Avatars???

[I-SIG]

Hey, Micah! Are y'all gonna activate the avatar option on the BB? I have one on GlockTalk. I would like to use one here. It would be different obviously, but still.

For those that don't know what an avatar is, it's a little pic (75x75 pixels or so) below your name on the left side of the BB. I can also change what is said below my name too, but I had to be a senior member for that option.

Wes

[RuSsMaN]

...don't forget to vote in your own poll.....

Russ

[I-SIG]

Thanks for the little reminder RuSsMaN!

C'mon people! I figured there would be a lot of interest in a little more customization. That's what HS/HT is all about!

Wes

[dorokusai]

I must have missed this poll, yes I would love to have an avatar.

I have some ready right now :)

[Zero]

Hell yes.

[danger boy]

sounds like a good idea to me. but where do i get an avatar?

[HBombToo]

I would by a 30 pack, unleash the Twin and snap a gooden for all to see who there dealing with:p

HBomb

[Ron-P]

I'm in like Flint!


Peace Out~:D

[dcarlson]

Bump...

Yes.... why not?

I'm sure it could be fixed up so if you didn't want the avatars, you could have it as an option in your profile to not show them.

[goingganzo]

it is a good i dea but it will slow the bords down more. are you haveing a server trubble a few days ago.


just thinking of the dial up peeps. also can you turn off the pics if you have a slow conecton?

[Vr3MxStyler2k3]

Yes u can, in ur profile u can select to see them or not.

[dcarlson]

Avatars are disabled.

The board seems pretty quick to me. I've never had any speed issues. It seemed to me, a few months ago they were doing some server upgrades.

[Double_S]

Another YES here!

[Shizelbs]

I realize this is an old thread, and so far ineffective, but when the hell are we gonna get to have avatars!?!?!?

[Tour2ma]

OK, if they're restricted to jpegs. gif avatars are irritating.

[Ceruleance]

Originally posted by Tour2ma
OK, if they're restricted to jpegs. gif avatars are irritating.


totally agree

[F1nut]

Hell yes!!!

[TheMaster]

yesmm....

[POLKOHOLIC]

This thread is from 3 Years ago. If Polk was to give us avatar option Then it would have taken place a while back. Good Bye.

[dorokusai]

I feel bad for you 56k'rs when the avatars start showing up.... :D

[Shizelbs]

The people have spoken! Give us avatars!!!

[Zero]

We demand avatars! If this demand is not met, we shall pillage the HQ in Baltimore! I got dibs on the SRT's.

[MacLeod]

Obviously this is an effective thread.....so I figured Id try it again.

I want an avatar! :D

[BIZILL]

yes, avatar.

[beardog03]

yep...

I`m with Mac..

I think it`s a cool option..

[audiobliss]

I want an avatar. Well, I actually have one. Well, a few, actually. I want to be able to use them!!!

[MacLeod]

Yeah, I use this one on other forums and want to express my geekdom here too! :D


http://www.animation-station.com/space/images/space028.gif

[audiobliss]

Oooh, that's a nice one! :p

Here would be mine!

[danger boy]

i'd rather have a spell checker over an avatar. but that's just me. (i'm a bad speller)

[organ]

I want an avatar too. Let's all flood Justin's inbox with our request;). Maybe he'll come across this thread. He's surfing the FM forum right now.

[audiobliss]

I can't believe that no moderators have posted in this thread. Maybe we should PM Justin about it.

[PolkThug]

Avatar!
Avatar!
Avatar!

[bobman1235]

Libertad!
Libertad!

Oh wait...

[beardog03]

doro !
doro !
doro !

[steveinaz]

Yep to Avatars and the ability to edit a thread title....hehe

[MacLeod]

I can't believe that no moderators have posted in this thread. Maybe we should PM Justin about it.


By ignoring us, theyre politely telling us, "f'get about it!" :D

[Catbo]

Wow! I'm shocked there is still no "avatars" allowed all these few years of asking for them!!! Strange! Wonder why not. I guess no one is listening who is moderating this web site?

[shadowofnight]

Hell, why not...liven it up a bit

[Jstas]

Because avatars eat up bandwidth that Polk Audio already pays for.

Avatars eat up other server resources that Polk Audio pays for too. Keep in mind that Polk Audio does not collect dues to fund the site and only asks that you be a Polk Audio customer to use the site. Good deal IMO and not worth screwing up over some pictures.

Avatars provide another avenue for people to upload material that someone else might find offensive and complain about.

Avatars clutter up an otherwise clean board and keep things from getting out-of-hand and unreadable.

Avatars have absolutly no use other than to give people pretty pictures to look at and drag down server performance.

I'm all for leaving avatars off of Club Polk.

I think that the ability to edit thread titles would be nice because there have been a few times where I screwed up spelling or something in a thread title and wished I could go back and change it.

[Shizelbs]

With the forum software Polk uses, there is an option to not display avatars if the user so chooses. That would solve the bogged down bandwidth problems.

[steveinaz]

Avatars....many have tried, all have failed. LOL

[Jstas]

With the forum software Polk uses, there is an option to not display avatars if the user so chooses. That would solve the bogged down bandwidth problems.

No, it wouldn't. Because the option to keep avatars from being shown requires more code to be parsed for each post on a page to take the avatar out. That reduces response time, increases processing time and requires more throughput. All of which can drag a server to it's knees depending on user load.


No avatars I say! Harumph!

[danger boy]

what's the big deal with avatars anyway? I could care less one way or the other. to me it's a non issue. if we had avatars, i probably wouldn't use it anyways.

I say if someone wants to have an avatar on here.. they should pay $10 to be able to use it. and those that don't want an avatar won't have to have one.

[halo]

I'll cast a yes vote in favor of avatars :)

[bobman1235]

+1000 to Jstas. Well said.

With the forum software Polk uses, there is an option to not display avatars if the user so chooses. That would solve the bogged down bandwidth problems.

Chances are, if there were avatars, 95% of people would display them, which would still put a strain on the Polk servers (on the SERVER end, not the client end).

[Shizelbs]

The file size of the avatar can be limited.

[Jstas]

The file size of the avatar can be limited.

You're not getting it.

File size is unimportant. It'll eat up bandwidth, that's really it. What is important in the code that gets run behind the scenes that is the problem. Avatars eat up processing cycles because they can be posted multiple times on a page and each posting requires a call to a database which then requires a call to a file system and once those arrays or linked lists are built, they then need to be stored in memory so that the server can build the webpage to serve out to the web server.

The more crap the server has to load into that page, the worse the performance gets because it chews up memory, clock cycles and bandwidth. It doesn't seem like a ton of stuff to one user but look at the numbers of "current users viewing Club Polk" at the bottom of the main page. Multiply that by 25-30 posts per page and you can see how all those server calls and such will drag performance through the floor.

Polk Audio is a perfect example of a quality website. It is fast, has tons of informative info, looks good, is fairly intuitive and doesn't have all these flashy bells and whistles. That goes for both Club Polk and polkaudio.com I like how fast it runs and that when I hit the bookmark, it loads almost instantly and I'm surfing away effortlessly. Avatars will destroy that and cause a pile of system overhead to get chewed up and slow everything down.

Avatars are bad news and I refuse to implement them on a couple of board I manage to help keep costs down.

[dkg999]

No to avatars! It's an administrative and system nightmare. Think back to the events of the last 6 mos and then add in the need to police avatar's. NO, hell NO even.

[Shizelbs]

No, I get it, I just disagree.

Head-fi uses avatars and has way more users than Club Polk. Its also an enthusiast run/owned board. Its fast enough for me.

Heck, I'd be happy enough if all we could choose from is a library of images of Polk speakers.

[Lorthos]

http://i13.tinypic.com/63l1edu.jpg

[mrbigbluelight]

I want Polk to come up with an avatar that smells like biscuits and gravy.

I want what I want.

And I want it now !!

:eek:

[nms]

meh. Waste of badnwidth IMHO, but I seem to be in the minority.

[BAD ASP]

I voted ...."why not" until I read about the degredation of the sight due to bandwidth corruption. I change my vote to no.
Like most of you I belong to several other sights that allow avatars and have a lot of advertising....they have become incredibly slow.
I do enjoy being able to catch up here and move on after 10 minutes or so. I can come back in a few hours and catch up again.........I prefer the way it works now.

[zingo]

I was just thinking about that today! I found a funny picture, and said, "Hey, this would be great for my CP profile! Oh, wait; never mind..."

[jwhitakr]

Hey, we got the i-Trader feedback system not too long ago ... that was MORE than enough for me. Feedback on transactions from the FM is a million times more useful and more valuable than some silly avatars.

Dare I say it ... but if you really want avatars, why not start up your own forum and go crazy with as many friggin avatars as you want? That will allow the folks at Polk Audio to spend their time and energy to focus on what really matters ... speakers! *gasp from the crowd*

[Shizelbs]

Set the default option for everyone's profile to avatars disabled. That was the estimated number of people viewing them would be much lower than the projected 95%.

If Polk was so concerned about bandwidth, they could disable posting pictures.

[danger boy]

first it's avatars, then people will want new smileys.... will it ever stop?

Death to avatars!

Have a nice day! :)

[MacLeod]

I just want avatars so I can put up my picture of Kate.

http://i32.tinypic.com/121wys5.jpg

Mmmmmmm. Kate. This has been my avatar for a long time on other forums. Call me crazy but I just never get tired of seeing her in a hot, tight, leather, vampire outfit!

[treitz3]

For what it's worth, I would appreciate if an avitar were an option here at CP.

[Refefer]

I like avatars. In leau of that, I'd take html signatures :D

[Shizelbs]

I like avatars. In leau of that, I'd take html signatures :D

+1...

[Face]

IMO, HTML sigs clutter things up.

Avatars would be nice though.

[danger boy]

I want a pony









:rolleyes:

[Lasareath]

first it's avatars, then people will want new smileys.... will it ever stop?


Nope, it won't stop. We want it all!

Will we ever stop trying out new amps and cd transports?