Please do post your requests for avatars here. There are already a number already up - but I'll be happy to try and track down particular themes. Just let me know. 
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mac1
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In the signature section of the edit profile screen, would it be possible to increase the maximum number of characters from 22 so I could include my cool little Tool quote signature from the chronicles forum? Thanks in advance.
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I'm actually planning on keeping the signature length down at the moment - when I surf boards that do have large signatures allowed, often a lot of people will simply fill it with graphics - big hideous tastless things.
On the Chronicles site it's not an issue, because it's a small and familiar community. Here, though, I'm preparing for a general influx and I want to play the case by ear.
The real point is that if I allow signature graphics, then disallow them, I will pee off members. If I disallow signature graphics, but then allow them later on (as the case may be), then I won't pee folks off.
Playing by ear...the test will be when Google finally has this site indexed. I'm not too sure what to expect, but the targeted way this site has been set up means that I am expecting significant hits. How that relates to the development of this forum is yet to be seen.
On the Chronicles site it's not an issue, because it's a small and familiar community. Here, though, I'm preparing for a general influx and I want to play the case by ear.
The real point is that if I allow signature graphics, then disallow them, I will pee off members. If I disallow signature graphics, but then allow them later on (as the case may be), then I won't pee folks off.
Playing by ear...the test will be when Google finally has this site indexed. I'm not too sure what to expect, but the targeted way this site has been set up means that I am expecting significant hits. How that relates to the development of this forum is yet to be seen.
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me want norse gods!
Hail!
Thor the Mighty
Hail!
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mac1
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Fair point, I can see that the signature could most definately be abused. Hope you don't think my Tool quote on the chronicles site is "big hideous tastless thing", I'd be happy (somewhat begrudgingly [lol]) to change it if so.
Ah, no - and you made the colours fit for Chronicles, which I like.
I've seen stuff around on other boards, and it's made me a little cautious. And making sure I don't take anything from member identity's is precisely why I'm leaving the issue open here for the moment. Maybe later, but watching and waiting to see what happens first.
Maybe it'll go to a vote.
I've seen stuff around on other boards, and it's made me a little cautious. And making sure I don't take anything from member identity's is precisely why I'm leaving the issue open here for the moment. Maybe later, but watching and waiting to see what happens first.
Maybe it'll go to a vote.
mac1
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Whats your opinion on my new one?
Think it looks great - very fitting for this site - though like your other one for the Chronicles site.
Anything but the 8-bit people again!
Anything but the 8-bit people again!
mac1
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LOL - I didn't like the 8-Bit people either. It just amused me for a while - so incredibly 80's. ;D :laugh:
Polycarp
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Brian -- any chance you'd be willing to take http://www.cybercom.net/~htm/images/a-138.jpg and resize it for me? It would be absolutely terrific to have my namesake/patron as my own personal icon!
No problem, Polycarp!
I've actually fixed the upload function now as well - but I've taken the liberty of uploading your desired avatar to a private directory and updated your link to it. Hope you don't mind that.
By the way - I only did a simple resize - graphics are not a strong point. If there are any problems with the resizing I'll take a look at the issue again.
Anyway, hope that all helps.
Brian
I've actually fixed the upload function now as well - but I've taken the liberty of uploading your desired avatar to a private directory and updated your link to it. Hope you don't mind that.
By the way - I only did a simple resize - graphics are not a strong point. If there are any problems with the resizing I'll take a look at the issue again.
Anyway, hope that all helps.
Brian
juantoo3
....whys guy.... ʎʇıɹoɥʇnɐ uoıʇsǝnb
Thank you Brian.
You have a wonderful selection of avatars to choose from. Unfortunately, none of them speak to my spirit. I would really appreciate a Native American Coyote, my adopted totem. Thanks, in advance, for any assistance.
Hi juantoo3 - and welcome to CR.
Do you see any particular image on the internet that conveys what you're after? If so, if you could send me a link I'll be happy to reformat it and add it to your profile.
Do you see any particular image on the internet that conveys what you're after? If so, if you could send me a link I'll be happy to reformat it and add it to your profile.
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Jesus shot dead.
I am an ignoramus when it comes to computerese or Internet forumese. I don’t know about ‘avatars’; so I look it up and learn that in Hinduism/Buddhism an avatar is an incarnation of a Hindu deity. And in Internet forums it is fashionable now to adopt an avatar for one’s pictorial icon, something like that.
In the Catholic Church we have patron saints after whom Catholics are fond of naming their children. In some Catholic countries they even use the names of Jesus and the persons of the Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit for their own proper names.
Thus there was a notorious criminal long in the most wanted list in a certain very Catholic country, named Jesus del Espiritu Santo. He got shot dead one day fleeing and shooting it out with pursuing police. The headline in the papers the following day: “Jesus shot dead resisting arrest”.
The practice of mankind seems to turn out again and again similar from one age to another, from one domain of endeavors to another.
Moral of the story: Guys adopting avatars, better lead lives doing credit to your avatars.
Susma Rio Sep
I am an ignoramus when it comes to computerese or Internet forumese. I don’t know about ‘avatars’; so I look it up and learn that in Hinduism/Buddhism an avatar is an incarnation of a Hindu deity. And in Internet forums it is fashionable now to adopt an avatar for one’s pictorial icon, something like that.
In the Catholic Church we have patron saints after whom Catholics are fond of naming their children. In some Catholic countries they even use the names of Jesus and the persons of the Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit for their own proper names.
Thus there was a notorious criminal long in the most wanted list in a certain very Catholic country, named Jesus del Espiritu Santo. He got shot dead one day fleeing and shooting it out with pursuing police. The headline in the papers the following day: “Jesus shot dead resisting arrest”.
The practice of mankind seems to turn out again and again similar from one age to another, from one domain of endeavors to another.
Moral of the story: Guys adopting avatars, better lead lives doing credit to your avatars.
Susma Rio Sep
juantoo3
....whys guy.... ʎʇıɹoɥʇnɐ uoıʇsǝnb
I said:Hi juantoo3 - and welcome to CR.
Do you see any particular image on the internet that conveys what you're after? If so, if you could send me a link I'll be happy to reformat it and add it to your profile.
Hello, and thank you for asking. No, I haven't yet found any that were not copyrighted, and I have concerns about using such work, I don't know that it would be ethical or legal to use copyrighted work for something as simple as an icon. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
juantoo3
....whys guy.... ʎʇıɹoɥʇnɐ uoıʇsǝnb
Susma,
I too, am ignorant of "computerese", it's all geek to me. But I do use "context" to assist me in figuring out what somebody means by a term. "Avatar" also seems to have a connotation in wicca, but since that was not the context in which it was being used, that is not the context in which I accepted it. (I have more to say to the issue of context, but I will post it on another thread, since this one seems to me dedicated to issues concerning the formatting of responder's unique identities.)
Which explains, at least in part, what you say here. As concepts from one venue of thought/philosophy/religion transfer to another, it seems natural to use terms that relate, even if the concept does not wholly transfer.
It seems to me a curious observation from a Catholic, the use of pictorial icons. The difference being that these "avatars" are not symbols directly worshipped here, merely representative identification. My desire to use a Native American symbol stems from my heritage, and my purpose is much like that of a "nickname". Since Coyote has been my nickname for years, I live daily giving credence to my nickname. Coyote is me, therefore all I do gives credit to Coyote. I can just as easily post here without an avatar, it really makes no difference to me. Even without a pictorial icon, all I do gives credence to Coyote. Note here, credence is not worship. I do not worship Coyote, I relate to Coyote.
Is this humorous, or ironic? Or perhaps, humorously ironic? And then there is the issue of being culturally acceptable not only to relate to, but also to actually name a person after, a religious figure, yet take issue with a pictorial representation as an anonymous representation of a forum participant? Am I missing something?
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No issue here
Is this humorous, or ironic? Or perhaps, humorously ironic? And then there is the issue of being culturally acceptable not only to relate to, but also to actually name a person after, a religious figure, yet take issue with a pictorial representation as an anonymous representation of a forum participant? Am I missing something?
No issue here, Juan. Just being humorously cynical. So, please if you are not so happy with my thoughts and a bit perplexed, just be like Vaj who is the essential Buddhist in his great calm.
No offense to anyone with my posts. I am a postgraduate Catholic with the emphasis on 'post'.
The only thing I am very much against is war and violence and discrimination, stuffs like that. When it comes to ideas I am curious and like to delve into them for humorous implications.
About worship, Catholics keep telling people that they don't worship no one except God; but for the rest like Mary and the saints, what they do is venerate. Now, it's all in the mind, the distinction; but in the heart to me it's all the same: latria, dulia, hyperdulia, and what have you.
Susma Rio Sep
Is this humorous, or ironic? Or perhaps, humorously ironic? And then there is the issue of being culturally acceptable not only to relate to, but also to actually name a person after, a religious figure, yet take issue with a pictorial representation as an anonymous representation of a forum participant? Am I missing something?
No issue here, Juan. Just being humorously cynical. So, please if you are not so happy with my thoughts and a bit perplexed, just be like Vaj who is the essential Buddhist in his great calm.
No offense to anyone with my posts. I am a postgraduate Catholic with the emphasis on 'post'.
The only thing I am very much against is war and violence and discrimination, stuffs like that. When it comes to ideas I am curious and like to delve into them for humorous implications.
About worship, Catholics keep telling people that they don't worship no one except God; but for the rest like Mary and the saints, what they do is venerate. Now, it's all in the mind, the distinction; but in the heart to me it's all the same: latria, dulia, hyperdulia, and what have you.
Susma Rio Sep