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Old 11-14-03, 11:49 PM   #10 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Bluskale
Although they should be available to everyone.
With person-person real life contact, you identify individuals by far more than their names (heck, I hardly remember people's names half the time, but i still know who they are). Having avatar support helps create identities for different posters, which is very important, imho, for the creation of any sort of viable community.

I would think making these forums amiable would be of high concern?
Making the forums amiable is a high concern. But I don't think visitors are more likely to join the forums because of the avator feature. What attracts visitor to register and join networking is the content and the activities that takes place on the forum itself.
I agree that having avators might help create an identity on the username but not for everyone. I have created identity and can easily distinguish several members by reading their posts alone.

I will enable avators.

Welcome to the forum Bluskale. Thanks for your feedback and would you care to tell us how you found the forum and maybe create an introduction thread?
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