# No Avatars Here? Why?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-avatars-here-why/625626>\
**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:** 356

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2012, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-avatars-here-why/625626/356 "2012-06-21T19:58:50Z")

</div>

> [@Richard\_Pearse](#):
>
> To be honest, what really annoys me, and goaded me into getting into this thread in the first place are the asinine fools who whine about the clutter and make some remark about how they’re not keen on the idea of avatars and how they hope there’d be an option to turn them off, when it has been explained over and over again that the experience for someone who does not care for avatars would be identical to what it is now and that they wouldn’t even have to tick a box, it would be the default. Are these posters illiterate or being intentionally obtuse? I’m bewildered by how common this position is.

My personal position is that:

1. It would be more work for the moderators, and
2. It’s the house rules that I agreed to, and I don’t find this rule to be anywhere near unbearable or oppressive.

---

_[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-avatars-here-why/625626)._