Acceptable Avatars for the Forums

[kristoff]

We've recently been having some back room discussions regarding the avatars (ID photos on the forums) folks are using. For some time we have been using a policy that if the photo or cartoon (whatever) is not suitable for showing in a public office, it is not suitable for the forums. I have made a couple of exceptions simply because they and their pics were here before the implementation of the policy. We, in our discussions, have come to the conclusion that even the old avatars need to go, and those folks are being asked to change them. Some have already. Replacement photos of minors need to be of the person posting it at all times. More exotic, erotic, or raunchy photos need to be confined to the personals section, and appropriately marked as "adult," if needed.

[eunuch2001 (imported)]

Dear Kristoff

I do hope you will retain "Nuke a Gay Baby Whale for Jesus". It always brightens my day.

All good wishes

[JesusA]

I do hope you will retain "Nuke a Gay Baby Whale for Jesus". It always brightens my day.

I think that Kristoff's signature is perfectly acceptable, but only so long as you realize he's not talking about THIS Jesus. Whale can be delicious. I've eaten it on more than one occasion. But, I prefer whale watching to whale eating, and I'd certainly never want to nuke one. I prefer them raw (with a little soy sauce and grated ginger) to microwaved....

(Horsemeat is also best thinly sliced and raw with grated ginger, though I had some nice roasts when I was a graduate student and horse was far cheaper than beef. The Japanese for raw horsemeat is "sakura-niku," which translates as 'cherry blossom meat.' It does have a faint floral odor.)

[DavidB (imported)]

I never posted an avatar and I have no idea how to put one up, can someone point me in the right direction.

thanks

Dave

[C&TL2745 (imported)]

I never posted an avatar and I have no idea how to put one up, can someone point me in the right direction.

thanks

Dave

I was wondering about that myself and finally got brave enough to bluff my way through it.

At the top of the page, you should see a "button" named "Settings". Click on that. It takes you to a page showing various things about your account. On the left, find a link named "Edit Avatar". Click on that. If you have a Web-compatible image on your computer that you want to use, click on the Browse button under "Option 2" to locate the image to upload. You also have the option to grab one from another Web site or select "Do not use an avatar". If you want to change your avatar, you can simply go through the same process you used to get the initial one activated.

Sandi

[DavidB (imported)]

I was wondering about that myself and finally got brave enough to bluff my way through it.

At the top of the page, you should see a "button" named "Settings". Click on that. It takes you to a page showing various things about your account. On the left, find a link named "Edit Avatar". Click on that. If you have a Web-compatible image on your computer that you want to use, click on the Browse button under "Option 2" to locate the image to upload. You also have the option to grab one from another Web site or select "Do not use an avatar". If you want to change your avatar, you can simply go through the same process you used to get the initial one activated.

Sandi

Thanks Sandi

[kristoff]

I never posted an avatar and I have no idea how to put one up, can someone point me in the right direction.

thanks

Dave

You have one of, presumably, yourself in a green shirt. I expect you probably followed Sandi's advice on how to load one.

[gunnutz (imported)]

I was wondering about that myself and finally got brave enough to bluff my way through it.

At the top of the page, you should see a "button" named "Settings". Click on that. It takes you to a page showing various things about your account. On the left, find a link named "Edit Avatar". Click on that. If you have a Web-compatible image on your computer that you want to use, click on the Browse button under "Option 2" to locate the image to upload. You also have the option to grab one from another Web site or select "Do not use an avatar". If you want to change your avatar, you can simply go through the same process you used to get the initial one activated.

Sandi

Thanks, now i finally have an avatar!

[punkypink (imported)]

Thanks, now i finally have an avatar!

Wow is that from Warhammer or something? I like that suit of armour and the shield.

[gunnutz (imported)]

Wow is that from Warhammer or something? I like that suit of armour and the shield.

Honestly I haven't a clue where it is from, I've had it on my computer a long time.

[moi621 (imported)]

Thank you Kristoff & all for keeping this Board safe.

Moi

[transward (imported)]

I'm going to miss Bobover's old Avatar, sort of a she-male (I know it's unPC, but that was no transsexual icon, that was difinatly a SheMale) update of antique Japanese pillow book drawings. Similar perspective and humor.

Dear Kristoff

I do hope you will retain "Nuke a Gay Baby Whale for Jesus". It always brightens my day.

All good wishes

I'm curious; I understand the line was originally a bumper sticker. Is it from a longer piece? At a demonstration once (Fred Phelps perhaps?) I heard the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence singing, to the tune of "On Wisconsin" "Nuke a gay whale for Jesus / Stomp on a Queer for the Lord / Kill a commie for Christ's sake / Remember that assholes are God's chosen race." Wondered if

they made it up or if the original was from a longer piece.

(Horsemeat is also best thinly sliced and raw with grated ginger, though I had some nice roasts when I was a graduate student and horse was far cheaper than beef. The Japanese for raw horsemeat is "sakura-niku," which translates as

'cherry blossom meat.' It does have a faint floral odor.)

While in grad school in Portland I lived on horsemeat. Wonderful stuff. If I could get it I would eat in preference to most beef, My friends wondered how I ate rib steaks and eggs for breakfast and Fillet roast for dinner on a starving grad school budget. Rich meaty flavor but much leaner than beef. Had to bard the meat, poke long holes in the roast and poke bacon strips and garlic cloves into the holes and drape the roast with strips of bacon to lubricate the meat. I was devistated when they banned the slaughter of horses for meat in the US.

Transward

[ampnullolvr (imported)]

Just curious- I used to have a avatar that I guess would fit the inappropriate avatar criteria, but I did not remove it. Are the moderaterators removing them or requesting the the individual members remove them? Mine was there 1 day and gone the next so was just wondering.

[fhunter]

I surely miss Mac's and A-1's avatars...

[erikboy (imported)]

Perhaps we should move one part of EA to dark internet like onionland at Tor network or I2P network? No selfcensorship or restrictions there. TheFraj knows more about that as he himself has written an article about it.

I2P - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I2P

Tor - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(anonymity_network)

[punkypink (imported)]

I surely miss Mac's and A-1's avatars...

Actually, I'm interested in yours. Are those MiGs of some sort in the background???

[kristoff]

The line "Nuke a Gay Baby Whale for Jesus" was retrieved from a bumper sticker on a junky VW rabbit. I suspect it was covering a bad rust patch. It is good to know what the other sisters were singing. I'll adopt it in full for future use. It will stay.

Aside from a number of remarks over offensiveness about select avatars, many people have commented about the fact that they frequently inhabit the Archive while at work. We want to accomodate the need to not worry as much about pics being seen. OTOH, if you are viewing the personals at work, do so at your own risk; and remember, many companies review internet useage. A big reason we are extending this beyond our past practices, we have been inviting a lot of academics to read and research us. Many were met and reached out to at the WPATH conference held in Atlanta recently, where we drew quite a crowd to our panel on M-to-E and BIID. We want to draw in and keep these people in our camp, since many of them can influence the acceptance of M2E and BIID, recommending surgeries, etc. We're still working with a number of them to get eunuchism specifically mentioned in the supplements and indexes of the SOC 7.0. So there you have it.

BTW, I really like A-1's new avatar. Very creative.

[fhunter]

Actually, I'm interested in yours. Are those MiGs of some sort in the background???

Yes, at least one MiG. The photo was taken at Monino Air Force museum, near Moscow.

http://g.co/maps/erwv2 - here.

[punkypink (imported)]

Yes, at least one MiG. The photo was taken at Monino Air Force museum, near Moscow.

http://g.co/maps/erwv2 - here.

That's very very cool. I'm now trying to find out what MiG it is. You got a clearer or bigger version of that picture?

[fhunter]

That's very very cool. I'm now trying to find out what MiG it is. You got a clearer or bigger version of that picture?

I got on wikimapia and identified both of them:

The left one:

MiG-17 (http://wikimapia.org/14023197/ru/%D0%A4 ... B2%D0%BE%D 0%B9-%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B1%D0%B8%D1%82%D 0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C-%D0%9C%D0%B8%D0%93-17).

The right one:

MiG-15UTI, two seat trainer (http://wikimapia.org/14023181/ru/%D0%A3 ... BE%D0%B2%D 0%BE%D1%87%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9-%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B1%D0%B8%D1%82%D 0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C-%D0%9C%D0%B8%D0%93-15%D0%A3%D0%A2%D0%98).

Photo lies somewhere in the depths of my hard disk drive, if you still need it, I can find it.

[punkypink (imported)]

I got on wikimapia and identified both of them:

The left one:

MiG-17 (http://wikimapia.org/14023197/ru/%D0%A4 ... B2%D0%BE%D 0%B9-%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B1%D0%B8%D1%82%D 0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C-%D0%9C%D0%B8%D0%93-17).

The right one:

MiG-15UTI, two seat trainer (http://wikimapia.org/14023181/ru/%D0%A3 ... BE%D0%B2%D 0%BE%D1%87%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9-%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B1%D0%B8%D1%82%D 0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C-%D0%9C%D0%B8%D0%93-15%D0%A3%D0%A2%D0%98).

Photo lies somewhere in the depths of my hard disk drive, if you still need it, I can find it.

Ah thank you so much. The 2 seater was confusing me. I wanted to satisfy my curiousity, but now that it's been satisfied I don't think I ought trouble you to go on a digital archaeological exploration of your HD drive

[janekane (imported)]

When I decided it was time to add an avatar to my Archive presence, and recognizing it being wise for me to avoid any sort of copyright infringement, I put an abstract acrylic painting I made long ago on a scanner, trimmed the scan to a small portion of the scanned portion of the painting, and used that small portion as my avatar.

Being abstract, I am willing to allow that it may mean anything to anyone; however, in my mind, it is, and is only, an abstract representation of an aspect of genuine decency. The painting, as a whole is of an abstract impression of the inner structure of the singularity of existence prior to the purported "big bang"; it is an impression of what banged, if anything did.

Perchance, is the "law of non-contradiction" (something cannot be what it isn't) the limit boundary of what may exist within a dimensionless singularity?

I do surely hope that my avatar is not inappropriate.

[punkypink (imported)]

Janekane's rather reminds me of the French Air Force roundel.

[loveableleopardy (imported)]

I always saw Janekane's as an eye, not that the line below it really fits in to that.

As for mine, I just hope that it still remains acceptable, given that I am you know...naked

[punkypink (imported)]

Actually now that you've mentioned an eye, the line does fit. Here's how:

http://a2.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos- ... 81_1264721 123_n.jpg