Avatar Description / Explanation Field

MattyBoy · July 21, 2002, 20:31

Avatar Description / Explanation Field

When I see somebody's flag and think "what is that?" I just have to hold the cursor over it to see the name of the country.

Why not have the same thing with custom avatars? Each profile could include an editable field of up to 25 chars to provide a description.

alva · July 21, 2002, 22:20

not bad!, Not bad at all

Asher · July 21, 2002, 22:32

I love this idea also.

General Ludd · July 21, 2002, 22:42

Ming · July 21, 2002, 22:59

Considering all the crap some people put in their signatures and location fields... I have no interest in giving them another place to put more crap

Jon Shafer · July 21, 2002, 23:05

*Trip Wants to put crap under his avatar too.

Awww, come on, pretty please?

Asher · July 21, 2002, 23:44

Quote:

Originally posted by Ming
Considering all the crap some people put in their signatures and location fields... I have no interest in giving them another place to put more crap

Ming...turning down the opportunity to flex his banning muscles more? Who'da thunk it?

MattyBoy · July 21, 2002, 23:48

C'mon Ming, it might divert us from putting so much crap in the threads for a moment.

alva · July 22, 2002, 00:16

Quote:

Originally posted by MattyBoy
C'mon Ming, it might divert us from putting so much crap in the threads for a moment.

Nice try

!!

Please Ming

C'mon, giv'm willy(sp?) (Izzard quote btw

)

Apocalypse · July 22, 2002, 00:20

I have to go with Ming on this, but for different reasons. I don't want anything else slowing down this forum.

ixnay · July 22, 2002, 00:38

That's a good idea, actually.

Alternate idea: display your exact postcount when you hover the mouse over the avatar.

ixnay · July 22, 2002, 01:19

Ah, this wouldn't be hard to implement at all. For postcount, you'd just have to change the postbit_avatar template to:

PHP Code:


<img src="$avatarurl" border="0" alt="Postcount:  $post[posts]">

For avatar description, you'd just have to add another user profile field and change the code to:

PHP Code:


<img src="$avatarurl" border="0" alt="$post[fieldx]">

where the x is the number of the field. Quite simple, really.

loinburger · July 22, 2002, 01:27

I'd rather have my avatar trigger an annoying piece of MIDI music when somebody clicks on it. Any piece of Christian rock would do nicely, or else one of the more questionable Moody Blues songs.

Zoid · July 22, 2002, 05:31

Quote:

Originally posted by Ming
Considering all the crap some people put in their signatures and location fields... I have no interest in giving them another place to put more crap

Yeah, some people even put the same crap in their location field AND their sig...

aaglo · July 22, 2002, 05:59

No more crap, thank you

Dauphin · July 22, 2002, 08:13

I think we should have it, just so Ron Jeremy can mess with the minds of whoever hovers the cursor over his avatar.

Rasbelin · July 22, 2002, 08:22

I support that original suggestion.

Descriptions for custom avatars wouldn't be bad at all. More advertising space available to sell to my sponsors.

aaglo, are you trying to be somekind of anti-spam watchdog?

aaglo · July 22, 2002, 08:26

Rasbelin;
I'm not an anti-spam watchdog. I just recognize spam when I see it

Rasbelin · July 22, 2002, 08:52

*laughing like Homer Simpson*

BTW, I feel now more supportive than before for those descriptions after recently starting to use my new custom avatar. It really needs it.

aaglo · July 22, 2002, 08:59

What is that avatar...? A crocodile having a Napoleon-complex?

Ming · July 22, 2002, 10:41

Quote:

Originally posted by alva848
Please Ming

It's not up to me... It's up the owners... and so far, I haven't seen their replies yet

Andemagne · July 22, 2002, 11:51

Quote:

Originally posted by MattyBoy
When I see somebody's flag and think "what is that?" I just have to hold the cursor over it to see the name of the country.
Why not have the same thing with custom avatars? Each profile could include an editable field of up to 25 chars to provide a description.

yeah! good idea

but why limit it only to custom avatars?
and why only 25 characters?

Alex · July 22, 2002, 13:10

I'm against it. The forums will become too heavy to load.

Grrr · July 22, 2002, 15:12

Just don't put it into the Light stylesheet.

I think it is a great idea!

Method · July 22, 2002, 18:21

Quote:

Originally posted by Andemagne
but why limit it only to custom avatars?

yeah. you hover over my symbol and a box comes up saying [SMAC-Nautilus Pirates faction symbol]. Andemagnes would say [Civ II-knight] and mattyboy's would say [a cow]. what is that cow anyway?

ixnay · July 22, 2002, 19:14

Actually, doing it the way I proposed would let anyone put whatever they want there, regardless of whether or not their avatar is custom.

Rasbelin · July 22, 2002, 20:43

Quote:

Originally posted by aaglo
What is that avatar...? A crocodile having a Napoleon-complex?

Nope, Mozilla disquised as Napoleon.

A crocodile, hmph...

St Leo · July 22, 2002, 22:02

PHP Code:


<img*src="$avatarurl"*border="0"*alt="Postcount:**$post[posts]">

You mean

PHP Code:


<img*src="$avatarurl"*border="0"*title="Postcount:**$post[posts]">

The W3C standard specifies title as the tooltip text. I don't know if it works in IE, but alt doesn't work in Opera and that's all that matters.

ixnay · July 22, 2002, 23:15

Ah... I haven't seen title used before, just alt. The default template in vbulletin looks like this:

PHP Code:


<img src="$avatarurl" border="0" alt="">

Or at least in the version that my website runs.

MattyBoy · July 23, 2002, 00:20

I was suggesting it to limit to 25 chars and only be for custom so that the loading would not be much slower. What's the point in knowing what the non-custom avatars are?

I figure that an average of perhaps 10-15 extra chars per post would have a trivial load time compared to the avatars themselves.