# When are you going to allow us to put avatars and banners?

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**Created:** [December 9, 2003, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-are-you-going-to-allow-us-to-put-avatars-and-banners/217871 "2003-12-09T06:49:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2004, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-are-you-going-to-allow-us-to-put-avatars-and-banners/217871/37 "2004-01-18T07:27:04Z")

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On my bulletin board, I allow avatars (80 x 80 pixels, under 3K, non-animated), and attachments of small, unamimated images. There’s a reason why, though; it’s an urban planning-related site, and sometimes we need to show examples of good or bad development somewhere, or an image of a project a user is working on.

Then again, I’ve only got about 700 members and 100,000 posts. If Cyburbia ever approached SDMB-type user levels and traffic, the avatars would go bye-bye, and image attachments would hit the dust; it’s the IMG tag or nothing.

On the SDMB, it’s substance over style. I like it that way. Please, no k-rad KeWl anime avatars with gamerZZZ-style dark green text on a black background that PWnssS!!!1!!! 420 2600 69 420 2600 69 420 2600 69!!! … uhh … sorry. Got carried away.

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