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Non Gaming Discussions => Suggestions => Topic started by: hondasportbike on November 13, 2001, 06:54:47 PM

Title: Username pics
Post by: hondasportbike on November 13, 2001, 06:54:47 PM
We should be able to post a pic under our usename from the beginning.  Mabey, the pic that we put in the actual post could require us to have so many post.  The pic under the usename is like a calling card, it gives the site color and the user a identity.

Just a thought.
Title: Username pics
Post by: SwifDi on November 13, 2001, 07:21:34 PM
Username pics= Avatars

Hmmm...

I think avatars should be earned through commitment through the site by posting therefore I like how it is now.

OMG, I\'ve been here for a day and I\'m already bout\' to get an avatar, ice cream for me!

(Eats ice cream)

(Gets severe brain freeze)

(Falls to the ground with multiple seizures)

(Dies)
Title: Username pics
Post by: Titan on November 13, 2001, 07:25:14 PM
Yeah, you really need to earn it. But I suggest you wait for 1400 posts. It may seem like a lot but I\'ve been here since July and only have a few hundred more to go. It goes fast. Your stars don\'t freeze because their at wise member status and your rank will be wise member. There is a lovely thread about this in the Main Forum named Newbies Come Here written by Soulgrind. Check it out. It explains everything.
Title: Username pics
Post by: SwifDi on November 13, 2001, 07:32:50 PM
Am I still considered a newbie?
Title: Username pics
Post by: ApeX on November 13, 2001, 08:07:02 PM
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Originally posted by Vapor Snake
Am I still considered a newbie?
yes, if you post a bunch of crap and spam to get your oic then you have no insight to the games. granted im sure you have stuff that your very passionate, but i have not read it yet. because to me wasting a post saying "Eh?" is not the most quality post you could think of

im gonna wait till 1400 posts before i get an avatar, its a long ways away but i\'ll make it!
Title: Username pics
Post by: SwifDi on November 14, 2001, 06:20:19 PM
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Originally posted by ApeX
yes, if you post a bunch of crap and spam to get your oic then you have no insight to the games. granted im sure you have stuff that your very passionate, but i have not read it yet. because to me wasting a post saying "Eh?" is not the most quality post you could think of

im gonna wait till 1400 posts before i get an avatar, its a long ways away but i\'ll make it!


Eh?

;)
Title: Username pics
Post by: Sublimesjg on November 14, 2001, 09:35:28 PM
yea well i dont think newbie is determined by post count but by the time someone has spent here

there are plenty of people here longer then me with low post counts and it doesnt make still not a newbie to them

anyway back on topic - i earned mine you earn yours :p
Title: Username pics
Post by: lionken07 on November 15, 2001, 11:04:05 AM
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Originally posted by Sublimesjg
yea well i dont think newbie is determined by post count but by the time someone has spent here

there are plenty of people here longer then me with low post counts and it doesnt make still not a newbie to them

anyway back on topic - i earned mine you earn yours :p


yea but when do we get to change the member status ourselves? This is not for mod. only right? Do you have to like at least go to the wise member status first?
Title: Username pics
Post by: SwifDi on November 15, 2001, 01:17:07 PM
I don\'t really like the titles here so much. "Wise Member" "Junior Member" It\'s not very original.
Title: Username pics
Post by: on November 15, 2001, 04:08:40 PM
I think that we should become a member and then get a picture...It helps me to remember better!!!
Title: Username pics
Post by: videoholic on November 15, 2001, 06:06:17 PM
You bunch of whiners!!!!  Of you want a freaking avatar at post #1 then suck it and go somewhere else.

A lot of us earned pics and that makes them worth something.  Just hang out and join the conversation.  There is plenty to talk about here and it takes no time at all to get to 500.

If we just gave you a pic then it would mean nothing.


Only Jamie gets a pic under 500 because he is just a dweeb.
Title: Username pics
Post by: SwifDi on November 15, 2001, 06:48:32 PM
I think Wise Member sounds dumb. It\'s like, wow, you have 3000 posts, your wise. No he\'s not! He\'s pathetic. He has spent half his life on these forums! Therefore, he should be Dumb Member, not Wise Member!

I\'m really pissed here! (Enters mad smiley, because so stupid doesn\'t know how to make one)
Title: Username pics
Post by: videoholic on November 16, 2001, 03:10:17 AM
Getting to 3000 is not that big of a deal.  I spend maybe 10 minutes total throughout the day here.  I just type fast and I type a lot.  If something strikes me as funny or interesting, I post.  I\'m certainly not pathetic.  

I have a feeling many of the other posters are the same way.

Wise Member is kind of a lame name though.  It\'s the default for the software.  We should come up with different level names.
Title: Username pics
Post by: hondasportbike on November 17, 2001, 10:23:20 AM
Guess what, even if I earn it, Big F$cking deal, still won\'t mean a damn thing!  I just want one because then I won\'t look ordinary.   I don\'t need to be a forum God with 1245346 billion posts.  I just want a lame ass little pic under my name.  If I wanted to earn something, I would get a damn job!


Ok.  I feel better now.  Time to go take my medicine.
Title: Username pics
Post by: Titan on November 17, 2001, 11:13:30 AM
The pictures really do need to be earned though. It shows that you are dedicated to the forums. Wait until 500 and then get your avatar. You get it in no time if you post here everyday. I registered at the way end of July and i almost have 900.
Title: Username pics
Post by: lionken07 on November 17, 2001, 12:19:55 PM
and you don\'t even have a pic yet? guess your waiting for that 1400 mark?
:yawn:
Title: Username pics
Post by: Luke on November 17, 2001, 12:52:27 PM
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Originally posted by Vapor Snake
I think Wise Member sounds dumb. It\'s like, wow, you have 3000 posts, your wise. No he\'s not! He\'s pathetic. He has spent half his life on these forums! Therefore, he should be Dumb Member, not Wise Member!



and you call yourself my new best friend!

phooey on you!
Title: Re: Username pics
Post by: videoholic on November 17, 2001, 02:34:11 PM
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Originally posted by hondasportbike
Guess what, even if I earn it, Big F$cking deal, still won\'t mean a damn thing!  I just want one because then I won\'t look ordinary.   I don\'t need to be a forum God with 1245346 billion posts.  I just want a lame ass little pic under my name.  If I wanted to earn something, I would get a damn job!


Ok.  I feel better now.  Time to go take my medicine.



Having a lot of posts doesn\'t make you a forum God.  Having interesting posts makes you a God.  From the looks of things, even if you had a billion posts, you would still be a peasent.


And get a freaking job you loser!!!
Title: Username pics
Post by: Titan on November 17, 2001, 02:54:38 PM
Quote
Originally posted by lionken07
and you don\'t even have a pic yet? guess your waiting for that 1400 mark?
:yawn:


I am because I don\'t want my stars to freeze along with my rank. I\'m smart. Me and Luke and anyone else who actually waited.
Title: Username pics
Post by: Sublimesjg on November 19, 2001, 04:28:30 PM
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Originally posted by lionken07


yea but when do we get to change the member status ourselves? This is not for mod. only right? Do you have to like at least go to the wise member status first?


well i only know of a few of us with personal member statuses - guess we were just lucky or something
Title: Username pics
Post by: Titan on November 19, 2001, 07:21:13 PM
How did you get those personal member statuses?
Title: Username pics
Post by: mm on November 19, 2001, 07:50:59 PM
they asked nicely

clyde would do it for a nanner or two

:)
Title: Username pics
Post by: SER on November 24, 2001, 03:26:58 PM
So I will NEVER become a Wise Member?!!?

F*CK THAT, I\'M LEAVING THEN.




joke :laughing:
Title: Username pics
Post by: Coredweller on December 06, 2001, 03:19:20 PM
I have always felt that this whole post minimum requirement for avatars is a form of elitism.  Not the most obnoxious example I\'ve encountered on the Internet, but it is elitism nevertheless.

I\'m generally against situations where people set up artifical barriers to separate "US" from the vast uninvited "THEM."  I think avatars are useful to help readers remember individual posters, and they\'d be even more useful if everyone had them.

In my case I could get one, but I\'ve just been too lazy to decide on the right picture and make it.  I\'m not waiting for "Senior Member" status; I don\'t really care about that.
Title: Username pics
Post by: Sublimesjg on December 06, 2001, 03:37:03 PM
Quote
Originally posted by Vapor Snake
I think Wise Member sounds dumb. It\'s like, wow, you have 3000 posts, your wise. No he\'s not! He\'s pathetic. He has spent half his life on these forums! Therefore, he should be Dumb Member, not Wise Member!

I\'m really pissed here! (Enters mad smiley, because so stupid doesn\'t know how to make one)



feels as if this is directed to me

well ummm you are the one bragging about having so many posts a day lol

you are very hyprocritical you know that lol - its cool though
Title: Username pics
Post by: mm on December 06, 2001, 04:24:47 PM
<<<--- Elitest

and darn proud of it!
Title: Username pics
Post by: Bozco on December 08, 2001, 10:24:20 AM
I think its good how it is now, having to get 500 post, it makes the avatar special, I still remember wanting a pic and mm wouldn\'t give it to me because he said I got to 500 to fast, but now that I think about it he was right, an avatar is something special at this site
Title: Username pics
Post by: RichG on December 16, 2001, 12:01:07 PM
Yeah whatever March 2001 and 1700+ posts boy!

How do you get 6 stars like videoholic ?