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Avatar Appreciation Thread
StoreTags: avatar, individualism, identity
Author: room on June 15 2006 Viewed 3771 times. 50 people liked this blog. You can rate it below if you haven't already.
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Are avatars no longer in use?
If not I vote for their reinstatement....
Visual identity is important in a comunity of text.
For those of us who strongly latch onto images - they provide a quick reference signiture for the author of each text and help us to get to know each other more quickly.
Vote for this blog - to vote for avatars back.... 
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kidko
subtitles are cool for sure. I used the old style em411 while we had the choice, but I knew it was going to go away eventually. I will miss them, but it won't matter much in the long run.
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mlbot
There is so much text now.... for every senstence about music there is also a line with your name, and another line with recent blogs, which seems to me to be a 1:2 useful/unuseful text ratio, and that doesn't count google ads.
I found i recognized the avatars faster and could get to the info more quickly... but maybe thats just me.
I'd be happy with avatars even if I couldn't make a new one every day.
I dont like subtitles or signatures or tagged images that say THX4TEHADD,BRO all over the place. We (myself especially) already have issues with keeping signal/noise high.
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p
I liked having the avatars..like many have been saying it was easier to spot who was talking quicker. No wait...I take that back, you'd have to look carefully anyway because of the parody ones and the avatar wars...yeah the names alot less confusing.
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jdg
i like it now as is.. images in the blogs.
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prugelknaben
i love avatars
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mlbot
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Taavi
I liked mine too... now I miss it... and I'd like to mess around with it...
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jdg
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flies
but the avatar wars were so funny!
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mlbot
they weren't funny to the causalties!!
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Beep
neeed avatar
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Matti
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quicks
I *really* miss the avatars. It made it much easier to understand the threads, and the flow of conversation in them. Avatars are basically our "faces" on here, and they serve a very important function-- allowing us to visually recognize and differentiate one person from another. No avatars online is like everyone looking like agent smith in real life.
I understand it's a personal preference, so em's decision to have it optional in the last version of the site was ideal. This is a feature I'm more than willing to pay for- that's how important I think it is.
I still don't think bandwidth was the issue though. The avatars are hidden from guests and "clean look" users, and are cached very quickly on "old look" users' computers. With a file size of 10k, how many avatar downloads does it take to equal 1 mp3 download?
Limiting how often you could change your avatar is a very good idea- both from a bandwidth standpoint, and from a recognition standpoint.
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