Your avatar defines you: For you and for others.

Philly · Post by **Philly** » Thu May 01, 2008 12:57 pm

I'm taking this 'face' idea to new heights.

DarkShallFall · Post by **DarkShallFall** » Thu May 01, 2008 1:00 pm

<----Halo 3 Emblem ftw. It doesn't define a person. I think a signature has more of a personal touch, thats why its call a signature.

JacksonCougAr · Post by **JacksonCougAr** » Thu May 01, 2008 1:01 pm

You twat: this is about avatars >_<

bcnipod · Post by **bcnipod** » Thu May 01, 2008 1:02 pm

Philly wrote:I'm taking this 'face' idea to new heights.

LOL I like it.

Philly · Post by **Philly** » Thu May 01, 2008 1:05 pm

Your avatar says more about your mods than you may think.

0m3g4Muff1n987 · Post by **0m3g4Muff1n987** » Thu May 01, 2008 1:08 pm

Even though your avatar doesn't necessarily reflect your personality, other people see it all the time and they kind of subconsciously form an opinion about you. So yeah, it does affect people's views of you, even though it's not usually true.

metkillerjoe · Post by **metkillerjoe** » Thu May 01, 2008 1:14 pm

<----- This describes me perfectly. In fact, that is why I chose it. I am a nerd who will come home, and during the winter, won't even take off my coat. I'll just start playing WoW, Halo, Crysis, or whatever. It also give me an aura of being anonymous.

Wow, don't even realize when I don't have it here.

shadowkhas · Post by **shadowkhas** » Thu May 01, 2008 1:17 pm

Staring at a Mazdaspeed 3 that is parking, RIGHT NOW, is more interesting than this thread.

Anyway...I don't think the avatar changes anything. Continuing to use Tural as an example, as we are familiar with him, he stated clearly, even before he changed avatar images, that he's growing more and more indifferent to the website. The avatar has no correlation to his posting methods, except for maybe that both have changed due to the people of this website. If I make my avatar a giant smiley face, does that make me any different? No, it'll just make my positive posts seem more positive, because that what people will draw out. If anything, it's a selective perception.

JacksonCougAr · Post by **JacksonCougAr** » Thu May 01, 2008 1:19 pm

I perhaps gave the wrong idea what I was arguing for. We shall all need to agree that avatars can affect perception. kthxbye.

ares-erus · Post by **ares-erus** » Thu May 01, 2008 1:20 pm

JacksonCougAr wrote: We shall all need to agree that avatars can affect perception. kthxbye.

No we don''t.

JacksonCougAr · Post by **JacksonCougAr** » Thu May 01, 2008 1:22 pm

Your anonymous. A mask. A nothing. Your only voice is in your text so you need to be careful. Why? Because the Internet is toneless and avatars help alleviate this tonelessness.

ares-erus · Post by **ares-erus** » Thu May 01, 2008 1:24 pm

JacksonCougAr wrote:Your anonymous. A mask. A nothing. Your only voice is in your text so you need to be careful. Why? Because the Internet is toneless and avatars help alleviate this tonelessness.

oh so someone is going to try and attack me because i dont have some pretty picture to look at?
Oh ok then right...

0m3g4Muff1n987 · Post by **0m3g4Muff1n987** » Thu May 01, 2008 1:30 pm

...What? Where did he say anything about attacking you?

ares-erus · Post by **ares-erus** » Thu May 01, 2008 1:32 pm

He was saying i should be carefull because where i am anonymous with no avatar, signature or anything else someone may get hostile.

bibbit · Post by **bibbit** » Thu May 01, 2008 1:33 pm

Yep. Lock your doors.

I think an avatar has extremely little effect on interpretation of a post. I look at text to find the meaning of a post, not unrelated images next to the text.

Nuff said.

WaywornMmmmm · Post by **WaywornMmmmm** » Thu May 01, 2008 1:39 pm

The way I see it is if someone has no sig or avatar, they are newer and have less credibility.

ares-erus · Post by **ares-erus** » Thu May 01, 2008 1:49 pm

WaywornMmmmm wrote:The way I see it is if someone has no sig or avatar, they are newer and have less credibility.

Little ignorant isn't it?
bibbit here for example joined in 2006 yet he dosnt have a avatar.

GametagAeonFlux · Post by **GametagAeonFlux** » Thu May 01, 2008 1:50 pm

-Legendary- wrote:And then there's some people who never change change their signature >__>... gtaf ;x

Why fix what ain't broken?

metkillerjoe · Post by **metkillerjoe** » Thu May 01, 2008 1:51 pm

GametagAeonFlux wrote:
-Legendary- wrote:And then there's some people who never change change their signature >__>... gtaf ;x
Why fix what ain't broken?

Because you are an engineer?

WaywornMmmmm · Post by **WaywornMmmmm** » Thu May 01, 2008 2:58 pm

ares-erus wrote:
WaywornMmmmm wrote:The way I see it is if someone has no sig or avatar, they are newer and have less credibility.
Little ignorant isn't it?
bibbit here for example joined in 2006 yet he dosnt have a avatar.

It is ignorant, but it would make sense that the new users know less, and haven't set up a profile.

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Your avatar defines you: For you and for others.

Do you believe that avatars in any way at all can affect your perception on a posts 'tone' of voice? AKA: agree with some of the points I have made within these pages.