Sure, that was just my response to a newbie who, on his first day, whines about no avatars because they’d be like kewl and can’t put together a sentence without an error. It was a “consider the source” reply.
Other posters, like you, I pay attention to. I may not agree with you, but I pay attention to you.
No avatars please.
With one or two hundred images available, how many posters would have the exact same image as I, assuming that the images were distributed evenly throughout the board?
You have to turn avatars on in your CP in order to use them. If you find they look far too twee, you can just turn them off and the people who want them and like them are happy and the people who don’t care for them are happy.
Except that many of the places that have them, people are changing their avatar on a weekly, or even daily basis, rendering them useless for that purpose.
Actually I just meant within a thread.
Damn, that’s ugly.
I vote we add a section to the FAQ detailing the fact that we’ve discussed this ad nauseam and initiate a policy that any discussion of avatars is immediately locked and the OP directed to read the FAQ.
I confident this suggestion will be met with complete aproval.
I do not care for them and would likely wander off should they arrive. I think, a lot of people, who don’t really want to argue over it, feel the same way. Just my opinion.
Here is an example of a forum with avatars, and also, a well built community.
From the bottom of their page:
Yeah-I could see why they might need avatars to tell each other apart.
You wouldn’t know because they’re off by default and you’d have to physically change your personal board settings in order to see them.
Yes, we obviously need to do that.
We’ll get to work on it.
Thanks.
Blasphemer.
it is really very simple
We don’t like change.
EVER!
A very good forum with a well built community like this one, but it has avatars along with legitimate comments.
I think we’ve all seen boards with Avatars. It’s not like we are talking cutting edge new technology here. What you have to ask yourself is…why do we need them? What do they add to the board that we are missing?
-XT
Forget avatars, someone needs to start a web forum to discuss space battles. Such a site is long overdue.
No? We let you join, didn’t we? There went the neighborhood. 
Ugly times 2.
Still ugly. It won’t get any prettier if you post the same link again.