will the Dope accept avatars in the future?

So that’s a “maybe,” then.

The hamsters! Won’t anybody think of the hamsters!

I’d hate to see avatars on this board, but if they ever happened, I think all administrators and staff should have hamster avatars…animated…on little hamster wheels…turning verrrrry slooooowly.

:smiley:

You mean like this?

http://www.kossan.se/hamster_i_hjul.htm

(Thanks, Tofer.)

we could have had avatars that werent moving

or we could have avatars that was only accepted by the Straight Dope. Like a standard avatar selection of 15-20 symbols

What’s the point? Avatars are just a cheap-ass way of trying to be “cute.”
We don’t do “cute” here.

Except in the Location field and with the selection of Usernames. I’d rather not have avatars FWIW though.

The majority of people on this board are

  1. Very happy without avatars

  2. Don’t want avatars.

Deal with it. If you don’t like it, or you’ve having a bad time here, feel free to amuse yourself elsewhere. There are plenty of other boards where people have avatars already.

What’s with the snarky response? The OP and follow-up certainly don’t deserve it. It would be hard to make a feature request is a less pushy manner.

That’s not cute, that’s witty. We do witty.

So the “Bozeman” in your location field is intended to be some kind of esoteric joke? :wink:

“Bozeman” always cracks me up.

It has to do with Minotaurus’s posting history. I believe he would indeed be happier on another board, probably one with avatars and animated gifs in the signatures.

Have you ever been to Bozeman?

Although, seriously, they’ve got some pretty good food there, and the view can’t be beat.

I like the hamster video, TubaDiva, but they have to be going much slower. And they need somebody standing over them with a whip. Maybe a “bondage a go-go” whip :smiley:

Nah, my I just couldn’t think of anything suitably clever, so I just went with simple literal fact. Of course, since then, I’ve seen plenty that made me smack my head and say I should have thought of it first, like /dev/tty1, or 127.0.0.1.

We have a history of being tough on deities major and minor. The Invisable Pink Unicorn was banned as was Satan himself. God often gets a bit of a beating in GD, and even Amazon Floozie Goddess is starting to look worried :slight_smile:

You could always go with something like “The End of Time”.

Well we do have one avatar on the board

You are quite right. I allowed my personal contempt and disgust for Minotaurus to enter a thread where it was inappropriate. My sincere apologies to everyone other than him. I will try to do better in the future.

Broomstick, you know better than this.

In ATMB if you have a personal problem with someone you take it elsewhere. This includes the people you don’t like.

Please don’t do this again.