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Subject: Screenshots as avatar?

Why do people in ship mutinies always ask for "better treatment"? I'd ask for a pinball machine, because with all that rocking back and forth, you'd get a lot of free games.

Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself: "Mankind". Basically, it's made up of two separate words - "mank" and "ind". What do these words mean? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind.

I think that would be a neat option and it would be easy to report lewd/gross images.


Your thoughts.

  • 12.19.2007 5:29 PM PDT

It is an interesting idea. The use of items to spell out expletives aside, it seems to me that it would be difficult to produce pictures that were anything more than suggestive of lewdness.

However, in terms of loading the pages quickly and efficiently, isn't allowing each individual member the freedom to choose a unique screen shot as their avatar pretty much the same thing as allowing everyone to use a custom avatar anyway?

  • 12.19.2007 6:06 PM PDT

It IS as bad as you think and they ARE out to get you.

I'm going to have to agree, the idea is great, but would slow page load times and is open for abuse.

[Edited on 12.19.2007 6:11 PM PST]

  • 12.19.2007 6:11 PM PDT

It probably would take a long time to load. Unless there was some kind of cropping tool made available that we could use to snip out one 90 x 90 pixel space in the screenshot, the avatar would still load at the same speed that an ordinary 1920 x 1080 JPEG would load, because of all the data in the image. The only difference would be that the ordinarily-gigantic screenshot would then be jammed down into a 90 x 90 pixel square.

  • 12.19.2007 6:28 PM PDT

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That's an interessting idea. To put screenshots as an avatar. i like the idea alot. but i am a bit worried that the picture will end up being to small for the avatar slot. Maybe if you could customize it like you can your emblem in Halo 3! Toggle and change color, things like that.

  • 12.19.2007 7:41 PM PDT