# What's your opinion on the new Avatars on this board? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 9, 2018, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-opinion-on-the-new-avatars-on-this-board/819365 "2018-08-09T21:54:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiendish_astronaut/32/3295_2.png) [@Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiendish_Astronaut)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2018, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-opinion-on-the-new-avatars-on-this-board/819365/201 "2018-08-14T20:08:07Z")
I like them, they really help to follow a thread as I tend to have this thing in that I skip over names. Even when reading a novel I don’t read the names properly and when characters return after a paragraph or two I have search backwards to find out who they are and what place in the story they have. Kindles are a miracle to me as I can use the search function. Not sure if there’s a word for this or not! (Laziness?..) Anyway, the avatars have made this forum so much easier to follow now. I can use the avatars to follow conversations much more easily so I’m really grateful for them. What would be really amazing, would be if those who don’t like them could upload an avatar before they switch them off. But totally understand that people won’t necessarily want to do this. So just accept that all people who use avatars are going to be read by me as being generally of one mass with the same personality! ---
**Author:** ![Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiendish_astronaut/32/3295_2.png) [@Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiendish_Astronaut)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2018, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-opinion-on-the-new-avatars-on-this-board/819365/202 "2018-08-14T20:09:14Z")
\*people who don’t use. Damn inability to edit! ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2018, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-opinion-on-the-new-avatars-on-this-board/819365/203 "2018-08-15T01:10:08Z")
I’m searching the User C.P. to find out how to block them all. I’m a '99er. I know what this board needs to look like to me. How do I turn them off? ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2018, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-opinion-on-the-new-avatars-on-this-board/819365/204 "2018-08-15T01:41:28Z")
> [@Cartooniverse](#): > > I’m searching the User C.P. to find out how to block them all. > > I’m a '99er. I know what this board needs to look like to me. > > How do I turn them off? In user CP, look at User Options, scroll down to Show Avatars. **Uncheck** ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2018, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-opinion-on-the-new-avatars-on-this-board/819365/205 "2018-08-15T05:00:02Z")
> [@Misnomer](#): > > Huh? 😕 If you can set it so that the board looks the same as always to you, why do you care what others do/see? Are you worried that they’re, like, gateway avatars? Because it’s not right, dadblastit! :mad: ---
**Author:** ![steatopygia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steatopygia/32/3132_2.png) [@steatopygia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steatopygia)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2018, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-opinion-on-the-new-avatars-on-this-board/819365/206 "2018-08-15T05:21:08Z")
C’mon **Siam Sam**. Just a little one, it won’t hurt. How about a palm tree, that would look nice wouldn’t it? First one is free… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2018, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-opinion-on-the-new-avatars-on-this-board/819365/207 "2018-08-15T13:28:23Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Because it’s not right, dadblastit! :mad: LOL! Fair enough. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2018, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-opinion-on-the-new-avatars-on-this-board/819365/208 "2018-08-15T14:41:47Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > In user CP, look at User Options, scroll down to Show Avatars. **Uncheck** Thanks !!! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ThisSpaceForRent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thisspaceforrent/32/345_2.png) [@ThisSpaceForRent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisSpaceForRent)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2018, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-opinion-on-the-new-avatars-on-this-board/819365/209 "2018-08-15T18:25:34Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > … Very few folk have reasonably relevant actual, you know, “avatars”. Etc. ?? ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2018, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-opinion-on-the-new-avatars-on-this-board/819365/210 "2018-08-15T19:10:19Z")
I never really wanted them, but as long as they’re small, tasteful, and non-animated they are fine. ---
**Author:** ![Sarahfeena](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarahfeena/32/519_2.png) [@Sarahfeena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarahfeena)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2018, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-opinion-on-the-new-avatars-on-this-board/819365/211 "2018-08-19T21:23:34Z")
I’ve always been pro-avatar, so I think it’s pretty cool. They’re a bit too small. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2018, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-opinion-on-the-new-avatars-on-this-board/819365/212 "2018-08-19T22:00:18Z")
> [@Fiendish\_Astronaut](#): > > Anyway, the avatars have made this forum so much easier to follow now. I can use the avatars to follow conversations much more easily so I’m really grateful for them. > > What would be really amazing, would be if those who don’t like them could upload an avatar before they switch them off. I decided to go ahead and downsize my Wordpress/Gravatar image (original was 136x136) and it is still comprehensible, so I’m using that. (It is a \*Flexicalymene meeki \*trilobite from my collection.) Still leaving viewing them switched off, though. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2018, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-opinion-on-the-new-avatars-on-this-board/819365/213 "2018-08-19T22:04:20Z")
^ I’m still logy from dinner–I thought that was a picture of a _Troglodyte_! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2018, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-opinion-on-the-new-avatars-on-this-board/819365/214 "2018-09-10T16:24:59Z")
They are useful for rapidly skimming down a page looking for a particular poster so I’m going to go all in and add one of my own. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-opinion-on-the-new-avatars-on-this-board/819365.md?page=10)