What is the deal with CREEPY Avatars anyway?

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Toby Henderson

Yes my nose is the size of Texas

Holy Toledo! A nose the size of Texas!??? Does that mean that the Dallas Cowboys could play an entire NFL season inside your nasal passages? Impressed. Now that's a TOUCHDOWN!!!!

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Richard Van

11 years ago

I don't sell anything here so it doesn't really bother me if I look like a clown on drugs.

I act like a clown on drugs anyway so it's fitting really.

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Dan Riffle

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Richard Van

I don't sell anything here so it doesn't really bother me if I look like a clown on drugs.

I act like a clown on drugs anyway so it's fitting really.

Richard, I always thought your pic looked like a 70's porn star...on drugs.

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Richard Van

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Dan Riffle

Richard, I always thought your pic looked like a 70's porn star...on drugs.

That's exactly what it is Dan before I had to face reality and get a job on a building site. Age withered it away and the work dried up. Amongst other things.

The OP mentioned clowns, so I ran with it, foolishly, as though my youth had returned.

Now I will just cry and look back on my seventies heyday when they called me Dick, which is short for Richard.

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Dan Riffle

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Richard Van

Now I will just cry and look back on my seventies heyday when they called me Dick, which is short for Richard.

Don't worry. People still call you Dick.

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Richard Van

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Dan Riffle

Don't worry. People still call you Dick.

I knew you were a fan.

Back in 1974, after several hundred requests, I signed a poster of me in my heyday and sent it somewhere in the states to some spotty 16 year old called Daniel Ribble.

It was you wasn't it?

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Dan Riffle

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Richard Van

I knew you were a fan.

Back in 1974, after several hundred requests, I signed a poster of me in my heyday and sent it somewhere in the states to some spotty 16 year old called Daniel Ribble.

It was you wasn't?

Good Lord, man! How old do you think I am!

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bizgrower 11 years ago

Originally Posted by Dan Riffle

Good Lord, man! How old do you think I am!

Careful. Just sayin'.
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Richard Van

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Dan Riffle

Good Lord, man! How old do you think I am!

Well, jokes aside, I wasn't even born then myself.

I wasn't a porn star either. Sadly.

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Dan Riffle

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Richard Van

Well, jokes aside, I wasn't even born then myself.

I wasn't a porn star either. Sadly.

Shooo...

I know I come off as this worldly, brillaint sage type, so I thought you might be confused.

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Richard Van

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Dan Riffle

Shooo...

I know I come off as this worldly, brillaint sage type, so I thought you might be confused.

Um, I didn't actually say you weren't about in the 1974.

I just said I wasn't.

You certainly are brillaint though and I'm sure you smell much nicer than well travelled sage.

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Dan Riffle

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Richard Van

Um, I didn't actually say you weren't about in the 1974.

I just said I wasn't.

You certainly are brillaint though and I'm sure you smell much nicer than well travelled sage.

Hey, you can be smart and not know how to spele.

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Richard Van 11 years ago

Originally Posted by Dan Riffle

Hey, you can be smart and not know how to spele.

I know, I managed to miss off an entire word speaking to you earlier.

Did I just assume I was smart?
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Claude Whitacre 10 years ago

Originally Posted by Richard Van

Now I will just cry and look back on my seventies heyday when they called me Dick, which is short for Richard.

Originally Posted by Dan Riffle

Don't worry. People still call you Dick.

....and it's still short.
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Sumit Menon

11 years ago

I make up for all of the creepiness here with my avatar.

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MissTerraK 11 years ago

Originally Posted by Sumit Menon

I make up for all of the creepiness here with my avatar.

I think your avatar has cornered cuteness.

Terra
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- Dan Riffle 11 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by MissTerraK
  
  I think your avatar has cornered cuteness.
  
  Terra
  
  Methinks someone is on a fishing expedition...
  
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  MissTerraK 11 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Dan Riffle
  
  Methinks someone is on a fishing expedition...
  
  :rolleyes:
  
  Perhaps if I had used one of my grand babies faces for my avatar, but not mine, not mine.
  
  If I were to fish for compliments on mine, I'd be looking for words like beautiful or gorgeous but you and I both know that isn't going to happen. :p
  
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  Paul Myers 11 years ago
  
  Terra,
  
  I'd be looking for words like beautiful or gorgeous but you and I both know that isn't going to happen. :p
  
  Piffle.
  
  Those are beautiful earrings, and that's a gorgeous background.
  
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  MissTerraK 11 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Paul Myers
  
  Terra,Piffle.
  
  Those are beautiful earrings, and that's a gorgeous background.
  
  Paul
  
  LOL!
  
  I knew I liked you! Thanks for once again making me smile and giving me a chuckle.
  
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MissTerraK

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Toby Henderson

So yes I have been here since 2010 and yes I am just starting to post more and I noticed something...

Lately here on the warrior forum I have seen the most CREEPY looking avatars on the PLANET EARTH...

Yes my nose is the size of Texas but guess what I really dont care because some of these clowns are selling deals and they have the frigging creepyest cartoon avatars you have ever seen...

Please do yourself and my eyes a favor... Just use your own image. In sales it is best to be honest on the internet we lack clarity its better to clarify that you are human and willing to help. DO this by just using an image of your self, your face can put a potential customer at ease where as these images you see in the warrior forum are extremely weird... How can you be taken seriously if your pic is a little evil looking troll cartoon, no seriously. Be a REAL PERSON, with REAL PRODUCTS that You Imagine YOURSELF REALLY SELLING... Now if you want to use your company or some slick graphic that's cool in business you never want to sound small time because customers like to buy and feel safer from a company that is Big. Psychologically speaking...

Make Your Marketing message CONSISTENT by not having weird Images as your avatar its annoying and a waste of your time. Do yourself another favor if you are not mentally ready for a deal go to the beach then comeback when you are ready to upload an avatar that is more respectable... ENd rAnT

No, no, no! You've got it all wrong.

That doesn't matter down here, not down here. It's always just like Halloween here in the lounge as in when you get here, you never know whether you're going to get a trick or a treat.

Terra

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Midnight Oil 11 years ago

If there are avatars that offend you that much, here's your solution:

Go to Your Control Panel > Settings & Options > Edit Options > Thread Display Options

Uncheck Show Avatars
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Paul Myers

11 years ago

I get what the guy is saying. I've seen some avatars that would be more appropriate for an anti-social teenager on an MMORPG forum than for a merchant selling to other businesspeople.

Doesn't exactly inspire me to buy from them. Or even take their comments seriously.

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Kay King

11 years ago

How can you be taken seriously if your pic is a little evil looking troll cartoon, no seriously.

I am NOT a troll!

Not everyone wants to be visible online - when I started out I was under the radar due to a stalker. It got to be a habit that I was comfortable with.

For every person using a weird avatar there's probably two using a "good photo" - of someone else.

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Claude Whitacre 11 years ago

To the OP....

:confused::confused:
"sniff" "sniff"...I really look like that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UA6Y4AiSKc
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- MissTerraK 11 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Claude Whitacre
  
  To the OP....
  
  :confused::confused:
  I really look like that.
  
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discrat

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Kay King

I am NOT a troll!

Not everyone wants to be visible online - when I started out I was under the radar due to a stalker. It got to be a habit that I was comfortable with.

For every person using a weird avatar there's probably two using a "good photo" - of someone else.

Kay,
Is that a real Life caricature in your Avator ?

Robert

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kenmichaels 11 years ago

Originally Posted by Paul Myers

Doesn't exactly inspire me to buy from them. Or even take their comments seriously.

From you ... that surprises me.

I subscribe to the adage;
Don't judge a book by its cover.

Usually, not always ... after all, I can't be perfect all the time. :rolleyes:
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discrat

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Paul Myers

I get what the guy is saying. I've seen some avatars that would be more appropriate for an anti-social teenager on an MMORPG forum than for a merchant selling to other businesspeople.

Doesn't exactly inspire me to buy from them. Or even take their comments seriously.

Paul,
Is that a real Life Caricature in your Avator? J/K

Robert

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Paul Myers 11 years ago

I subscribe to the adage;
Don't judge a book by its cover.

Same here. Even when the book chooses its cover.

I don't outright dismiss people based on an avatar, but I do keep in mind that we're talking about a conscious choice of how someone wishes to represent themselvs to a group.

If they choose a genuinely vulgar or violent looking image, I have to question their intent. Doesn't mean I judge them as a person, of course, but it does make me wonder how seriously they take any of what they're doing in this particular environment.

For example, I saw an offer a while back with one of those ugly B&W cartoon trolls as the seller's avatar. Sure enough, the deal was as bogus as the graphic.

I don't object to non-photo avatars. I do find the wisdom of some of them to be questionable if you're selling, though.

I mean, seriously... a troll?

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Paul Myers 11 years ago

Robert,

Is that a real Life Caricature in your Avator?

In my best Paul Hogan voice...

"That's not a caricature. THIS is a caricature."
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- kenmichaels 11 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Paul Myers
  
  Robert,In my best Paul Hogan voice...
  
  "That's not a caricature. THIS is a caricature."
  
  Is it a bad thing when your caricature looks better then your photo?
  
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  Is it a bad thing when your caricature looks better then your photo?
  
  Not really.
  
  It's not a great photo, but it's reasonably current. That makes it unique.
  
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  Originally Posted by Paul Myers
  
  Robert,In my best Paul Hogan voice...
  
  "That's not a caricature. THIS is a caricature."
  
  Look a little bit like Harrison Ford in Raiders of Lost Ark with a beard and mustache
  
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Electrical

10 years ago

Originally Posted by Paul Myers

I get what the guy is saying. I've seen some avatars that would be more appropriate for an anti-social teenager on an MMORPG forum than for a merchant selling to other businesspeople.

Doesn't exactly inspire me to buy from them. Or even take their comments seriously.

I assume you put up the "Zombie Response Team" avatar some time after making this post?

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sbucciarel

Banned 11 years ago

Originally Posted by Toby Henderson

Make Your Marketing message CONSISTENT by not having weird Images as your avatar its annoying and a waste of your time. Do yourself another favor if you are not mentally ready for a deal go to the beach then comeback when you are ready to upload an avatar that is more respectable... ENd rAnT

How about this .... you do what works for you and the rest of us will do the same. :p

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bizgrower

11 years ago

Privacy understood:

Blogger Mom Shocked to Find Her Photo on Porn Site - ABC News

I deleted the hotlink because I did not want to add to the invasion of her
privacy. She blogs about home type stuff. Some overseas hookup website
posted her image and contact info on their site to make people think they
could hook up with her. She got all kinds yucky contacts. The site wanted $400
to remove her info.

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Hopeless Bromantic

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Toby Henderson

Yes my nose is the size of Texas

We all have our anatomical problems, dude.

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Originally Posted by Hopeless Bromantic

We all have our anatomical problems, dude.

^^^^^
You have big feet
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11 years ago

Originally Posted by Toby Henderson

So yes I have been here since 2010 and yes I am just starting to post more and I noticed something...

Lately here on the warrior forum I have seen the most CREEPY looking avatars on the PLANET EARTH...

Yes my nose is the size of Texas but guess what I really dont care because some of these clowns are selling deals and they have the frigging creepyest cartoon avatars you have ever seen...

This guy might have you beat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KkOQds1Thk

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evilclown

11 years ago

<< creepy one but my nickname is creepy too.

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OnlineSpaceGames

10 years ago

Whats up with this complain

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Rick Rodd 10 years ago

Originally Posted by OnlineSpaceGames

Whats up with this complain

Said the guy with a meme as an avatar. If I take of my mask, it would be an abomination to anyone who sees my real face.
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Dennis Gaskill 10 years ago

Originally Posted by OnlineSpaceGames

Whats up with this complain

Uh . . . why didn't you ask that six months ago when the thread was first posted?
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10 years ago

Speaking of creepy avatars:

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10 years ago

Originally Posted by Claude Whitacre

To the OP....

:confused::confused:

"sniff" "sniff"...I really look like that.

Cry, sniff, all that work, slaving away to all hours of the morning!

Having to ditch my Youtube fluffy bunny warm and fuzzy videos, to do your own custom made Avatar images!

No excuses Claude! Baaaaaaa.....

Originally Posted by Richard Van

Um, I didn't actually say you weren't about in the 1974.

I just said I wasn't.

You certainly are brillaint though and I'm sure you smell much nicer than well travelled sage.

Geesh, after all that talk about whether Vikings should be allowed to have a bender with Viking hats on?

Or go on a mass, murder spree of Great Britain, whichever comes first!

Disclaimer - l have an Irish background, so l can say the above without any Psychotic, Vikings knocking down my door; well the rabid, frenzied Rabbit out front, on a sailing ship anchor chain, helps!

Originally Posted by Kurt

Speaking of creepy avatars:

Yep, 8 out of 10 for creepiness!

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whateverpedia

10 years ago

I just reported the above post to the mods because... obvious reasons.

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George Wright

10 years ago

Originally Posted by Toby Henderson

Please do yourself and my eyes a favor... Just use your own image.

If you use your own image then it's not an avatar.

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bizgrower

10 years ago

Six month old thread.

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OnlineSpaceGames

10 years ago

Well, I just joined this forum

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Dennis Gaskill 10 years ago

Originally Posted by OnlineSpaceGames

Well, I just joined this forum

I know . . . my post was a hint that you should check the dates before you post. General forum etiquette is that you don't resurrect old threads unless you have something useful to add.

Welcome to the forum.
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Richard Van

10 years ago

Originally Posted by OnlineSpaceGames

Well, I just joined this forum

I think that's what he meant. The complaint was from six months ago and you asked what's up with it. Well, nothing's up with it as the thread vanished six months ago.

Just a hint too and I'm not being a grammar cop at all and just trying to help but the first word on your website that welcomes people is spelt wrong. I thought you may want to change that. Seriously though, that genuinely was to try and help.

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OnlineSpaceGames

10 years ago

Originally Posted by Dennis Gaskill

I know . . . my post was a hint that you should check the dates before you post. General forum etiquette is that you don't resurrect old threads unless you have something useful to add.

Welcome to the forum.

Understood and thanks

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Originally Posted by Richard Van

Just a hint too and I'm not being a grammar cop at all and just trying to help but the first word on your website that welcomes people is spelt wrong. I thought you may want to change that. Seriously though, that genuinely was to try and help.

Thanks for the heads up, didn't notice that, my misspelling

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Richard Van 10 years ago

Originally Posted by OnlineSpaceGames

Thanks for the heads up, didn't notice that, my misspelling

No worries. Sorry if it came across like a grammar cop. It was just the first word I saw so thought it would help to fix it. Believe me I make plenty of spelling errors too.
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Rick Rodd

10 years ago

Welcome to Warrior Forum, OnlineSpaceGames

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