**You can now select your own avatar**

Matty, i have to say at first i was very concerned. One of my favorite things about this site was your clever ranking system that both cleaned up the site and gave incentive for people to post. in the world of forums (especially Skins ones), your method was rare and quite original.

people seem to like the options though, so may i make a suggestion?

how about limiting the options per rank? so a camp scrub would only be able to select a relative few (like say between first year players) and as you grow in post ranks you could select more?

that why you could keep the options, and the benefits of posting. making the options tie into their rank, like the previous camp scrub example, would sweeten it even more.

what do you think? I got very used to seeing Gibbs only under the mods over the years, and it's strange seeing scrubs with them now.

oh and we need Breaux, Bugle, Williams and the rest of the coaching staff for the big posters!


I think you make some very valid points

Its funny when I brought it up about asking for a change everybody liked the old way. We even talked about buying your Avatar. Now the change and everybody is comming out saying how great these are. Where the heck were you when I asked this question.

What?
No Sammy Baugh Avatar?

lol

What?
No Sammy Baugh Avatar?

lol
It would be nice - but did they even have cameras when he was playing? Nobody wants an artist's rendering culled from a stone tablet as their avatar. :biggthump

The avatars are already limited to certain usergroups, and as we add more we'll continue to limit them depending on usergroups.

We'll be coming up with something different to differentiate the mods from everyone else.

Don't worry, as I said originally, we'll continue to supply the avatars to choose from to assure a level of quality, Summo is banging out some new ones as I speak. We'll never have pics in the signatures or allow people to upload their own.

i also kinda liked knowing how prolific a poster is by seeing the avatars instead of having to stop and look at numbers a i scrolled down a page. Its not a huge issue for me though.

Its funny when I brought it up about asking for a change everybody liked the old way. We even talked about buying your Avatar. Now the change and everybody is comming out saying how great these are. Where the heck were you when I asked this question.
I think everyone is going with the flow. Plus it's not a life or death issue for most of us. I am not enamored with the idea but it's really no big deal to me. This is the best whether or not we can choose our own avatars or not.

One suggestion I do make. Everyone needs to haev an avatar. Having some without avatars starts to disrupt the visual flow of the threads.

yeah it's a bit unsettling seeing Art Monk and Riggo as Impact Rookies.

from a certain perspective...Patrick Ramsey as a Camp Scrub almost makes sense...

i like being avatar-less ;)