Thread: Tell me, Do you take people without an avatar less seriously?

I never feel like a legitimate poster on a message board until I have an avatar. People without them just seem like a blip on the radar, or at least somebody who isn't going to spend much time or energy on the forum. I don't really take them "less seriously" though.

I like to slip underneath the radar.

You don't slip underneath much with your bolded, profound signature quote.

Ha! Yeah. I actually listened to that talk today where he drops that line

I don't take less seariosly...but avatar usually helps me remember user...

I just use them as a tool to remember people, it makes it easier. I still read all posts regardless of who wrote them, though.

I also have signatures turned off, because they're generally useless and just make the pages longer. That's also the main reason I don't have a signature, to less inconvenience people with them turned on.

The problems with avatars, though, is that when someone changes it you might not recognize the person anymore. Also, you may mistake someone's identety of they have the same avatar.

On the other hand do people with awesome animated avatars get taken more seriously? I think so.

Ha, this post's made me bother to get an avatar

I generally recognise people by their user-name though, I just don't notice the avatar unless I specifically want to see it.

Originally Posted by khh

The problems with avatars, though, is that when someone changes it you might not recognize the person anymore. Also, you may mistake someone's identety of they have the same avatar.

You don't know how hilarious that can be. On my off road forums, about 10 of us changed it so someone's av. Man, confusion all over for people who didn't know. Had to get used to reading the names. It was like that for a few days

Avs don't figure into it too much for me. Some people stick and some people don't, but if I start to get a feel for who you are (or your persona is) in my mind, it's based at least 90% on your posts. If a person has fewer than 20 posts and no av, I may pay less attention on the expectation that they won't stick around, but I'm not sure it's any different if a person has three posts and an uber av.

What I do take less seriously are avs and sigs expressing devotion to a movie, anime, or fashion model / sex symbol. With the exception of members who have proven otherwise with their posts, it just seems like the mark of a shallow person with no personality of their own.

I have avatars off, and I've never found an avatar I liked. I just turned avatars on to see if they told me something about you people I didn't already know, they didn't.

Originally Posted by khh

The problems with avatars, though, is that when someone changes it you might not recognize the person anymore. Also, you may mistake someone's identety of they have the same avatar.

This is why I don't change my avatar. Exactly.

I feel the same way as you all said, I don't remember a member if they are avatar-less. I usually don't even try to remember people without an avatar. I need an image to associate them with! I didn't get my avatar until like a few weeks into september (I was gone a while, came back on here about the beginning of september). I wasn't sure what I wanted, so I came up with this. I wanted it to kinda reflect my personality, I wanted to choose carefully, so I wadded through a bunch of pictures to find this one, I never felt like it before, and wasn't quite ready.

I'm glad that I have an avatar now, it seems rather me. So is my sig, it's so colorful. I love color, bright colors! I love to wear bright colors, it makes me stick out in the crowd. Also, I have an orange username (from completing the TOTM) so that also makes me stick out, not that many members have it, I think that that also helps make me memorable.

If you don't have an avatar it's kind of like you aren't even a person at all.

people without avatars are the home-less of the forum.

I remember EVERYONE by there avatar, Jefff, C911, and Ninja are examples of the people I notice the most (obviously.)

I always read the post and then look at the avatar to see who posted, not there name.

I do that on other forums, but on this forum they're far too unreliable for that. They keep changing.

Yeah i just hate it when people dont have an avavtar

Originally Posted by Felixplore

Yeah i just hate it when people dont have an avavtar

Oh the irony.

Also, yes.

Originally Posted by Lulian

Oh the irony.

Also, yes.

Haha yeah i had to do it. but for me it really doesnt matter about avavtars, I tend to remember people who have interesting stuff to say than just how they "look".