Personal Avatar Notice
 

To all Cigar Asylum Members,

It has come to our attention that there are a few members with avatar pictures that are not entirely appropriate here.
The Team of 11 would like to ask you to please review your current avatar (the picture under your name that shows on every post you make) and change it if you:

would not be comfortable with your girlfriend/wife/mother seeing it on your name here.

would not like your employer or superior to see it if they walked in on you.

would not like us to choose one for you that would be more appropriate.

Your profile picture (the one seen if looking at your personal profile) is not the one we are referring to. Those can only been seen if looking at a specific persons profile. Those are not the issue here.

I personally had a female client walk into my cubicle yesterday afternoon and it was just bad timing. I had a thread open, and a member had a avatar that drew her attention and I was questioned about it.

I do not wish to be put in that position again, nor would I want anyone else here to share that pain. So, in advance we ask our membership to please be thoughtful of others when selecting an avatar for yourself. It shows on every post you make here and can be seen by everyone.

We will give folks a few days to do this. In the end if we review your avatar and find it not appropriate, it will be changed for you and it is entirely possible that you will no longer be able to upload your own, but be only able to use one of the default avatars as a result.
Members have till Monday (11/10) morning to change them.


In advance we thank you for your understanding in this matter.



The Team of 11

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Sorry if it's my Hippo again Poker. It always seams to get me into trouble.



If it helps, the next time you can tell her it's a free range Hippo. :D




:r:dance::r

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I hope it's not my Samuel Jackson Beer avatar!:salute::lv

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Well put, when I am reviewing the site in the privacy of my own home I really don't care what's on the screen but a lot of times I can only catch a moment or two of viewing time when I am in public and can not afford to be put in the same position that you were.
Total support from this CA member:tu

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Not to make light of your very sensible post (seriously - I'm at work when I'm on here so I completely agree).....but I am sorry that you were propositioned like that.

Kelly - I'm sorry my one-eyed monster didn't have any clothes on him.

OOOOOOOFAAAA.

;)

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And.....

Remember in the User CP you can always:

Turn off avatar display
Turn off signature bar line display
Turn off the inline display of all pics and making them clickable links.

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Good tip for those of you at work veiwing!:tu

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If my avatar offends anyone.... well, um, Hey what's that up in the sky? :D

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i think the only thing that would make some people mad about your avatar dave, is that its the truth about most of us. we cant stay off of CA:D

is my cat standing in a pile of cigar bands cool:rolleyes:

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I hate to take down my Marine Corps flag. Can I keep it up until after November 10 (USMC Birthday)?:ss

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A prime example of the ones we are referring to (yes, we know most of you are joking. we're not THAT old) is like on the first page of the M's in our member list.

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Your avatar has their pants around their ankles.

In the sky??? Where. I don't see..........."OUCH"

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Just because Fred changed to a pipe!? :lv

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Strange - worst thing I saw on that page was four pillows :D

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I understand now, the muzzle of the gun and the VT and Nebraska avatars were a little over the top.:ss

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The Team of 11 has now agreed to make all smartass's have Hello Kitty avatars. Changes will take effect within the hour.:D

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Jordan will finally feel at home :)

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I made progress today. My wife calls me dumbass.:dance:

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Puuuuuuurfect!

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Lets lay this out in plain english...

No boobies for avatars. :D

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Or other various "body parts"? ;)

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Come on mods, please let this brother keep the flag of my SISTER Service up for a while longer! :r

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Hope I'm not overstepping bounds, but I'm of the opinion that if the mod staff has an issue with a particular avatar, it should be taken up with that inmate, rather than to address the masses.

It may also be a good idea to post something in the site rules about what will be considered acceptable and what will not.

Another option here, that may take some major programming to implement, is to have the avatars all be processed through the system and approved by one of the mods prior to acceptance.

Just my opinion FWIW.

Respectfully,
Michael

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Do Al first, PLEASE!!! hehehe

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its a new policy or heads up intended for all to follow.

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Thanks Michael.

We have usually always left options like avatars up to the members to decide what is appropriate and not appropriate in the past. We feel that most everyone here is an adult and can think for themselves. We would prefer to allow the members to decide first.

97% or so of the members here are familiar with how we ran other boards, and pretty much know the ground rules have not changed here.
The other 3% or so of the members we hope would read the stickies. This way it does not appear to be a targeted rule to the few in violation, but rather a general policy for everyone. This way nobody feels singled out per say.


The other suggestion of avatar processing would be too much work to be honest.

We have talked about this for some time behind closed doors and never said anything until now.

Trust me, nothing much is done here on an administrative level without plenty of dialog and feedback with the staff.

There is a definite plan in place on how this will be done.

Your feedback is appreciated though.

Thank you

Kelly

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Kelly,

Thanks very much for the detailed and articulate reply! My you all succeed in your endeavor.

Respectfully,
Michael

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Can someone please tell me about the Avatar requirements rather than rules?

As in, what needs to be done in order to upload a working GIF file for animation? I see members have this working, but for some reason I can't get my gif avatar that works on all my other forums to work here. Is there some specific requirement that I'm missing?


Thanks for the help in advance!

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PM Blak Smyth. He's been the one making peoples avatars

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That has absolutely nothing to do with what he asked. :confused:

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The maximum size of your custom image is 100 by 100 pixels or 146.5 KB (whichever is smaller).
It looks like you got it working, that is pretty awesome!

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Actually, I found out my answer. Most sites have a 120x120 policy, here it's 100x100px. Got it handled! Thanks again ya'll!

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sure it does. Shane has been making many GIF avatars for people. It would stand to reason he would know exactly what neeeds to be done to upload a working GIF avatar...

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Take it to PMs please.
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Things were running late at lunch today... ate my salad and soup in under 5 minutes. :)

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Soup AND salad......fancy-shmancy.

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I see somebody enjoyed the creepiness of an avatar staring at you! ;)

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Poker, I agree 100%. I know I am new here and know this thread is old. But have been admin. & moderator of many forums. There is absolutely zero need for that. Even on a unmoderated forum that is a rule... Would your mother or boss like it?

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Who farted?