trinitrotoluene
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Avators
I am wondering, since other sites have avators shoulden't we have out own too? I think an avator is a great addition to put profile.
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Polverone
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I considered it, but I've seen too many ugly avatars on other sites. I can't give everyone good taste, so I do the second best thing: leave
avatars off.
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Blind Angel
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maybe putting a list of avatar that we can take without allowing us to upload them, and adding a sticky thread taht would allow us to post new avatar
to be approved...
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Polverone
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show off your proposed avatars
You should already <A HREF="http://www.sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?tid=603">know</A> how to upload pics to the
server. I don't want people to have identical avatars. No duplicates allowed, sorry. No animated avatars either. Post your avatars for approval
here. I unfortunately have no way of turning avatars on/off on a per-user basis, so I'm going to have to see enough avatars here to convince me
that the quality and interest are high enough to justify enabling an often-abused feature of message boards.
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Rhadon
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Not that I think that avatars are really necessary, but they can be a nice addition to a forum because they are somewhat of a personal mark of each
member. They can get annoying if their dimensions or filesize are too large, but I think you already got that point  .
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Blind Angel
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My avatar
The Blind (Kenshi in mk5)
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vulture
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I assume it's the standard 150x150 pixels?
[Edited on 4-9-2003 by vulture]
One shouldn't accept or resort to the mutilation of science to appease the mentally impaired.
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chemoleo
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is that cubane (or whatever u call it again) with 8 NO2s? very nice
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BrAiNFeVeR
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I designed it some time ago when I watched alot of the darkangel series.
Maybe I'll make a new one shortly ...
[Edited on 4-9-2003 by BrAiNFeVeR]
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vulture
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Indeed, octanitrocubane, designed with the new chem3d 8.0. You can really see what difference OpenGL hardware acceleration makes..
One shouldn't accept or resort to the mutilation of science to appease the mentally impaired.
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IPN
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Is the size ok?
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vulture
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Seems to be a bit on the wide side.
Use photoshop or other imagery program to resize the largest dimension to 150 pixels and make sure the aspect ratio is being maintained.
One shouldn't accept or resort to the mutilation of science to appease the mentally impaired.
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I am a fish
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How about...
...or something along those lines. I'm still working on it.
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I am a fish
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What's the policy on avatars that appear to be ordinary GIFs, but are in fact animations that briefly flash up a hardcore pornographic image
every few minutes?
Banned?
Tolerated?
Mandatory?
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vulture
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Banned.
One shouldn't accept or resort to the mutilation of science to appease the mentally impaired.
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I am a fish
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| Quote: | Originally posted by vulture
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How did I know you were going to say that?
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BASF
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@i am a fish
that pic´s great   
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Baphomet
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I'm being anal-retentive with this, but the FAQ implies that avatars are activated
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BromicAcid
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The subject of Avatars was also brought up here:
http://www.sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?tid=2025
Which references this thread. We don't have them at the moment and personally I don't really like the look of a site cluttered with avatars and
broken image files. I love sciencemadness the way it is, that's why I tried to shoot down the idea like a raise for school teachers.
Nonetheless, it's always up for discussion is it not?
(Not to stereotype too heavily, but the spelling of the thread title seems to exemplify the quality that avatars bring to a forum, at least in my
biased point of view.)
[Edited on 11/22/2006 by BromicAcid]
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DeAdFX
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As long as the avatar contains something science related then I think its a great idea.
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Baphomet
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Bromic has a point about quality control. When avatars are abused it gives a forum that pre-school look. What if avatars were vetted in some way,
maybe even as a form of reward for good post quality?
IMO anything taller or wider than 70 pixels or thereabouts is too big.
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