Avatar! Or 'av two if ya want!

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Thanks. Took me ages to come up with symbols for all 16 of them.

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mine’s one of those “we’re number one” souvenir foam finger things usually made for sports teams, except for the city of Atlanta, not a sports franchise. It’s shaped for the “A” hand-sign, most notably disseminated to the world by Usher at the beginning of his monster hit “Yeah,” (a kind of annoying song but whatevs.) “Peace up, A-town down” i.e. the peace sign, if you point it down and use your thumb for a cross-piece, makes an A-for-Atlanta sign.

So somebody here locally makes foam finger things like that and I found a pic of one and edited it to best stand out as a tiny logo. It’s still a little small, it’s easier to see when you expand my inline “user card” thing, though.

Also, I firmly agree with @Kimmo, when y’all change your avs I really don’t know who I’m talking with anymore. But I’m not against fun or personal expression, i don’t think limiting a user to a permanent av is a good idea, either. @sam, @codinghorror, can y’all make a thing on people’s profiles that has a little thumbnail gallery of all the users’ past avatars, please? (in the case of what M_M is doing ITT, you could limit the gallery to avatars that lasted more than a couple days at a stretch to prevent flooding.) Is that a realistic request? If I could access it from the user card–maybe like a little scrolling list?–it would eliminate a lot of confusion for me.

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the problem is even more serious: I don’t recognize my own comments anymore and flag them as inappropriate

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I can see how that would get confusing.

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Que?  

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Do you think all the goat avatars are throwing off Discourse? I mean those are two very different looking goats.

(And English is my first language.)

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Haha
I do not have the urge to flag myself. :wink: But indeed a problem with recognising.

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I’m fine with it. Not sure why @M_M has @renke’s quote attributed to me. (I was assuming he was just being funny.)

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Attempting to. No malice behind it. I wouldn’t change attributes without it being both funny and (hopefully) harmless. :slight_smile:

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We can flag our own posts? Doesn’t that cause a singularity or something?

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I didn’t thought about this real danger.

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Let’s try it!

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I just tried to PM myself.

And I don’t know if this should be here or in the “Explain it like…” thread. :confused:

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Like this?

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it can be done. I’ve done it. I can’t remember why. it was back when Antinous was a mod.

you’re thinking of dividing by zero.

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Not a bad idea, perhaps create a meta topic to elaborate? It would be useful to have history of usernames as well, not just avatars.

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We did add the ability to PM yourself a few weeks ago. It is a little odd, but we couldn’t come up with any reason not to allow it other than “seems odd” but perhaps people can find their own uses for it: notes, super long term drafts, etc.

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I like that idea! I’ve used PMs in small groups for longer-term collaborative writing projects with great success… why not make it usable for the single person who’d like to access it from any handy web- accessible device?

Sounds great!

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It’s very neat. The only minor detail is that the message to yourself doesn’t appear in the Inbox. Which sounds like it might be a really complicated fix.

As a scratchpad for notes, drafts and dicking around formatting complicated posts and polls so you’ve got them saved and ready to copypasta at moments notice though… brilliant.

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I find it a bit confusing too, though I had to update mine due to sad circumstances (hurt a little every time I saw the thing), and will likely have one more update once I can get a decent portrait of the new hedgehog.

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