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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?
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- Brain Farts and Actual Farts Increasing with Age
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Posted 2008-February-29, 10:41
"Gibberish in, gibberish out. A trial judge, three sets of lawyers, and now three appellate judges cannot agree on what this law means. And we ask police officers, prosecutors, defense lawyers, and citizens to enforce or abide by it? The legislature continues to write unreadable statutes. Gibberish should not be enforced as law."
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Posted 2008-February-29, 11:23
Are you telling me, the picture of golem is not a photo? 
Adam W. Meyerson
a.k.a. Appeal Without Merit
a.k.a. Appeal Without Merit
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Posted 2008-February-29, 13:25
I tried doing just that, and it said that the board administrator had not enabled permissions.
This one for Rain?
This one for Rain?
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Posted 2008-February-29, 14:11
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"
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"
I constantly try and "Esc-wq!" to finish and post webforum replies.
Aaron
Aaron
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Posted 2008-February-29, 15:18
finally17, on Feb 29 2008, 03:11 PM, said:
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.
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