22-07-2002 05:31									#1
	Avatar Description / Explanation Field Support Apolyton, buy Civilization 2

Avatar Description / Explanation Field

When I see somebody's flag and think "what is that?" I just have to hold the cursor over it to see the name of the country.

Why not have the same thing with custom avatars? Each profile could include an editable field of up to 25 chars to provide a description.

	22-07-2002 07:20									#2
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not bad!, Not bad at all

	22-07-2002 07:32									#3
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I love this idea also.

	22-07-2002 07:59									#5
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Considering all the crap some people put in their signatures and location fields... I have no interest in giving them another place to put more crap

	22-07-2002 08:05									#6
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*Trip Wants to put crap under his avatar too.

Awww, come on, pretty please?

	22-07-2002 08:44									#7
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quote: Originally posted by Ming Considering all the crap some people put in their signatures and location fields... I have no interest in giving them another place to put more crap

Ming...turning down the opportunity to flex his banning muscles more? Who'da thunk it?

	22-07-2002 08:48									#8
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C'mon Ming, it might divert us from putting so much crap in the threads for a moment.

	22-07-2002 09:16									#9
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quote: Originally posted by MattyBoy C'mon Ming, it might divert us from putting so much crap in the threads for a moment.

Nice try !!

Please Ming

C'mon, giv'm willy(sp?) (Izzard quote btw)

	22-07-2002 09:20									#10
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I have to go with Ming on this, but for different reasons. I don't want anything else slowing down this forum.

	22-07-2002 09:38									#11
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That's a good idea, actually.

Alternate idea: display your exact postcount when you hover the mouse over the avatar.

Last edited by ixnay on 22-07-2002 at 10:05

	22-07-2002 10:19									#12
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Ah, this wouldn't be hard to implement at all. For postcount, you'd just have to change the postbit_avatar template to:

PHP:


<img src="$avatarurl" border="0" alt="Postcount:  $post[posts]">

PHP:


<img src="$avatarurl" border="0" alt="$post[fieldx]">

	22-07-2002 10:27									#13
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I'd rather have my avatar trigger an annoying piece of MIDI music when somebody clicks on it. Any piece of Christian rock would do nicely, or else one of the more questionable Moody Blues songs.

	22-07-2002 14:31									#14
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quote: Originally posted by Ming Considering all the crap some people put in their signatures and location fields... I have no interest in giving them another place to put more crap

Yeah, some people even put the same crap in their location field AND their sig...

	22-07-2002 14:59									#15
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No more crap, thank you

	22-07-2002 17:13									#16
	Avatar Enlargement: We've got the solution

I think we should have it, just so Ron Jeremy can mess with the minds of whoever hovers the cursor over his avatar.

	22-07-2002 17:22									#17
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I support that original suggestion. Descriptions for custom avatars wouldn't be bad at all. More advertising space available to sell to my sponsors.

aaglo, are you trying to be somekind of anti-spam watchdog?

	22-07-2002 17:26									#18
	Avatar Enlargement: We've got the solution

Rasbelin;
I'm not an anti-spam watchdog. I just recognize spam when I see it

	22-07-2002 17:52									#19
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*laughing like Homer Simpson*



BTW, I feel now more supportive than before for those descriptions after recently starting to use my new custom avatar. It really needs it.

	22-07-2002 17:59									#20
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What is that avatar...? A crocodile having a Napoleon-complex?

	22-07-2002 19:41									#21
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quote: Originally posted by alva848 Please Ming

It's not up to me... It's up the owners... and so far, I haven't seen their replies yet

	22-07-2002 20:51									#22
	Re: Avatar Description / Explanation Field Support Apolyton, pre-order Civilization IV

quote: Originally posted by MattyBoy When I see somebody's flag and think "what is that?" I just have to hold the cursor over it to see the name of the country. Why not have the same thing with custom avatars? Each profile could include an editable field of up to 25 chars to provide a description.

yeah! good idea
but why limit it only to custom avatars?
and why only 25 characters?

	22-07-2002 22:10									#23
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I'm against it. The forums will become too heavy to load.

	23-07-2002 00:12									#24
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Just don't put it into the Light stylesheet.

I think it is a great idea!

	23-07-2002 03:21									#25
	Re: Re: Avatar Description / Explanation Field Avatar Enlargement: We've got the solution

quote: Originally posted by Andemagne but why limit it only to custom avatars?

yeah. you hover over my symbol and a box comes up saying [SMAC-Nautilus Pirates faction symbol]. Andemagnes would say [Civ II-knight] and mattyboy's would say [a cow]. what is that cow anyway?

	23-07-2002 04:14									#26
	Full PM-box? Change here!

Actually, doing it the way I proposed would let anyone put whatever they want there, regardless of whether or not their avatar is custom.

	23-07-2002 05:43									#27
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quote: Originally posted by aaglo What is that avatar...? A crocodile having a Napoleon-complex?

Nope, Mozilla disquised as Napoleon.

A crocodile, hmph...

	23-07-2002 07:02									#28
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PHP:


<img src="$avatarurl" border="0" alt="Postcount:  $post[posts]">

PHP:


<img src="$avatarurl" border="0" title="Postcount:  $post[posts]">

The W3C standard specifies title as the tooltip text. I don't know if it works in IE, but alt doesn't work in Opera and that's all that matters.

	23-07-2002 08:15									#29
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Ah... I haven't seen title used before, just alt. The default template in vbulletin looks like this:

PHP:


<img src="$avatarurl" border="0" alt="">

	23-07-2002 09:20									#30
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I was suggesting it to limit to 25 chars and only be for custom so that the loading would not be much slower. What's the point in knowing what the non-custom avatars are?

I figure that an average of perhaps 10-15 extra chars per post would have a trivial load time compared to the avatars themselves.