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What do you do with three avatars?

I noticed, that I can add more than one avatar, but I am not sure how to put them to a good use - so how do you use your three avatars?

I like avatars - in a lengthy discussion the avatars help to find posts by a specific person at a glance, but that purpose surely would be defeated if everybody kept changing the avatars at will - so what to do with three of them?


  • Use different avatars like emoticons?
    • using a fierce looking avatar when answering a recalcitricant poster who is unwilling to answer any questions and refuses to read the manual
    • and switching to a friendly, cute, angelic avatar when taking to a shy newbie?
  • Use a new avatar to celebrate a new reputation level?
  • Use different avatars for posting in different communities - a musical avatar in the GarageBand forum, a technical one in the System oriented boards, cool pictures in the Aperture and iPhoto communities?
  • Change your avatar as "Season's Greetings"?
  • Ignore them, but enjoy the knowledge and the privilege that you just might use them some day?


So what do you do with them? Just curious.


Regards

Léonie

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3), 17'', 2,2 GHzIntel Cor i7, 8 GB RAM

Posted on Mar 12, 2012 8:29 AM

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Posted on Mar 12, 2012 8:34 AM

I have the same problem choosing ...... I will probably just keep using the "Apple Issued" ones.

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Mar 12, 2012 9:16 AM in response to léonie

leonieDF wrote:


Use different avatars like emoticons?

  • using a fierce looking avatar when answering a recalcitricant poster who is unwilling to answer any questions and refuses to read the manual
  • and switching to a friendly, cute, angelic avatar when taking to a shy newbie?

Won;t work the avatars aren;t sticky. The avatar shown is always the current one not the one set when you created the post.




Use a new avatar to celebrate a new reputation level?


Possible we'll see 😉




Use different avatars for posting in different communities - a musical avatar in the GarageBand forum, a technical one in the System oriented boards, cool pictures in the Aperture and iPhoto communities?

Like above, won;t work.




Change your avatar as "Season's Greetings"?

Or for 'Hitch Hikers Guide Day'




Ignore them, but enjoy the knowledge and the privilege that you just might use them some day?


And miss have scintillating conversations like this!




I like avatars - in a lengthy discussion the avatars help to find posts by a specific person at a glance, but that purpose surely would be defeated if everybody kept changing the avatars at will


Perhaps this is actually the best reason to change them!


regards

Mar 12, 2012 9:27 AM in response to Frank Caggiano

Won;t work the avatars aren;t sticky. The avatar shown is always the current one not the one set when you created the post.

I know, it would only work for the present, while browsing past posts the reference to any avatar is very confusing.


Or for 'Hitch Hikers Guide Day'

I couldn't get online when that happened and missed it - do it again, Sam!


And miss have scintillating conversations like this!

😁


Use a new avatar to celebrate a new reputation level?


Possible we'll see 😉

I'll hold my breath and wait for your 8k!


Cheers, and thanks for your input!


Léonie

Mar 13, 2012 4:08 PM in response to léonie

😁 Good detective skills.


I wonder if it's a deliberate server lag thing? Delaying some of the implementation of an avatar change until there's a quieter moment?


I did worry the first time that I changed avatars at ASC that I might have crashed the servers. (Tens of thousands of database changes after all ... everything here went very slowly for a while.)

Mar 13, 2012 4:21 PM in response to b noir

😁 Good detective skills.

Thanks for the compliment 🙂


Delaying some of the implementation of an avatar change until there's a quieter moment?

Good point, that would make sense. I'll check tomorrow if the "frozen" avatars will change after all.



I did worry the first time that I changed avatars at ASC that I might have crashed the servers.

Then I am even more puzzled why we are encouraged to change avatars, by being given three of them 😕

What do you do with three avatars?

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