Advertising Avatars???!

[confus-ed]

Now I understand this sense of identity thing for avatars but advertising with them????

See

<a href="http://forums.windrivers.com/cgi-bin/forum3/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=41&t=000152#000004" target="_blank">http://forums.windrivers.com/cgi-bin/forum3/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=41&t=000152#000004</a>

Free adverts for anyone too tight to pay for a banner??

This is just more encouragement for the damned post counters.

Come on then lets hear it.....

[WinDrivers1]

Angelfire isn't allowing the image to be posted on another site or the image is no longer available. I doubt he's advertising for AngelFire.

[confus-ed]

I don't want to quibble oh 'god', but he's still at it, & how come he's got a custom avatar? (I've just been shot down for saying all users ought to be able to do this, apparently the rule is 200 posts!).

Common now look at all the flak spammers get advertising their sites, you are helping this guy!

[Cobra]

I don't know how the hell he would have gotten Scott to host the avatar. Check the properties on the image, it's a different pic, on AngleFire's servers. All custom avatars are hosted on the WinDrivers Forums server.

Still, I'd like to know how it's possible, as no can set their own avatar in their profile...

[MacGyver]

The answer is that the custom avatar hack uses the field for "your picture" in your user profile (for displaying a picture of yourself in your profile screen) to store the avatar location. If there is something already there when the avatar hack is installed, then that gets used as your custom avatar. That's not by design, that's just the way it happens.

When you select a new avatar, the old one is overwritten. This actually happened to me when Scott installed the last avatar hack - my picture from my personal site became my avatar. Then when Scott restored a backup of the old avatars shortly thereafter, I went back to my old knife.

So in reality, the person with this advertising avatar didn't do anything wrong. He was just trying to display his picture in his profile.

[kingtbone]

[quote]Originally posted by confus-ed:
<strong>apparently the rule is 200 posts!</strong><hr></blockquote>

I think that is a rellic of the old versions isn't it?

[MacGyver]

the 200 post rule was to prevent every new user asking to get an avatar (since Scott had to do it manually) and he has enough to do already.

[confus-ed]

Okay MacGuyver says this has happened due to a technical fault(sigh!) so can somebody fix it, please?

If it was a link to another technical site then it would have gone quick smart, wouldn't it?

I'm sure the user just wants his own avatar(whether I like 'em or not!).

[Cobra]

Oh yeah....I quickly I forgot my ugly mug was used as my avatar when Scott first re-enabled the hack...

[thirdfey]

[quote]Originally posted by confus-ed:
<strong>Okay MacGuyver says this has happened due to a technical fault(sigh!) so can somebody fix it, please?

</strong><hr></blockquote>

Contact Angelfire's tech support.