Your avatar defines you: For you and for others.

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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.

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How bout mine. I just found it randomly on my sis's computer.
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This topic makes me lool.
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All my avatar defines is my rank on Halo 3.
My signature defines how my shield looks while playing Halo 3.
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Post by JacksonCougAr »

Sigh...

Actually read the topic page >_<
The importance of this topic is an avatar with a 'face', an expression.
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Mines a face :0.
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And it makes you seem outraged :o
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And yet, I've never even seen him get really mad.
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Sigh: I give up, its not something you can just point to and say: "Hey look he's a smirking Hobbe so he must be nice" (or whatever my avatar invokes).

I believe simply that over time and with enough use an avatar will affect how people interpret the personality of your posts in general.

If a user had a frowning avatar and said: "This is gay(happy)", you would assume he meant it in a very negative way.

If another user had a grinning avatar you might instead

If you don't believe me just take more notice on how you interpret peoples posts in correspondence to their avatars.

The anti-homo? filters are getting old --_--

Do not post blatantly inappropriate and derogatory content.
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Honestly this thread confuses me to the extent which no other thread has.

How does our avatar define us in anyway.... People do not see Tural's Icon and say... "Hey, he must post like people who fight in dark dungeons in the pits of hell for a living..."



Its more like...


"Hey he likes MK"

And honestly if you are taking people avatars and linking them to people posting personality's.... The thought just saddens me.
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It's more of an examination on the psyche. Your doing it without realizing it is what I am arguing.

Its not like I look at the avatar and say, he must be posting angrily because his avatar is angry! I am saying that we just notice these things and it affects the way we view a post.
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Well that's not true at all for most people... If you are looking at people avatar then giving there posts the attitude of said avatar... you are doing it on purpose dontcha suppose?
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Huh.
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Post by ScottyGEE »

People look at my posts and are reminded about how kool I am because of my avatar. The only thing that is classier is the monopoly guy. And Chad has that taken.

But really, ScottyGEE is with Tural in that its a visual identifier. It allows me to skip posts from people I know don't say things I wanna read. The time when that was hard when Ketchup when crazy and put his silly face on everyone's profile :P

edit: and yes I get what he means. That it plays a role in how you interpret the posts. However I don't really feel the same.
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I guess i'm the only one that gets him. :?
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kody1721 wrote:I guess i'm the only one that gets him. :?
Actually, I understand Cougar too.
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JacksonCougAr wrote:Its not like I look at the avatar and say, he must be posting angrily because his avatar is angry! I am saying that we just notice these things and it affects the way we view a post.
I don't know, maybe it's just me, but it sounds like you're saying the same thing there.
affects the way we view a post.
he must be posting angrily because his avatar is angry!
Isn't that identical? It seems to me like all you're changing is the intensity of your statement. Seeing someone's posts as being in angry tone because of an angry-seeming avatar is an example of an avatar "affecting the way we view a post."
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Khas, I'm not going to lie, I don't want to meet you if your avatar represents you.
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shadowkhas wrote:
JacksonCougAr wrote:Its not like I look at the avatar and say, he must be posting angrily because his avatar is angry! I am saying that we just notice these things and it affects the way we view a post.
I don't know, maybe it's just me, but it sounds like you're saying the same thing there.
affects the way we view a post.
he must be posting angrily because his avatar is angry!
Isn't that identical? It seems to me like all you're changing is the intensity of your statement. Seeing someone's posts as being in angry tone because of an angry-seeming avatar is an example of an avatar "affecting the way we view a post."
That is true: I am not trying to say that the avatar is the 'be all and end all' of how people view a posts 'tone' or personality. I am suggesting that its an insidious affect, that builds up over time (although in some cases right away). It's all relative.
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MoDFox wrote:Khas, I'm not going to lie, I don't want to meet you if your avatar represents you.
Done.
JacksonCougAr wrote:That is true: I am not trying to say that the avatar is the 'be all and end all' of how people view a posts 'tone' or personality. I am suggesting that its an insidious affect, that builds up over time (although in some cases right away). It's all relative.
Okay. I don't see the point of this topic, though. Woo, people have an avatar that may or may not correlate to their posting style. Cool.
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Post by JacksonCougAr »

It's for debate on the topic: but since its took 3 pages to explain the topic... eh...

Its worthwhile to note there has been 2 avatar changed because of this thread.

3 if you count mine; as that inspired the creation of the thread.
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