Would it bother you if avatars were allowed, but off by default?

Maybe you could do the same. He was responding to Palooka:

Forget it, feena, it’s 'Casmtown. If he doesn’t like something, fuck all y’all who do.

Easy mistake to make given the hyperbole and the placement of the posts.

Seriously, I find the whole argument baffling.

Not really.

DAMN YOU 60 SECOND BUFFER

That was sort of my point, hence the quotes…

Maybe you wouldn’t have made such a mistake if we had avatars :stuck_out_tongue:

Why don’t you go ahead and provide a link to that picture you are all fired-up for us to tie to your good name? What is this image that will enhance how people view you eversomuchmoreso?

So, just out of curiosity, did you know Quasimodem and Quasimodal are different people?

You can go to the Giraffe boards to see just how much random, silly little pictures improve the message board experience.

Most certainly.
Because I can read.

Hey, now that’s not fair. Giraffe boards is terrible for a lot of reasons, not just because we have avatars.

I think people should be able to use avatars even though I would probably not put one up. I would probably have them on, though I might not.

I really don’t think the avatar people are the ones who are tying way too much of their personal worth in with the appearance of a messageboard.

Except it has nothing to do with being able to read. Thanks for implying those who do confuse the two are illiterate though.

(Were you this stuck-up and rude when you were a moderator too, or is that why you ceased to be?)

Beautiful. So how will two people having the same avatar keep you, with your ready-eyes all ready-capable, from telling them apart?

Did I say there’s a picture of me that will enhance people’s opinion of me? Perhaps for some it will. But enhancement is irrelevant. I want an avatar. You have no argument against me having an avatar other than you don’t like them. Why does your distaste trump my desire? Especially when my having one impacts no one but those who enjoy avatars.

That’s kind of rude, don’t you think? You seem to be confusing the forum you used to mod with the forum I used to mod.

This seems inordinately rude for a topic as trivial and insignificant as this one.

(Yes, yes, I know, it’s the Internet. But still.)

eta: Ninja’ed by Giraffe!

My distaste does not trump your desire, but also your desire does not invalidate my distaste. You and others wish to have a say on the matter-be ready to hear opposing opinions without mocking them or creating absurd strawmen out of them.

You, sir or ma’am, are correct, which is why it is a fantabulous idea that avatars be turned off by default so that those with a distaste for them don’t have to do anything. Even those of us who are completely indifferent don’t have to do anything. Only the “avatards” who prefer them would have to adjust their settings to allow for them, and everyone else can be happy without them. Yay!