# 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:** 1\ **Showing post:** 198
**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:** [June 20, 2012, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-avatars-here-why/625626/198 "2012-06-20T03:02:45Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Ah, thank you. But, I don’t think that negates any of the arguments here, at least on the pro-avatar side. I agree. I just find it hard to understand why so many people want avatars but so few will accept a simple workaround at least for the time being that allows us to have them right away, without pleading any case to TPTB. In the mean time by all means keep fighting the good fight against the irrational and unfair avatar phobia that makes such a workaround necessary but why not have avatars in the mean time, anyway? Until the day finally arrives, we can always fall back on Plan B: > [@Avatars](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatars/590594/325): > > We could always create [ASCII](http://www.glassgiant.com/ascii/ascii.php?sample=mona)avatars. They are plain text so it would ensure that the intelligent discourse normally found around here wouldn’t be disrupted. That should appease the text-based purists and the 300 baud modem crowd. You have to walk before you can run. > > My text rendition of a crazy horse. > > …(}=79-8… > …?..p) 8… > …8:… …8… > …Z …8.. > …=O …6.67.8.. > …,.=,.=..?8,…6… > …,.=…6 … > …=…7… > …,.=8…?.:… > …-.8…O…=+…D… > ..\<8,…8 …=-=-…7,..8… > …8… .:…8..=i… > …7,..I=…o=…7.. > …8#…i=…{8o=…8.. > …U…i=… > …%I…8D… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-avatars-here-why/625626)._