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Location: Brighty in Blighty | In your profile you can set a pic (avatar), why not enable it? |
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Location: Newington, CT | There are some reasons -- usually having to do with server storage; enforcing image size constraints; having to deal constantly with the "How do I..." questions; etc. -- but the objections can be oversome by knowing how the internet operates, and putting a fairly simple FAQ's page that tells essentially the same thing as the "How to post an image" page.
This is all dependent, of course, on the mechanism being the same as the image-posting mechanism. And, it probably should be, because that method demands the least from server resources.
JMHO. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | because, I would get banned. |
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Location: Brighty in Blighty | What are you on about? That sounds like a cut and paste from somewhere.
The forum software supports it and avatars are usually TINY (i.e. 50k or so). |
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Location: Brighty in Blighty | In fact the forum software is running 6.7.2, the latest version is 7.4! |
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Location: Newington, CT | Lol! Not a cut and paste...I'm a former (and future, I hope) internet consultant...I was just trying to imagine why someone wouldn't enable it.
I know internet stuff from a very low level -- servers, drives, protocols, RAM and resource use, etc.
However, I admit freely, that I'm ignorant of the nuts and bolts of a lot of the front-end applications that generate a forum such as this one. I used to deal with the servers they crashed and had to reverse engineer what the heck happened. Usually it was the overwhelming of a resource (storage space, RAM, bandwidth, cache, etc). |
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Location: NW Washington State | I think that Miles is trying to keeps this old forum simple and low maintenance. The flashy stuff is available on the http://ovationfanclub.ning.com/ site.
-Steve W. |
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Location: Newington, CT | 'Course, it also coulda come disabled by default, and no one thought to enable it...Sometimes it's just something simple. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Mine works just fine... just Click my name. |
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Location: Brighty in Blighty | Ah! So I was expecting the pics to be displayed to the left of each posting like other forums. Cool guitar dude. |
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Location: Newington, CT | Or...it could be working just fine and all this fuss and bother was unnecessary...wouldn't be the first time in dealing with computers or the internet! |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | KISS...! |
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Location: Brighty in Blighty | hmm |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Originally posted by dweezil:
Ah! So I was expecting the pics to be displayed to the left of each posting like other forums. Ah... But this was put-up 'Old School'...
Do you really want to be reminded what some of the members look like?
After all, we have the Ning site with all the bells & whistles and folks decided they like this better.
The technology changes daily.
Ten years ago, Windows98 was state-of-the-art (for PC)...
Now they have Vista, which only goes to show that 'New' doesn't always mean 'Better' :p
If you go to the BC Rich Players Community, they have photos in the sig line...
The novelty of that wears-off Real Quick! |
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| Besides, not everyone uses a pic of themselves. Some use famous people, a cartoon character or a pair of shoes. The list is endless. |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by dweezil:
hmm Sorry, it's probably a US thing... KISS = Keep It Simple, Stupid. The 'stupid' is generic... not aimed at anyone specific, especially YOU!  |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | No. KISS is international. The 'stupid' is aimed at ME! |
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Location: NJ | the problem is you can link pictures from many places. these places can show up where the workplace monitors your computer usage.
so you open up a thread with 20 posts and it shows 20 different websites that you are visiing.
the other reason is I really don't want to police the images that people post. As you are aware some can post some questionable stuff. |
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Location: Scotland | Hey Rupert, most people use fake names in their profiles. Why would a fake picture be a benefit? |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by muzza:
The 'stupid' is aimed at ME! ... NOW we know "the rest of the story"!  |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | "Would you like to come up to see my etchings?" |
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Location: Chicago | Yeah, the "Dobro" resonator guitar was named after me! True story, suppressed by "The Man": I can't collect any royalties, no nuthin' When I make a noise, men in black come to my door. So I added a letter, changed my first name and play OVATION guitars just to shake the hellhounds from my tail.
I even wrote a song about it:
I lit out from reno, I was trailed by twenty hounds
Didnt get to sleep last night till the morning came around.
Set out runnin but I take my time
A friend of the devil is a friend of mine
If I get home before daylight, I just might get some sleep tonight. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | I don't know if UBB.classic supports avatars. It does not show as an item in my profile so I'm gonna guess the answer is no. Your best bet would be to ask Miles. |
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| If people really feel that posting a picture of themselves is a good idea then they could most likely past a photobucket link into every post..lol |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | In addition to what Al mentioned, it's also a performance issue. Not so much for the server, but for the audience. 78 countries so far this month, I'm sure many are still on dailup, as well as iPhones, other smart phones. Just keeping it simple.
K-I-S-S.. want a profile with an "all about you..," sounds just like the thing for a Social Network... Ovation FanCLub Social Network. http://ovationfanclub.ning.com/
Also.. FYI the latest version of UBB.Classic is only 6.7.3. |
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Why not enable profile photos?
