User-submitted Avatars upload
Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 7:50 am
Having managed a couple of forums in the past myself, I'm pretty sure there's an option to enable users to upload their own avatars. Of course, they can be limited by both file size and dimension. This would help out a lot because it would cut down on the admin having to check the avatar submission threads (huge time saver) and would allow us to freely switch between avatars at any time. Having hundreds of pics of our chows, my wife and I would probably benefit from being able to upload our own.
The only reason I can think of to not enable this function would probably be inappropriate content, but now that the forums allow attachments and have always allowed custom sigs and the [img] tags, I don't think that's as big a risk.
Don't close the "Avatar Submission" forum though because not everyone knows how to make their own, but instead rename it "Avatar Requests" - a place where members can post the pics they want made as avatars and any member can 'pick-up' the request and make/upload desired avatar themselves.
My wife and I submitted an avatar last week, already properly resized to 80x80 and compressed to less than 8kb and a week later, the avatar still hasn't been uploaded. This would help a lot.
Thank you
Juan
The only reason I can think of to not enable this function would probably be inappropriate content, but now that the forums allow attachments and have always allowed custom sigs and the [img] tags, I don't think that's as big a risk.
Don't close the "Avatar Submission" forum though because not everyone knows how to make their own, but instead rename it "Avatar Requests" - a place where members can post the pics they want made as avatars and any member can 'pick-up' the request and make/upload desired avatar themselves.
My wife and I submitted an avatar last week, already properly resized to 80x80 and compressed to less than 8kb and a week later, the avatar still hasn't been uploaded. This would help a lot.
Thank you
Juan
