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Subject: Why can't we have our own avatars?

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Posted by: CrazzySnipe55
I, er, I wasn't... I... my post, it, uh, well... if you'll just reread... and...

Sarcasm.
How is it sarcasm? It looked like plain ignorance to me, so I responded as such.

Perhaps you should be more careful with your wording?

  • 05.19.2012 6:24 PM PDT

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Posted by: Lord Pyro
Avatars aren't special, and not abusable.


HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH You are funny!


Posted by: evilcam
Perhaps if you attained a certain trust rating, you could then be allowed to upload a custom avatar. It would add some value to an account, and it would weed out the people who would be more prone to abusing it.


That would be sweet.

As to everybody being able to have their own custom avatar that is retarded, this is the internet people like to abuse things. The only way I can see everybody being able to have a custom avatar is if we had to go through a process where we submitted the avatars, and somebody would approve of what avatars would go on or not then that would work but i don't think anybody would like the job of approving avatars all day. So I don't think that will ever happen.

  • 05.19.2012 6:27 PM PDT

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Install coup. I use it for my custom avatar, that's about all I use it for.

  • 05.19.2012 6:28 PM PDT

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Posted by: LH Justin

Posted by: CrazzySnipe55
I, er, I wasn't... I... my post, it, uh, well... if you'll just reread... and...

Sarcasm.
How is it sarcasm? It looked like plain ignorance to me, so I responded as such.

Perhaps you should be more careful with your wording?
It's common knowledge that people cite possible abuse as a downside to everything that is suggested as a feature for the site. I was making fun of that. People do it a lot.

I apologize for misleading you.

  • 05.19.2012 6:28 PM PDT

Strange evolution how people have come to believe
That we are it's greatest achievement
We're barely, we're just a collection of cells
Overrating themselves

Because pr0n should not be used as an avatar here.

I would wager vital parts of my anatomy that things like that would show up within seconds of Bungie allowing custom avatars. This is one of the restrictions I fully support.

[Edited on 05.19.2012 8:14 PM PDT]

  • 05.19.2012 8:13 PM PDT

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Posted by: True Underdog
Only after we ban Bricypoo.

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  • 05.19.2012 9:36 PM PDT

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Posted by: Lord Pyro
Avatars aren't special, and not abusable.
John Cena....

  • 05.19.2012 9:46 PM PDT

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because we cant have nice things.

  • 05.19.2012 10:36 PM PDT

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Posted by: True Underdog
I would never look at some kind of avatar queue.



I'd take that responsibility. I'll have no problem laughing at people trying to get away with cropped portions of genitalia.

  • 05.19.2012 10:39 PM PDT

It only takes a simple question to change everything.

If I remember correctly, Achronos said custom avatars would slow down the website. I could be off on that.

I personally wouldn't want to deal with shock avatars.

  • 05.19.2012 10:41 PM PDT

Straight from HFCS. If that doesn't answer your question, I dunno what will.

  • 05.19.2012 11:32 PM PDT

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This is why we can't have nice things. People ask Bungie a little too much for themselves.

  • 05.19.2012 11:33 PM PDT

I don't know about you, but I essentially have my own personal avatar.

  • 05.19.2012 11:36 PM PDT

Posted by: LH Justin
Also, you can't "attach" a virus to a regular image file. Learn how the Internet works...
I'd like to interject here.

Image files contain data (which is just text) in the same way that programs with viruses contain data (which is also just text). Believe it or not, downloading a virus is completely harmless unless another program executes the commands within it, which is where it becomes a problem.

That being said, image files can contain malicious Javascript which, if and when read and executed by the browser, can be a security problem, especially in older browsers. A modern browser like Chrome, for instance, actually catches this and displays the full page "something's not right here" message.

And it has nothing to do with the Internet.

Posted by: LH Justin
The real issues behind custom avatars is the massive amounts of avatars that would be uploaded to Bungie's servers. Although this would cause nearly the amount of trouble animated GIFs would cause when attempting to load a thread.
Not if the images were stored and delivered via a content delivery network then cached in the browser. Not to mention that objects like images which are separate from text in the HTML are downloaded separately so as not to block the rendering of the rest of the page.

  • 05.19.2012 11:57 PM PDT

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[UNINTELLIGIBLE > INSUBORDINATION(?)]

Are you saying my avatar isn't special?

>:/

  • 05.20.2012 12:03 AM PDT

Please stop complaining about the 'death of a loved one' it's my job. They probably deserved it anyways. Here's a warning, if you keep making pentagrams out of the neighbors livestock I will personally come to your house and kill everyone you love. Now leave me alone, I got to get back to work.
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I would like a custom avatar option, I'm content with mine though.

  • 05.20.2012 12:09 AM PDT

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The problem is that bnet has alot fo trolls. Other forums rarely have any. Bnet is so secure though that trolls love to troll it just to put the security to the test. If you want to keep your mental health stable, avatars should not be custom.

  • 05.20.2012 12:20 AM PDT

Posted by: Recon Number 54
Install Coup, observe, have your question answered, turn Coup off to save your visual sanity.
Thisthisthisthisthis

All issues of abuse and technical limitations aside, people here have consistently shown that they're utterly lacking in any sort of taste and shouldn't be allowed anywhere near any sort of avatar freedom.

If you want to browse bungie.net with customs avatars, eat a bag of skittles and then make yourself throw up on your screen. The effect will be indistinguishable.

  • 05.20.2012 12:22 AM PDT

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I don't get how other sites with worse mentality have custom avatars, and Bungie hasn't. But its all relative..

  • 05.20.2012 12:49 AM PDT
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The only way I see this as being feasible is if there is the ability to opt in and out. Everyone would select one of the default avatars so the people who opt out would just see those. When you opt in there would be a disclaimer noting that while the moderation team will do their best to ban users with inappropriate avatars it can't be guaranteed to happen immediately. Next there should be a report option specific to inappropriate avatars which will show up differently in the report queue. Anyone found with an inappropriate image would be banned and forced to permanently opt out.

  • 05.20.2012 12:52 AM PDT
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Posted by: Rhea
Canada isn't that important that it needs two of the same threads on page one.

I wouldn't see why a trust system couldn't be implemented. It takes 1-2 years of activity with no bans to become a Legendary member, 2-3 for Mythic.I don't think someone is going to wait 1-3 years in order to put genitalia as their avatar.

Although, this wouldn't matter unless coup disappeared or was rendered useless.

[Edited on 05.20.2012 2:01 AM PDT]

  • 05.20.2012 2:00 AM PDT

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Posted by: Eric Duffy
So Mods stand out.

  • 05.20.2012 3:17 AM PDT

Jack of all trades, master of none.

They should whitelist image hosting sites that can be used for the custom avatar that do not allow inappropraite images to be posted, like coup does.

  • 05.20.2012 3:30 AM PDT
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:)


Posted by: Lord Pyro
This website has been up for so long, but still has no avatars.
Avatars aren't special, and not abusable.

Lol'd hard.

  • 05.20.2012 3:32 AM PDT

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Posted by: Godzneighbor
People would abuse it.


This.

  • 05.20.2012 3:47 AM PDT