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The Site => Site Suggestions & Support => Topic started by: NightHawk on December 13, 2006, 10:34:44 AM
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Will there come a time where we will be able to upload our own personal avatars? Family friendly ones that is.
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I can use whatever avatar I want, as long as I host it somewhere else. (ie: Photobucket). Currently my icon is not available to select for the board, but I'm using it. I don't know if you have to be at a certain post count before you're able to use your own icon. But it'll give you the option below the main selection area. It'll have the http:// and you just add the rest of the URL.
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I thought that some weird board defect dictated that you had to have 100+ posts to use your own avatar, but Kiriath just posted with her own image, and she only has 39 posts. Maybe the defect was fixed when Fred switched board styles? Try uploading an icon to Photobucket, as Shiggy recommended.
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It's not a "defect," as much as an SMF setting. I'm guessing Fred got in and changed the settings with the board overhaul.
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Yeah Im preety sure it was a setting too
I remember writing to him about it asking why, I think someone got back to me about it and said it was a setting
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It is easy to set up personal avatars, as far as I can tell.
However, I am above that 100 post count.
Hmm.
-LN
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Am I the only one who actually misses having only those avatars they had put there for us to use? No offense Lord Nedd, but your oh-so-tall picture is weirding me out....
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Well, I do believe Iago asked him to resize it to normal size in another thread, but I don't think he's made it back to that thread yet.
I think all icons should be Jim related and 100x100 or under.
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Well, I do believe Iago asked him to resize it to normal size in another thread, but I don't think he's made it back to that thread yet.
I think all icons should be Jim related and 100x100 or under.
Is there a proper ettiquette for creating avatars thread or sticky that I missed?
Inicidentally, Iago did ask me to resize it, which I have done. However, I am not sure that he was concerned about the old or new versions. The 2nd iteration was about 175 x 100. The first iteration was about 125% larger.
-LN
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Um sorry about my avatar size too, its a bit too large - ill try to to resize it when i can find time to photoshop it into the right size
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Um sorry about my avatar size too, its a bit too large - ill try to to resize it when i can find time to photoshop it into the right size
Here ya go:
(http://www.theninemuses.net/junk/ghoulfish.jpg)
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Hug -
Thanks for doing that for me
I owe you -
not sure what yet but
I owe you
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Hug -
Thanks for doing that for me
I owe you -
not sure what yet but
I owe you
*laughs* You're welcome, but I already had Photoshop open. It took three seconds. :D
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Sorry L.N. I know I originally asked because it was overly large in general, and then Iago mentioned the height and also mentioned it should be normal sized.
I don't want to get anyone mad at me. But maybe we should ask him to streamline the size requirements. I know other boards put it in the board admin's controls to make it so someone can't load an icon over a certain size.
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Sorry L.N. I know I originally asked because it was overly large in general, and then Iago mentioned the height and also mentioned it should be normal sized.
I don't want to get anyone mad at me. But maybe we should ask him to streamline the size requirements. I know other boards put it in the board admin's controls to make it so someone can't load an icon over a certain size.
Hehe.
I can say for certain that I wasn't angry. More confused, because I hadn't seen anything from Iago. By the third iteration, he said everything looked a.o.k.
-LN
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I just didn't want to sound like I'm ordering anyone around. It's not my place. So I'm sorry if it came across that way. A screen with type doesn't really tell you tone of voice.
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Just changed mine ;D
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Kiriath just posted with her own image, and she only has 39 posts.
No she didn't. Her avatar's in the Actors folder somewhere close to the top, called David Boreanaz. At least, it was there the last time I checked it.
Oh and yay, I got a personal avatar too :).
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Kiriath just posted with her own image, and she only has 39 posts.
No she didn't. Her avatar's in the Actors folder somewhere close to the top, called David Boreanaz. At least, it was there the last time I checked it.
Oh and yay, I got a personal avatar too :).
Aaaaaah, I stand corrected! Thanks for pointing that out, as I was scratching my head over it. I had forgotten that there were any non-Butcher-related icons available on the boards.
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I've been resistant to going back to the only-forum-supplied-avatars thing for a few reasons:
1) I'm very slow about updating the avatar supply.
2) It seemed like a nice perk to give our regular forum folks (post often enough, get yourself a visual signature)
3) I hate taking away privileges that I've given -- and, while this one was something I sorta "accidentally" left enabled, I'm a firm believer that I should eat my own mistakes. :)
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I've been resistant to going back to the only-forum-supplied-avatars thing for a few reasons:
1) I'm very slow about updating the avatar supply.
2) It seemed like a nice perk to give our regular forum folks (post often enough, get yourself a visual signature)
3) I hate taking away privileges that I've given -- and, while this one was something I sorta "accidentally" left enabled, I'm a firm believer that I should eat my own mistakes. :)
The reason I like individual avatars is I can recognise people quicker than if I had to read thier names. Yep it's just me being lazy.
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Sorry L.N. I know I originally asked because it was overly large in general, and then Iago mentioned the height and also mentioned it should be normal sized.
I don't want to get anyone mad at me. But maybe we should ask him to streamline the size requirements. I know other boards put it in the board admin's controls to make it so someone can't load an icon over a certain size.
I for one was kinda hoping that oversize icons would auto-squish to the proper size. I've seen that on other boards. Sigh, took me several tries to get this one mushed down to 100x100, but it does look better than the previous one. :)
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The reason I like individual avatars is I can recognise people quicker than if I had to read thier names. Yep it's just me being lazy.
I'm in this camp, too - it gets confusing when three or four posters with the same icon are in a thread - you start having to go back and see who's who.
Of course, now that I've topped 100, I can always spot my own posts, so I'm happy.
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Reading tag-lines helps, too. I had figured that I was safe with my choice of avatar only to discover that someone else was already using it.
I'll have my own, and very easily identifiable, avatar soon enough that I won't be causing any more confusion with 'howls.
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Has anybody had any problems lately with their personal avatars disappearing? Mine is within the 100x100 restriction, but randomly now, my avatar keeps disappearing and I have to reload it. Is there a reason for this?
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Are you hosting it off site?
If you're hosting it off site, it might have something to do with your hosting co. If it's here (I don't even remember if you can upload your own with the settings on this board), then they might be having some space issues.