250 Post selected Avatars

[~Shard~]

Lighten' up, man. Did you see the smileys? I'm not trying to get on the radar or your nerves. Your reaction is beginning to frighten me!

I'm sorry you took it that way.

Careful, or else you might find that for some reason it takes you 1000 posts to get an avatar instead of 500...

 

[yenko]

Careful, or else you might find that for some reason it takes you 1000 posts to get an avatar instead of 500...

I should start proofing my humor more carefully before I post.

 

[Doctor Q]

I think it should all be automated on a gradual scale instead of being all-or-nothing. Your avatar size can be automatically maintained proportional to your post count, with a rate of 10 pixels per post. After your first post you can have a 3x3 pixel avatar. After 10 posts you have 100 pixels to work with, so that's 10x10. After 250 posts you have 2500 pixels, or 50x50.

You could set your avatar to any image within the size you have currently earned, and set it to stay as is or scale proportionally larger as you post.

Mr. Anderson's avatar would be 452x452 pixels! Hmmm, maybe that rate is a bit high.

 

[mad jew]

I love it Doctor Q.

Can we carry it across to font sizes too? Newbies can only type in size 0.5 whilst Mr. Anderson gets size 72.

 

[Doctor Q]

Can we carry it across to font sizes too? Newbies can only type in size 0.5 whilst Mr. Anderson gets size 72.

Let's not. It might get a wee bit annoying.

 

[mad jew]

Are you kidding? It'd be neat-o.

 

[MacDawg]

Good grief, there is more spamming in here from those with 'tars than those without!

Woof, Woof – Dawg

 

[~Shard~]

Good grief, there is more spamming in here from those with 'tars than those without!

Your point being?

Yeah, it's probably time to shut this thing down - it's been fun....

 

[nbs2]

260

Well, it turns out i have 260 posts. This thread is the only reason I bothered to look. In all honesty, I wonder why people place so much on the need for an avatar. If you are really here for the community, I would think that pictures and titles and post counts would be something that you fall into as a sort of "oh wow, have i really spent that much time here?" type of thing.

 

[atszyman]

I think it should all be automated on a gradual scale instead of being all-or-nothing. Your avatar size can be automatically maintained proportional to your post count, with a rate of 10 pixels per post. After your first post you can have a 3x3 pixel avatar. After 10 posts you have 100 pixels to work with, so that's 10x10. After 250 posts you have 2500 pixels, or 50x50.

You could set your avatar to any image within the size you have currently earned, and set it to stay as is or scale proportionally larger as you post.

Mr. Anderson's avatar would be 452x452 pixels! Hmmm, maybe that rate is a bit high.

Adjust it to 1 pixel per post tracking clockwise around. This would put Mr. Anderson at roughly 143x143. You could set an avatar and have it slowly revealed as you post. Newbies get to start off with a dot at their first post, but they get to choose the color of the dot...

 

[dcv]

Mr. Anderson's avatar would be 452x452 pixels! Hmmm, maybe that rate is a bit high.

With my 12 inch PowerBook I'd pretty much only get to see an avatar and no text!

 

[mkrishnan]

With my 12 inch PowerBook I'd pretty much only get to see an avatar and no text!

I knew there was a reason you needed to buy a 2405FPW or a 30" ACD.

 

[edesignuk]

With my 12 inch PowerBook I'd pretty much only get to see an avatar and no text!

What did I say to you about 12" screens?

 

[dcv]

What did I say to you about 12" screens?

- that i'd only get to see a huge avatar and no text?

Ahhh but I love my BabyBook.
Blame Dixons for my lack of ACD...

 

[im_to_hyper]

I like me avatar. It is nice. It fits my personality quite well, I think. Kinda bland, but yet it reasures me knowing that I will have the same one daily.

And to whoever asked about demis getting avatars, I have 300 posts, therefore, no avatar.

 

[dizastor]

I'm all for the "slow poster" exception.

I've been here since '01 and I haven't hit 300 posts yet.

 

[GorillaPaws]

Not that this would ever happen, but i'd be cool if next to your post count, it displayed your average words per post. Instead of 500 posts you'd need something like 25,000 words. It'd certainly cut down on the one liner spam posts. Of course this would cause it's own problems such as Charles Dickenson-like posts (He got paid by the word) e.g: The new iMac, being clad in a luminously beautiful casing, exibiting all those properties which a computer ought while concurrently excluding all of those properties which a computer ought not to have, was nice. But in the end, I think it's pretty good the way it is. I'm not sure I'll ever hit 500, but maybe oneday.

 

[Jonx]

well its been a year ( nearly) for me and i have 47 total posts, that means I need 9 more years to get an avatar LOL