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What purpose does an avatar serve?

That's like asking what purpose does our name serve!

It helps ID you, for us.

It is in addition to your name; not 100% neccessary, just helpful.

Edited by Jon Cole
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what purpose does it serve?

Like asking....

Clothing. What purpose does it serve?

Don't know.... but I'm real glad most people have it!

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I think my screen name,plus my real name below it is enough to identify who I am.

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I think my screen name,plus my real name below it is enough to identify who I am.

Yep. You're that white silhouette on the black background! :lol:

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In case anyone missed my previous post, if you want an avatar but haven't been able to figure out how to do it, or it just hasn't worked for you, PM me and attach the image you want to use and I'll take care of it.

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once upon a time I used an avatar that must have offended a few people.

because a moderator, who shall remain nameless ( I'll give you a hint, his name sounds like a urinary tract infection)

sent me a message asking me to remove it.

profilephoto.jpg

I thought it was pretty funny.

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Then again maybe it isn't ... when I look at the above post it show's the avatar as a screen grab from the gif and not a moving image whereas when I look at it in my profile it's a moving image . What do others see there ?

It's probably a limitation with the forum software, in order to reduce the amount of bandwidth for the main forum pages. It does work when you go into your profile, however they must not allow the gifs to move on the main page.

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I wonder that too sometimes, I also wonder why people dont show their age.

I would have to agree with Name Full, probably dont know how to do it, or just dont care enough to

Got an easy answer for the age thing, would you believe some people were as old as, or as mature a that age they claimed to be by looking at what they post on line and their general behavior on line? I've seen adults throw bigger temper tantrums than some kids when I worked the service desk at Toy's "R" Us if you refused to refund them the money the spent on something we didn't even sell.

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Sorry, I get you two mixed up. You look so much alike! :lol:

They both show a strong resemblance to Frosty the Snowman!

:P

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Yep. You're that white silhouette on the black background! :lol:

Only to people who are too lazy to move their eyes and read. :P

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Only to people who are too lazy to move their eyes and read. :P

...or too lazy to post an avatar. :P :P

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...or too lazy to post an avatar. :P :P

I had an avatar at one time,so no that isn't the case. If it doesn't bother me that I don't have an avatar,I see no reason it should bother anyone else. I do have avatars on the other forums I belong to. :P

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Personally, I appreciate seeing avatars because they make it easier and faster to scan through a thread to see who's posting without having to stop and read a screen name. "Yeah, it's that guy," and I see what he's saying.

On another note, I also had a signature image for a long time that recently seemed to me to take up too much space in a thread, so I dumped it today.

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Hey Inspector Callahan ! How about starting a topic about why we chose the avatar we use ? Might be interesting .

We all know why you picked yours !

BOB .

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Ok, so my picture that I tried to download was too big. Now since I am a technomoron, how do I make it smaller, can't seem to figure it out.

You can use this program to resize it, in the program, click on file, click on open, find the photo you want, and select it, then in the program , select image, scroll down tell you see resize/resample, the in the box that says mega-pixel, type in 200, then go back to file, click save

http://www.irfanview.com/

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Ok, so my picture that I tried to download was too big. Now since I am a technomoron, how do I make it smaller, can't seem to figure it out.

If you are using Windows , Paint will do the same thing ( much easier ) .

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