Could we please stop faking 'Admin' buttons in our avatars?

http://nmaps.net/user/Fraxtil · Postby **Fraxtil** » 2009.03.13 (00:04)

Same goes for 'Moderator' and 'Legacy Elite'. You know who you guys are. I get confused whenever I see one of these buttons on a user who I don't remember ever being an administrator (or moderator, etc.). Please, it's annoying and not cool at all.

http://nmaps.net/user/Atilla · Postby **Atilla** » 2009.03.13 (00:39)

If you see this, please notify a real admin so they can remove the offending avatar.

http://www.nmaps.net/user/Aidiera · Postby **aids** » 2009.03.13 (00:46)

Hear, hear! What ever happened to having originality in your avatars? (points to Techno)

http://nmaps.net/user/astheoceansblue · Postby **a happy song** » 2009.03.13 (00:53)

Life247 wrote:Hear, hear! What ever happened to having originality in your avatars? (points to Techno)

I think there's only one user with this avatar? Regardless, the first time was/is original and quite amusing, and it's really not difficult to distinguish what is an avatar and what's an actual badge.

This is such a tiny community, close knit and generally warmer than most, sometimes we act like we're bigger than we are and come down too harshly on pranks and whatnot. It's not like we have such massive activity that we need to be so strict about things is it?

http://nmaps.net/user/lord_day · Postby **lord_day** » 2009.03.13 (00:57)

I agree with atob. There are so many quick ways to tell if a user is part of a special group or not, that I don't think it really matters if they have fake buttons in their avatar.

http://nmaps.net/user/Fraxtil · Postby **Fraxtil** » 2009.03.13 (01:01)

atob wrote:
Life247 wrote:Hear, hear! What ever happened to having originality in your avatars? (points to Techno)
I think there's only one user with this avatar?

I've noticed at least three, but there may be more.

http://nmaps.net/user/Atilla · Postby **Atilla** » 2009.03.13 (01:14)

lord_day wrote:I agree with atob. There are so many quick ways to tell if a user is part of a special group or not, that I don't think it really matters if they have fake buttons in their avatar.

New people might not be familiar with these ways, though, so to prevent confusion it's really best if you don't do it. It's not like we're going to ban everyone who did this or anything - I'm just saying you've had your joke, and can you please revert your avatar to avoid confusion?

http://nmaps.net/user/astheoceansblue · Postby **a happy song** » 2009.03.13 (01:18)

Atilla wrote:
lord_day wrote:I agree with atob. There are so many quick ways to tell if a user is part of a special group or not, that I don't think it really matters if they have fake buttons in their avatar.
New people might not be familiar with these ways, though, so to prevent confusion it's really best if you don't do it. It's not like we're going to ban everyone who did this or anything - I'm just saying you've had your joke, and can you please revert your avatar to avoid confusion?

Well, if it's more than one user then I'd agree. Joke would be old and confusion might be had. Fair enough.

Postby **t̷s͢uk̕a͡t͜ư** » 2009.03.13 (02:05)

Really, is it that hard to just look at the name color and/or title?

http://nmaps.net/user/T3chno · Postby **T3chno** » 2009.03.13 (03:34)

Life247 wrote:Hear, hear! What ever happened to having originality in your avatars? (points to Techno)

What?

This is the avvy Chase made for me. :o

Unless you're referring to the Mr. T one.

http://nmaps.net/user/UniverseZero · Postby **Universezero** » 2009.03.13 (04:19)

Is mine okay?

http://nmaps.net/user/rikaninja · Postby **Rikaninja** » 2009.03.13 (05:54)

Explorer? Is that another joke or is there actually a new group caled the explorers.

That's what I was thinking at first, confusing kind of. I was going to have one of those patches as my avvy but I though against it for that same reason. Confusing, very confusing.

Postby **SlappyMcGee** » 2009.03.13 (06:27)

It's a creation, since Explorer would be assigned to somebody with the custom title "Explorer".

Seriously, though, it's fine. Everything under the sea related to this doesn't matter. We're a community of like, what, 100 regular users, and a bunch of side characters? A tenth of us are admins, mods, legacy elite... If you can't keep track of who the mods are, you probably don't need much from them.

http://nmaps.net/user/rikaninja · Postby **Rikaninja** » 2009.03.13 (06:59)

Hmm, 100 users. Metanet should go largeererer scale. That would be cool. And hectic. And more cases of people doing things like faking mod pathes in their avvies. Oh well, dream the dreams.

http://www.nmaps.net/user/Aidiera · Postby **aids** » 2009.03.13 (07:32)

Techno wrote:
Life247 wrote:Hear, hear! What ever happened to having originality in your avatars? (points to Techno)
What?

This is the avvy Chase made for me. :o

Unless you're referring to the Mr. T one.

Yeah, I was. Too bad you changed it.

http://nmaps.net/user/gloomp · Postby **unoriginal name** » 2009.03.13 (16:12)

Oh, fine. ;_;

http://nmaps.net/user/pni · Postby **Pixon** » 2009.03.13 (20:49)

gloomp wrote:Oh, fine. ;_;

You see what you did, GForce??? You made gloomp cry!!! D:<

But in all seriousness, it was getting a little annoying. But it was fun to look at someone and think "Oh my God, he's a Mod!"

http://nmaps.net/user/UniverseZero · Postby **Universezero** » 2009.03.14 (00:00)

Yeah, also, the colour of their names is a dead giveaway as to whether they're real or not.

Postby **Lenny** » 2009.03.14 (23:29)

UniverseZero wrote:Yeah, also, the colour of their names is a dead giveaway as to whether they're real or not.

That's true. Personally, I thought yours was kind of neat, but I had to look twice to figure out it wasn't a status or something. Goes nicely with the avatar though.

http://nmaps.net/user/jackass77 · Postby **jackass** » 2009.03.15 (01:17)

I like snuggletummies, its looks cool even if hes faking them

Postby **blackson** » 2009.03.16 (10:18)

Oh don't be such a girl.

http://nmaps.net/user/santa_hat_crusader · Postby **Superpok** » 2009.03.18 (02:47)

i didn't realize anyone was faking them other than UZ, i don't quite get why they are there other than to be flashy...

http://nmaps.net/user/UniverseZero · Postby **Universezero** » 2009.03.18 (05:12)

Superpok wrote:i didn't realize anyone was faking them other than UZ, i don't quite get why they are there other than to be flashy...

The power of the uniform, my friend, the power of the uniform.

http://nmaps.net/user/santa_hat_crusader · Postby **Superpok** » 2009.03.18 (23:54)

all in favor of giving UZ an actual explorer badge just for coming up with the explorer joke?

http://nmaps.net/user/Atilla · Postby **Atilla** » 2009.03.20 (02:53)

Blackson wrote:Oh don't be such a girl.

Why not? It works for 50% of the population.

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