# No Avatars Here? Why? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [June 19, 2012, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-avatars-here-why/625626 "2012-06-19T09:55:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 28
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2012, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-avatars-here-why/625626/541 "2012-07-08T21:49:01Z")
[Link to new thread.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=657890) I thought since this wasn’t about a board feature it should go in MPSIMP. ---
**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:** [July 8, 2012, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-avatars-here-why/625626/542 "2012-07-08T21:58:05Z")
Perfect thank you. I added a little info to that thread. ---
**Author:** ![Full\_Tilt\_Boogie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/2acd7d/32.png) [@Full\_Tilt\_Boogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Full_Tilt_Boogie)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2012, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-avatars-here-why/625626/543 "2012-07-27T17:28:25Z")
> [@DrFidelius](#): > > Because we are a group of conservative old farts who miss the wild and woolly days of USENet. > > We know people by their ideas and spelling skills, and not on what picture they can find to put up next to their names. That’s if they can be bothered to stay here because in asking for small ‘nice-to-have’ features, they run the risk of interrupting the sleep of the ruling clique? So the regime here’s not yet caught on to the fact that people remember/respond to visual stimulus more readily that written? And then having the temerity to ask them to pay for same? Impressive. Although not a way to grow the board’s membership. Quite the opposite. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2012, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-avatars-here-why/625626/544 "2012-07-27T17:35:45Z")
How’s your board doing? ---
**Author:** ![Full\_Tilt\_Boogie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/2acd7d/32.png) [@Full\_Tilt\_Boogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Full_Tilt_Boogie)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2012, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-avatars-here-why/625626/545 "2012-07-27T17:46:12Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > How’s your board doing? So I guess answering the question was/is too hard? OK. Ignoring your juvenile crassness, mine’s a free board merely for a handful of friends who are geographically dispersed gloablly (we don’t prevent others joining - however neither we don’t actively seek out new members). And besides, we now FB which is has made it easier to get together. Oh, and both allow free avatars. Let me know when you have a point. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2012, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-avatars-here-why/625626/546 "2012-07-27T17:52:59Z")
> [@Full\_Tilt\_Boogie](#): > > So I guess answering the question was/is too hard? The questions weren’t really addressed to me personally, and were more a series of snide comments with question marks at the end than actual questions. So I just added my own. ---
**Author:** ![Full\_Tilt\_Boogie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/2acd7d/32.png) [@Full\_Tilt\_Boogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Full_Tilt_Boogie)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2012, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-avatars-here-why/625626/547 "2012-07-27T17:54:45Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > The questions weren’t really addressed to me personally, and were more a series of snide comments with question marks at the end than actual questions. So I just added my own. And yet you reacted as if personally slighted. Stultifying. Like I said, so let me know when you have a point. ---
**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:** [July 27, 2012, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-avatars-here-why/625626/548 "2012-07-27T17:58:41Z")
> [@Full\_Tilt\_Boogie](#): > > So I guess answering the question was/is too hard? OK. Your question has been answered in this thread if you had read it. Your question about this issue, which you asked, in another thread was also answered before you came to this thread to reask the question. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2012, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-avatars-here-why/625626/549 "2012-07-27T19:08:36Z")
> [@Full\_Tilt\_Boogie](#): > > Ignoring your juvenile crassness . . . > > Let me know when you have a point. **Moderator Note** **Full Tilt Boogie** , ATMB is for discussing board policy, not for engaging in bickering with other posters. Dial back on the snark. No warning issued. This goes for everyone. Colibri Moderator ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2012, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-avatars-here-why/625626/550 "2012-07-28T01:11:43Z")
> [@Full\_Tilt\_Boogie](#): > > So the regime here’s not yet caught on to the fact that people remember/respond to visual stimulus more readily that written? And then having the temerity to ask them to pay for same? These are the same people who think that not allowing your location/post count to be visible (only paying members’ info is visible) will be incentive for the non-payers to pay up. When the ability to see everyone’s location/post count is the real incentive. I don’t care whether my own location is visible to others, I do care where others may be posting from (it can provide valuable context). Their thinking isn’t always clear when it comes to this stuff. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-avatars-here-why/625626.md?page=27)