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Lore Member	posted May 31, 2007 04:55 PM Any chance of this site finally giving us the options of uploading them? It would be pretty sweet and a nice improvement, you know, with all that money from The Stack. __________________ "Who do I trust? I trust me." [Edited 2 times, lastly by Lore on June 01, 2007]
ndizzle06 Member	posted May 31, 2007 04:57 PM quote: Originally posted by Lore: Any chance of this site finally giving us the options of uploading them? It would be pretty sweet and a nice improvement, you know, with all that money from The Stack. i completely agree.
nderdog Moderator	posted May 31, 2007 05:02 PM It's been brought up before and they're unlikely to ever be implemented. There are issues with where they're stored. If they're just links to someone's own storage space there are the same issues in play as why only Mods are allowed to embed images. If they're stored on the server they become added bandwidth that Leshrac has to pay for. MOTL has always had a nice clean professional look, and Avatars would detract from that. There are plenty of other places for it, it's not needed here. __________________ There's no need to fear, UNDERDOG is here! All your Gruul Nodorogs are belong to me. Trade them to me, please! Report rules violations.
Lore Member	posted May 31, 2007 05:09 PM I will give you that for sure, MOTL does have a very clean look to it, one of the best I've seen. But still, Magic is about creativity and imagination, would be cool to extend that onto here. I just would love to see MOTL grow so much larger. I see a lot of the same names over and notice a lot of newbies that never stick around. Anything to draw in and, more importantly, keep new members is a plus in my book. __________________ "Who do I trust? I trust me."
nderdog Moderator	posted May 31, 2007 05:32 PM quote: Originally posted by Lore: I will give you that for sure, MOTL does have a very clean look to it, one of the best I've seen. But still, Magic is about creativity and imagination, would be cool to extend that onto here. I just would love to see MOTL grow so much larger. I see a lot of the same names over and notice a lot of newbies that never stick around. Anything to draw in and, more importantly, keep new members is a plus in my book. I fail to see how making the site uglier would keep people around. I have yet to stay for very long on any site at all that has avatars, partly because of the childish feel. Slower load times and more clutter are bad times. __________________ There's no need to fear, UNDERDOG is here! All your Gruul Nodorogs are belong to me. Trade them to me, please! Report rules violations.
Goaswerfraiejen Member	posted May 31, 2007 05:36 PM quote: Originally posted by nderdog: I fail to see how making the site uglier would keep people around. I have yet to stay for very long on any site at all that has avatars, partly because of the childish feel. Slower load times and more clutter are bad times. I wholeheartedly agree. MOTL's appearance is refreshing. We're so bombarded with images in the outside world that it's nice to take refuge somewhere for a little while. Besides, you'd all be too intimidated by my beauty to tear your eyes away from the computer screen. __________________ "I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think they will sing to me." -T.S. Eliot "Between that promise and the reality, there is an ocean. That ocean is called the Liberal Party." (Duceppe) Glitch-Banned/Unbanned 18/03/06 RIP Ari Save Stargate!
BoltBait Moderator	posted May 31, 2007 05:47 PM Just like Magic itself--its the words that matter, not the images. Not... gonna... happen. __________________ If you see a rules violation, PM me a link and I will take care of it. Thanks. * 2004-2006 MOTL Proton award winner. [Trades] [Rules] [FAQ] [Prices] [Card Searches] [Tools] [WotC] [Dominoes] [Art] [Writings] [#MOTL Chat] [Logout]
Akarius Member	posted May 31, 2007 07:27 PM quote: Originally posted by Goaswerfraiejen: We're so bombarded with images in the outside world that it's nice to take refuge somewhere for a little while. Agree...one of the reason why I choose motl is it's clean forums. I hate when one forum's page has millions of animated gifs and big flashy sig...it's annoying. Keep motl clean
Tha Gunslinga Moderator	posted May 31, 2007 08:28 PM As someone who has avatars disabled or blocked at every forum I read, I'm glad MOTL doesn't have them. __________________ Team ICBM Hate advertising? Get Firefox, then pick up Flashblock and Adblock
Lore Member	posted May 31, 2007 08:32 PM Well I guess all that money will put to better use elsewhere... right? (Haha) __________________ "Who do I trust? I trust me." [Edited 1 times, lastly by Tha Gunslinga on June 01, 2007]
Bagbokk Member	posted May 31, 2007 08:48 PM (1) Servers aren't free and they aren't a one-time payment either. At least I know my site costs money every half year or so to maintain and it sees maybe a millionth of the traffic this does. (2) New people do join up MoTL quite often. The only thing is that they have little to no interest in sticking around General Discussion or sometimes even Magic Discussion forums. The biggest thing on this site is trading and you see a whole ton of names in the H/W list section of the forums that you never see in GD.
CPTBOBIX Member	posted May 31, 2007 09:11 PM quote: Originally posted by Lore: Well I guess all that money will put to better use elsewhere... right? (Haha) Gee, like server costs maybe... What possible benefit could avatars bring to the site? Last I checked, wasting bandwith wasn't a plus. Also, you aren't actually saving Leshrac any money by using the small font. In fact, you are killing kittens by doing so.
ronandaggy Member	posted June 01, 2007 05:29 AM i agree with the clean look. more proffesional look than any other trading site out there. it is rather refreshing. only reason i use one on wotc is because its a custome one of a leafs logo __________________ your ubb survivor 10 champion!! Also the recipient of the invisibility and morality awards. 100% win ratio in ubb mafia wotc marketplace council member, 3 terms and counting Originally posted by CPTBOBIX: Go Leafs Go!!, I Love Canada!!!
davef139 Member	posted June 01, 2007 06:42 AM quote: Originally posted by CPTBOBIX: Gee, like server costs maybe... What possible benefit could avatars bring to the site? Last I checked, wasting bandwith wasn't a plus. Also, you aren't actually saving Leshrac any money by using the small font. In fact, you are killing kittens by doing so. That gets to be an old excuse, im sure this site pay for itself if not more with the traffic it sees. I dont think th server has ever been upgraded the copyright on the forum is 2000, I know people who do installing of phpbb/vB and they wount even touch somthign this old not to mention infopop got renamed and such. Bandwidth is generally only increased on the client side for avatars.
nderdog Moderator	posted June 01, 2007 07:22 AM quote: Originally posted by davef139: That gets to be an old excuse, im sure this site pay for itself if not more with the traffic it sees. I dont think th server has ever been upgraded the copyright on the forum is 2000, I know people who do installing of phpbb/vB and they wount even touch somthign this old not to mention infopop got renamed and such. Bandwidth is generally only increased on the client side for avatars. I'd love to see your figures for how you think MOTL pays for itself. There's no way. As has been stated, there are 2 ways of doing avatars, and the only one that stands a remote chance of getting implemented are ones stored on MOTL servers so there's control to keep people from doing very bad things with them, and that does make the bandwidth server-side. __________________ There's no need to fear, UNDERDOG is here! All your Gruul Nodorogs are belong to me. Trade them to me, please! Report rules violations.
iccarus Member	posted June 01, 2007 11:45 AM I share the opinion of just about everybody else in this thread, they aren't needed. Avatars just add another aspect to the site that mods have to watch after. I can just see somebody sneaking a nasty little picture. It's nice that some forums offer them, but I really get annoyed having to scroll through all of the pictures or looking at those large banner sigs so many people have on sites like mtgsalvation. __________________ Get "it" now Wisconsin - smells like dairy air!
k illig Member	posted June 01, 2007 06:05 PM Completely unneccessary. __________________ "I command you, restore my ass to it's former glory!"
Kluckers Member	posted June 09, 2007 05:41 PM I've been hanging out on a gaming forum with signatures, avatars and youtubes embeds and I like coming back to the peacefulness of MOTL. On the other site a lot of pictures were of half naked women, because a lot of teenage boys frequent the site. Avatars of breasts etc.
Shadow88 Member	posted June 20, 2007 06:23 PM I would settle for a more circular smiley. [Edited 1 times, lastly by Shadow88 on June 20, 2007]
Our_Benefactors Member	posted June 20, 2007 07:52 PM quote: Originally posted by Shadow88: I would settle for a more circular smiley. That's a good start, but I also want Bolty's devil smiley.

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