kenrexford Posted February 29, 2008 Report Share Posted February 29, 2008 If you look on the list of folks who post on BBF, there is a column for "photo." You also have the option, with a special box to check, to sort only those of us who have a photo. And yet, no one has a photo. WTF? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awm Posted February 29, 2008 Report Share Posted February 29, 2008 Are you telling me, the picture of golem is not a photo? ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr1303 Posted February 29, 2008 Report Share Posted February 29, 2008 I tried doing just that, and it said that the board administrator had not enabled permissions. This one for Rain? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
finally17 Posted February 29, 2008 Report Share Posted February 29, 2008 I can think of a # of good reasons why I don't bother: 1) i haven't actually tried on bbo, but in my previous experience you generally have to resize an avatar yourself. while it would only take 30 seconds, i'm not interested enough to spend the 30 seconds. 2) it's a bit of a pain to find a suitable picture. i'm certainly not going to put one of myself up, because while i don't mind having fellow bridge players know what i look like, i make it a point to not do that kind of thing in publicly accessible forums. 3) there are people in the world still on dial-up connections, and the more data you put on a webpage, the harder it is for those people to load the pages, the less likely they'll be to participate. a 15kb picture will add 5 seconds of load time to someone on a 56 k modem. i'm not saying this should stop you, but it stops me. it kinda boils down to being really not worth the effort. i do have to admit that i laugh at jlall's avatar...kinda wish he'd make it just a headshot and see if he can get anyone to think it's actually him. and han's always makes me do a double-take: "is he really that big of a Star Wars fan? oh, duh, idiot here" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimG Posted February 29, 2008 Report Share Posted February 29, 2008 3) there are people in the world still on dial-up connections, and the more data you put on a webpage, the harder it is for those people to load the pages, the less likely they'll be to participate. a 15kb picture will add 5 seconds of load time to someone on a 56 k modem. i'm not saying this should stop you, but it stops me. One has the option to turn off avatars (and smilies). I don't see either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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