Avatars

Published on May 17, 2005 By KarmaGirl In Blogging

A few people have figured out that you can go to www.wincustomize.com and create an avatar that will show up on this site. It is actually a code bug that the programmers have left. If it is abused, it will go away, however.

With that, I need to remind people that you are actually uploading to wincustomize. With that, you are doing so under the terms of Wincustomize. One of the terms of use states: "(a) upload, post or otherwise transmit any Content that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortuous, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, pornographic, libelous, invasive of another's privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable;". It also states: "Stardock and its designees shall have the right to remove any Content that violates the TOS or is otherwise objectionable."

Avatars are moderated by Wincustomize. If you use an avatar that could be considered "hateful", Wincustomize moderators and admins have the right to request its removal or remove it. If you abuse the avatars, you will be banned from Wincustomize and will no longer have access to it. Wincustomize has high standard of conduct (much higher than JU), so please keep that in mind when uploading an avatar.

Comments (Page 1)

Dynosoar

on May 17, 2005

Dr Guy

on May 17, 2005

Thanks for the Tip!

KarmaGirl

on May 17, 2005

So many of those things are subjective though...for instance, the current flap over one JUsers use of the Confederate Flag. A few find that racially hateful--does that mean it's not an acceptable choice?

Ultimately, it will be a moderator/admin call. This post is more of a warning that the avatars will be subjected to WC standards as they are actually coming from that site. If you want to use an avatar, you have to play by the rules of WC. On WC, we keep a fairly high standard of conduct, and it is a "family" site. I just don't want anyone wining about "free speech" if they get their avatar pulled.

Danny Bassette

on May 17, 2005

When your right your right, the files are on a stardock server, and therefore bound by any and all rules/regulations/random impulses that stardock (and their employees) see fit to act upon. That your nice enough to let us play here for free says alot, go you and such. But when your wrong your wrong, it's icon, not avatar.
Avatars are fill ins for you. Think of your character in a game for example (or in Ultima you were even named Avatar). They are not in fact you, but they might as well be as far as things are concerned. But an icon is a pretty little picture. It might look like someone, it might represent them in certain situations, but it isn't them and it's only purpose is to be a pretty picture.
Ok, that's enough taunting of the scary admin for today

Gene Nash

on May 17, 2005

Ok, that's enough taunting of the scary admin for today

Ban him! Ban him! Ban him!

KarmaGirl

on May 17, 2005

But when your wrong your wrong, it's icon, not avatar.

As I explained to poor misguided Danny on IRC, an Avatar is defined in technical terms as: "Among people working on virtual reality and cyberspace interfaces, an avatar is an icon or representation of a user in a shared virtual reality." So, the "icon" that people use to represent themselves is an "avatar".

I will spare you the wrath of Karma this time...........

Moderateman

on May 17, 2005

ok How do I get an atavar? spell it out please, slowly, step by step..

sincerly, elie

House of the computer challenged.

Dr Guy

on May 17, 2005

Ban him! Ban him! Ban him!

Noooooo!!!! Not Danny! WHo will then help us with our questions?

p.s. Danny, An avatar is now also considered what you call an Icon. Check out Dictionary.com

Dr Guy

on May 17, 2005

I will spare you the wrath of Karma this time...........

Bless you! He is young and foolish, but smart. And about 9 for 10 now!

Danny Bassette

on May 18, 2005

Moderateman: Find a picture/graphic you want to use (can't be bigger then 50x50, use some of the others seen in the forums for examples). Then go to wincustomize and the my account tab for the update images section (or use this link, which won't look right in the forum, where the icons are visible, go figure). Once there note the personal icon section, click browse and find the file on your computer. The directy/file name will then fill the box. Click upload at the bottom and you should be all set.

KarmaGirl

on May 18, 2005

gifs wont work, but I wish they would

We don't allow gifs because we don't allow animations. It's not possible to identify an animated gif from a static gif, so we only allow jpegs

Dr Guy

on May 18, 2005

Im sure theres a way to change a gif to a jpeg, but im graphically challenged.

There is. Open it with Microsoft Paint, and then do a Save as. One of the choices is JPG.

Danny Bassette

on May 18, 2005

You can try that. What's the worse that can happen, it doesn't work and you try again?

Dr Guy

on May 18, 2005

That would be easy if I had Microsoft Paint. Can I just change the file extension?

if you have Windows, circa 98 or later, you have Paint.

But no, on your question. Check out Accessories. Every version of Windows since 98 (might be 95) has paint. it is in the Accessories menu.

Moderateman

on May 18, 2005

this is just driving me nuts, I hate being so stupid

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