The Moderator Poll

[joecrisp]

Originally Posted by Dave Butz Baby!

Anyhow, on the subject of avatars (and I know this has been beaten to death in the past), are you really considering letting us pick them? I have a sweet picture of Butz (resized to 100x100) with his ultra battle-scarred helmet that would be really cool to use...

I do like the idea of picking our own, but as was discussed in a thread some time ago, I'd hate to see that their use screw up the clean and simple layout (which I love) that the site has. That simply wouldn't do!

I don't think it would be a problem, as long as all avatars are the same, standard size we use now. Once you get into letting guys throw whatever they want on there, regardless of size or relevance, that's when it really starts to make the board look messy and disorganized. That's something I really dislike about some of the other boards. I'm all for individuality, but some of that stuff just detracts from the quality and appearance of the board, and distracts readers from the discussion at hand.

That's just my . I think a Dave Butz avatar for DBB! would be really cool.

[Dave Butz Baby!]

Originally Posted by joecrisp

I don't think it would be a problem, as long as all avatars are the same, standard size we use now. Once you get into letting guys throw whatever they want on there, regardless of size or relevance, that's when it really starts to make the board look messy and disorganized. That's something I really dislike about some of the other boards. I'm all for individuality, but some of that stuff just detracts from the quality and appearance of the board, and distracts readers from the discussion at hand.

That's just my . I think a Dave Butz avatar for DBB! would be really cool.

I completely agree... the "cleanness" of this board is one of the things that attracted me here in the first place. I hate going on boards where the posts have five pictures in their sigs, ten waving flags, non-topical avatars, different sizes, etc etc etc. Unlike Penthouse, I actually read this board for the articles and am not interested in seeing a thousand people try their hand (mostly badly) at Photoshop. The pic I found of Butz was bigger, but I actually reduced it to 102x102 pixels to match the other ones. You can still really see the gouges in his helmet... great stuff!

And yes.. I completely agree that DBB! should have a Dave Butz avatar! Ade Jimoh Fan Club should get an Ade, Smootsmack should get his #21 pic, SBF should get a pic of a guy in a leather hat slinging the ball....