# Want to see avatars on the SDMB? Here's a script. **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [July 8, 2012, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-see-avatars-on-the-sdmb-heres-a-script/627636 "2012-07-08T21:44:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 185
**Author:** ![Cheshire\_Human](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Cheshire\_Human](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheshire_Human)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2012, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-see-avatars-on-the-sdmb-heres-a-script/627636/185 "2012-11-28T21:30:02Z")
… that I don’t want cluttering up the other ATMB thread. This seems the more appropriate thread. In that thread, **Crazyhorse** said: > [@Avatar not specified, but I get one in the grease monkey script](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatar-not-specified-but-i-get-one-in-the-grease-monkey-script/642155/108): > > … > I have an avatar assigned to one poster that is a picture of an angry guy from the internet, veins in the forehead bulging and steam coming out of his ears. I have another that is a big ‘thumbs down’ that displays by the posts of every banned user on the entire site. > … I’ve wanted to have some sort of ‘avatar-like’ symbol next to user names that will signal a poster’s category, as assigned by me, such as: ‘likely idiot’, ‘likely valuable contribution’, likely good story of dubious accuracy’, etc. Also, as you mentioned in that post, ‘this clown has been banned’. My question is, does your script (I don’t currently use it, and haven’t downloaded it, so can’t check myself without excessive time and effort) enable me to assign a pic stored on my local HD to someone? I don’t want to rely on any external service to host the pix, and I’ve got _plenty_ of free Gigs on my HD, and I can’t imagine that taking up even 1 GB, even if I have 1 image for each user who’s ever been active. All I want is a way to assign posters into categories that are instantly visually identifiable. And I don’t care if an ‘avatar’ shows up next to users I haven’t assigned the ‘avatard’ to, nor do I care if nothing shows up next to one of those unassigned posters. I might even give myself the ‘avatard’ as an avatar, just for shits and grins. Does your script allow assignment of locally stored pix? --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-see-avatars-on-the-sdmb-heres-a-script/627636)._