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Offline UnendingRequiem

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On a popular website I go to, Bungie.net, someone created a third party script for Greasemonkey. It works for Firefox and Google Chrome. It lets people who use the script have custom profile information that isn't supposed to be on the site, but appears for the user, as well as others who use the script. It lets the users have their own custom avatars that can be pretty much anything as well as custom usernames, custom text, and more. Someone should make a script like that for here, it's completely off-site and so there's nothing the moderators could do about it. So, who wants to make a script so we can have our own custom coups here?

Example of coups (I'm Jesus):


Coup user edit area example:

 

Offline The E

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 :wtf:

Why would you want to mess up one of the prettiest sites on the web with ugly avatars?
If I'm just aching this can't go on
I came from chasing dreams to feel alone
There must be changes, miss to feel strong
I really need lifе to touch me
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Offline UnendingRequiem

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:wtf:

Why would you want to mess up one of the prettiest sites on the web with ugly avatars?
Are you calling Jesus ugly?

 
One of the reasons a lot of us like this site is because of the lack of avatars and image sigs. They just clutter up the page.

So, yeah, not interested.
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Offline Sushi

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As long as it's purely greasemonkey, with everything stored externally, and completely invisible unless you install the script and opt in...

Go for it, I don't care. I sure won't be signing up.

 

Offline The E

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Yeah, if it's just some greasemonkey business, noone's stopping you.

Also, yes, I do call Jesus ugly. Same goes for all the other Avatars on display there.
If I'm just aching this can't go on
I came from chasing dreams to feel alone
There must be changes, miss to feel strong
I really need lifе to touch me
--Evergrey, Where August Mourns

 

Offline Black Wolf

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+1 for Sushi's position. Nobody can stop you messing around with greasemonkey, but I doubt you'll get much uptake from the regulars.
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Offline karajorma

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Yep, that's my opinion of the idea too.

Although anyone publicly complaining about someone's avatar, sig or any other meta-feature gets banned. :p
Karajorma's Freespace FAQ. It's almost like asking me yourself.

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Offline Nuclear1

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Although anyone publicly complaining about someone's avatar, sig or any other meta-feature gets banned. :p
Typhon's are so 1998 :p
Spoon - I stand in awe by your flawless fredding. Truely, never before have I witnessed such magnificant display of beamz.
Axem -  I don't know what I'll do with my life now. Maybe I'll become a Nun, or take up Macrame. But where ever I go... I will remember you!
Axem - Sorry to post again when I said I was leaving for good, but something was nagging me. I don't want to say it in a way that shames the campaign but I think we can all agree it is actually.. incomplete. It is missing... Voice Acting.
Quanto - I for one would love to lend my beautiful singing voice into this wholesome project.
Nuclear1 - I want a duet.
AndrewofDoom - Make it a trio!

 

Offline sigtau

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Well, hey, admins shouldn't get avatars when regular users can't since it has no affect on their power.  :rolleyes:

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Sarcasm doesn't carry well over text, in case you couldn't tell by the above example in my post...
« Last Edit: March 30, 2011, 08:16:16 pm by sigtau »
Who uses forum signatures anymore?

 

Online Shivan Hunter

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Honestly, if someone makes this script and people use it, I don't care... but why for the love of the Great Old Ones would you mess up a perfectly simplistic forum design? The design of a single post is straightforward, simplistic, not messy, and consistent with other posts.

I visit forums that allow avatars and sigs. I invariably turn them off. Why? Because frankly, they're ugly in and of themselves. I know all the crap people can spew about expressing individuality, but this simply results in inconsistent color schemes, inconsistent image sizes, and inconsistent styles of picture, which looks like mullticolored crap even when the sigs and avatars by themselves look great. Look at the forum pic you posted again- each post is maybe half a line, but there are garish sigs and avatars (and background colors for posts, who in the name of Admiral Chiwetel Steele thought of that) which do nothing but distract from the content of the post.

At HLP at least- I can't say this for many other forums- your post is about its content, not what it looks like. To say otherwise just seems ridiculous and counterproductive. You can have it if you want, but you're seriously degrading your experience.

Oh and yes your Jesus avatar is in fact ugly, just sayin'

 

Offline NGTM-1R

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To be fair, on such a forum as is pictured you would want rather desperately to distract from the content of your posts, 'cuz the level of discourse there ain't doing you any favors.
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Online Shivan Hunter

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Well, it's Bungie... no surprise there... :P

 

Offline Rodo

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owww.. I wanted slowpoke as an avatar  :(

Anyway... I do believe it's best that HLP stays clear of avatars.
el hombre vicio...

 

Offline Polpolion

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On a popular website I go to, Bungie.net, someone created a third party script for Greasemonkey. It works for Firefox and Google Chrome. It lets people who use the script have custom profile information that isn't supposed to be on the site, but appears for the user, as well as others who use the script. It lets the users have their own custom avatars that can be pretty much anything as well as custom usernames, custom text, and more. Someone should make a script like that for here, it's completely off-site and so there's nothing the moderators could do about it. So, who wants to make a script so we can have our own custom coups here?

Example of coups (I'm Jesus):
<snip>

Coup user edit area example:
<snip>

Well, if this people that don't want to look at your avatars don't need to see this stuff unless they choose to install firefox and get the script, knock yourself out; no one's stopping you and likely no one will care.

 
:wtf:

Why would you want to mess up one of the prettiest sites on the web with ugly avatars?
Are you calling Jesus ugly?

Those avatars look nothing like the guy...

  

Offline Fury

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