In reply to DarkLightHitomi (msg # 11):
There are several of us around who were at RPoL before it had any portraits/avatars at all. When they were suggested, many people actually didn't want them for a variety of reasons.
In the end, after discussion, we decided that they would be nice in the games to help give characters more of a visual identity on the site, but that avatars intended for role-play would be inappropriate to public forums where we're not (in theory) role-playing/pretending to be other people. They don't add anything to the conversation, and could be seen as distracting.
I believe that it's worked well for us over the years and the site is not really missing out on anything by not allowing users to choose avatars for public forums. We've never really been on the "other sites do this so we should to, even if we can't find a good reason to do it" bandwagon.
Anyway, I'm very glad when our thought-out, discussed, and implemented policies can amuse a user so much. ;-)
In reply to Utsukushi (msg # 10):
Awww shucks -- you mean this one?
http://rpol.creativelass.net/ncm315.jpg
You know what they say: after 250, it's all about "moisturize and exercise"!
This message was last edited by the user at 15:25, Tue 03 June 2014.