner turned down, and some sort of break or cut running diagonally near the right bottom. I assume it’s a pre-coded placeholder—I thought maybe VBulletin provided it for forums that wanted to have moderators approve avatars manually before they could appear.
It would probably be best if we could get everyone to do the 50x50px avatar picture AND the 125x125 profile picture of the same image. (Like I did, accidentally) That way, if you want to see to see someone’s avatar with a bit more detail, you just click on it. (Again, like mine, for example.)
I see the placeholder. I use the classic Straight Dope theme. FWIW, I don’t see Colibri’s avatar, either. I just see a placeholder where his should be, too.
There’s a comma in the filename of your avatar image. (“DuerPressLogo, twisted JPG 50 px sq C.jpg”)
That confuses Chrome but not other browsers. If you change the name to something without a comma and set it as your avatar it should show up for Chrome users too.
Thanks for the response! I’ve just started blocking them on the machines that I view the board on (three so far!), so I’m back to normal. I’m sure you’ll get to it, but it really does look terrible on the new skin, which is also the default – user names are tabbed about an inch away from the avatar.
One other suggestion – some people will probably never get an avatar. Would it make sense to have one of those default generic heads, like the various social networks use, when there’s no avatar specified? Otherwise, the user names move back and forth depending on whether there’s an avatar. The page might flow better if there were always a place for the avatar.
Thanks again for getting back to me. I doubt I could leave this site for long.
I don’t mind them at 50x50. It keeps the avatars from dominating the page while still allowing us a bit of individual flair. I’m not sure the Dope is ready for 100x100 avatars.
Besides, it takes some effort to come up with a design that works at this size–one has to think a bit.
Sherrerd’s avatar appears fine for me on my mobile Firefox, but displays as a broken image in Chrome. I think there’s something wrong with the image, and Firefox is compensating, but Chrome isn’t. So I downloaded the image and tried to fix it, and PM’d Sherrerd a link to the fixed image. I tested that image, and it seems to work fine.
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