- ReZeNeR
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- Exalted Mythic Member
I’m not in favour with this proposal.
Firstly, most moderators spend a great deal of time creating their avatars that is “unique to them” instead of creating for general purposes. What would happen if someone doesn’t wish their avatar to be distributed to the public? Do we forcefully take it from them, or let them keep it? I’m not sure about you, but if an owner wishes to keep his avatar he created himself, by all means let them.
Moderators also use avatars that define who they are in the cyber world. By seeing the avatar alone, you can instantly identify who they are. By making custom avatars public, they no longer represent anything anymore but simply an avatar. When mods retire, I will remember them, and I’m sure some of you too by their avatars. I’ll remember JaF by his sick marathon black character with the light, or Yoozel with the cool Spartan shooting dual pistols (not sure if he made it or not), and others just simply by their dominating sick looking avatars.
On the contrary, making some current forum avatars, with the owners permission, public would be a good addition for the community. Ghandi and Gods Prophet both got their avatars from the Myth instruction manual. When they retire, (hopefully not until the world ends =P) making these, and possibly more avatars from Bungie’s past games would be a good addition to the bunch that’s there already.
I personally think that more “Bungie” avatars, from past Bungie games, ect, would be a nice addition or more fan inspired ones for that matter. But in the end, it should be the owner’s choice whether he wishes to release his avatar to the main pool, or keep it as his own.
[Edited on 2/13/2007]