Custom Avatars possible or are hackers among us?

UltimaJoe777

I just saw a user on this forum with an avatar not listed in the selection we choose from. Did he hack his picture into his account or was he allowed a custom avatar? If he was, when do the rest of us get to use one?

Jimmy

It happened yesterday during maintenance. It was not intended.

Rohamad_Ali

I wanted this avatar but they would remove it

MasterSpatula

I find forums where everyone can have a unique avatar much easier to follow. I wish they'd allow it.

Totalitarian

I understand ZOS' reasoning behind not wanting custom avatars, because there are always those people who put up inappropriate images and the like, so it gets hard to monitor everyone's pictures.

But yesterday, during forum hiccup, you could set a custom avatar for a few minutes, but if you did, the forum mods reset your picture to the default one. They did say that if you did not get your avatar changed, it's because its not a big priority and there are no consequences unless it is inappropriate, and they'll change the custom avatar.

So, because of that, I got a free badge yesterday for changing my avatar.

UltimaJoe777

Totalitarian wrote: »

I understand ZOS' reasoning behind not wanting custom avatars, because there are always those people who put up inappropriate images and the like, so it gets hard to monitor everyone's pictures.

But yesterday, during forum hiccup, you could set a custom avatar for a few minutes, but if you did, the forum mods reset your picture to the default one. They did say that if you did not get your avatar changed, it's because its not a big priority and there are no consequences unless it is inappropriate, and they'll change the custom avatar.

So, because of that, I got a free badge yesterday for changing my avatar.

Well I think unless they start allowing it freely among forum users that everyone should get changed back from having a custom whether it's inappropriate or not as it is unfair to let people have a custom avatar when no one else can.

Rohamad_Ali

This is a most needed forums ability . The forums are at risk every day for inappropriate images yet the vast majority of Us respect the rules and try to avoid posting harmful materials .

rhapsodious

As long as the sick meme stays on my profile I don't mind sticking with my clannfear.

craybest

oh please allow custom avatars, many of us recognize eachother by it, and many forums have it. if it is inappropiate just report it and done.

Runs

MasterSpatula wrote: »

I find forums where everyone can have a unique avatar much easier to follow. I wish they'd allow it.

This...


Really wish they would add custom ones here. We obviously have enough forum mods, who would be able to remove any bad ones if they popped up. It's not like an ingame thing where there are no GMs that actively watch. Also with needing the invite code to make an account not sure many would intentionally do things forum bannable.

Pheefs

Runs wrote: »

Really wish they would add custom ones here. We obviously have enough forum mods, who would be able to remove any bad ones if they popped up.

& that's exactly what happened in the "long ago" time!
A slew of inappropriate pictures, lots of cuss words & closeups of certain body parts.
They ruined it for the rest of us & we got reduced to a list to choose from.

Totalitarian

UltimaJoe777 wrote: »

Well I think unless they start allowing it freely among forum users that everyone should get changed back from having a custom whether it's inappropriate or not as it is unfair to let people have a custom avatar when no one else can.

I wasn't clear with what I said.

Basically, if they see that someone has custom avatar, they're going to change it to default one. But they aren't necessarily going to witchhunt everyone who did it in a massive forum search, because, quite honestly, that is a lot of work.

I figure it is if the mods see you have a custom avatar, they'll change it back to default avatar with no repercussions (unless it is inappropriate), because it was simply a bug,


I dug up the official response.

ZOS_AlanG wrote: »

GreenSoup2HoT wrote: »

@ZOS_AlanG Will we get in trouble for custom avatars? Is changing your avatar considered an Exploit? I switched mine back to default.

We just set people back to the default, people won't get into trouble. It's certainly easier for us if people change it themselves.

People won't get into trouble unless the image was inappropriate. And we aren't going to put a lot of effort into sussing out these in the action page of their profile, but we'll likely remove those as we encounter them.

Hope that helps to clear it up.

UltimaJoe777

Totalitarian wrote: »

UltimaJoe777 wrote: »

Well I think unless they start allowing it freely among forum users that everyone should get changed back from having a custom whether it's inappropriate or not as it is unfair to let people have a custom avatar when no one else can.

I wasn't clear with what I said.

Basically, if they see that someone has custom avatar, they're going to change it to default one. But they aren't necessarily going to witchhunt everyone who did it in a massive forum search, because, quite honestly, that is a lot of work.

I figure it is if the mods see you have a custom avatar, they'll change it back to default avatar with no repercussions (unless it is inappropriate), because it was simply a bug,


I dug up the official response.

ZOS_AlanG wrote: »

GreenSoup2HoT wrote: »

@ZOS_AlanG Will we get in trouble for custom avatars? Is changing your avatar considered an Exploit? I switched mine back to default.

We just set people back to the default, people won't get into trouble. It's certainly easier for us if people change it themselves.

People won't get into trouble unless the image was inappropriate. And we aren't going to put a lot of effort into sussing out these in the action page of their profile, but we'll likely remove those as we encounter them.

Hope that helps to clear it up.

Well of course they won't hunt down everyone that did lol all they have to do is see people posting with a custom avatar and then set them to default. Of course, if they follow the feedback from this thread they may not have to...

Rosveen

Totalitarian wrote: »

I understand ZOS' reasoning behind not wanting custom avatars, because there are always those people who put up inappropriate images and the like, so it gets hard to monitor everyone's pictures.

And yet the forum allows unlimited images in posts even though they must be just as difficult to control as avatars.

TequilaFire

Mommy Dougy did a no no. sheesh!

Fingolfinn01

Every other mmo game allows custom avatars. If they were worried about inappropriate images, then why are can we upload pics?

Plz zos reconsider its much easier to remember posters with there own personal pic.

Cêltic421

UltimaJoe777 wrote: »

Totalitarian wrote: »

I understand ZOS' reasoning behind not wanting custom avatars, because there are always those people who put up inappropriate images and the like, so it gets hard to monitor everyone's pictures.

But yesterday, during forum hiccup, you could set a custom avatar for a few minutes, but if you did, the forum mods reset your picture to the default one. They did say that if you did not get your avatar changed, it's because its not a big priority and there are no consequences unless it is inappropriate, and they'll change the custom avatar.

So, because of that, I got a free badge yesterday for changing my avatar.

Well I think unless they start allowing it freely among forum users that everyone should get changed back from having a custom whether it's inappropriate or not as it is unfair to let people have a custom avatar when no one else can.

Lol because it's unfair. Well life isn't fair. Just worry about yourself and move on. It's just an avatar a a forum, do you really care that much? If so you should take a step back and reevaluate your life.

AzraelKrieg

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zaria

Rosveen wrote: »

Totalitarian wrote: »

I understand ZOS' reasoning behind not wanting custom avatars, because there are always those people who put up inappropriate images and the like, so it gets hard to monitor everyone's pictures.

And yet the forum allows unlimited images in posts even though they must be just as difficult to control as avatars.

This I can post any image in this tread but is stuck with the default avatar.

Ch4mpTW

Rohamad_Ali wrote: »

This is a most needed forums ability . The forums are at risk every day for inappropriate images yet the vast majority of Us respect the rules and try to avoid posting harmful materials .

@Rohamad_Ali I'm not going to lie... If custom avatars would be allowed, I'd have an avatar of my Breton MagPlar's rear. Then proceed with trying to change my forum name to: "MrLuvTheCakes".

Danikat

Fingolfinn01 wrote: »

Every other mmo game allows custom avatars. If they were worried about inappropriate images, then why are can we upload pics?

Plz zos reconsider its much easier to remember posters with there own personal pic.

My other MMO doesn't allow avatars at all. Apparently they hired an outside company to make their forum, they did a half-assed job and when it got to the end of the contract period they just left it in whatever state it was in. That was years ago and it's never been fixed.

So annoying as a lack of custom avatars are it could be worse.

onemoredragon

I actually enjoy default avatars - they all have the same aesthetics and art style. Forum would look less pleasant for me personally if everyone would be able to set their own weird pictures
Don't really care about recognizing people by their avatars, a unique name is enough.

Sakiri

Fingolfinn01 wrote: »

Every other mmo game allows custom avatars. If they were worried about inappropriate images, then why are can we upload pics?

Plz zos reconsider its much easier to remember posters with there own personal pic.

WoW uses a headshot of your currently selected character.

So no, not "every other" MMO.

Sakiri

Danikat wrote: »

Fingolfinn01 wrote: »

Every other mmo game allows custom avatars. If they were worried about inappropriate images, then why are can we upload pics?

Plz zos reconsider its much easier to remember posters with there own personal pic.

My other MMO doesn't allow avatars at all. Apparently they hired an outside company to make their forum, they did a half-assed job and when it got to the end of the contract period they just left it in whatever state it was in. That was years ago and it's never been fixed.

So annoying as a lack of custom avatars are it could be worse.

Which game? Sounds like something Daybreak would do.