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Could we please stop faking 'Admin' buttons in our avatars?
Posted: 2009.03.13 (00:04)
by Fraxtil
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.
Re: Could we please stop faking 'Admin' buttons in our avatars?
Posted: 2009.03.13 (00:39)
by Atilla
If you see this, please notify a real admin so they can remove the offending avatar.
Re: Could we please stop faking 'Admin' buttons in our avatars?
Posted: 2009.03.13 (00:46)
by aids
Hear, hear! What ever happened to having originality in your avatars? (points to Techno)
Re: Could we please stop faking 'Admin' buttons in our avatars?
Posted: 2009.03.13 (00:53)
by a happy song
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?
Re: Could we please stop faking 'Admin' buttons in our avatars?
Posted: 2009.03.13 (00:57)
by lord_day
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.
Re: Could we please stop faking 'Admin' buttons in our avatars?
Posted: 2009.03.13 (01:01)
by Fraxtil
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.
Re: Could we please stop faking 'Admin' buttons in our avatars?
Posted: 2009.03.13 (01:14)
by Atilla
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?
Re: Could we please stop faking 'Admin' buttons in our avatars?
Posted: 2009.03.13 (01:18)
by a happy song
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.
Re: Could we please stop faking 'Admin' buttons in our avatars?
Posted: 2009.03.13 (02:05)
by t̷s͢uk̕a͡t͜ư
Really, is it that hard to just look at the name color and/or title?
Re: Could we please stop faking 'Admin' buttons in our avatars?
Posted: 2009.03.13 (03:34)
by T3chno
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.
Re: Could we please stop faking 'Admin' buttons in our avatars?
Posted: 2009.03.13 (04:19)
by Universezero
Is mine okay?
Re: Could we please stop faking 'Admin' buttons in our avatars?
Posted: 2009.03.13 (05:54)
by Rikaninja
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.
Re: Could we please stop faking 'Admin' buttons in our avatars?
Posted: 2009.03.13 (06:27)
by SlappyMcGee
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.
Re: Could we please stop faking 'Admin' buttons in our avatars?
Posted: 2009.03.13 (06:59)
by Rikaninja
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.
Re: Could we please stop faking 'Admin' buttons in our avatars?
Posted: 2009.03.13 (07:32)
by aids
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.
Re: Could we please stop faking 'Admin' buttons in our avatars?
Posted: 2009.03.13 (16:12)
by unoriginal name
Oh, fine. ;_;
Re: Could we please stop faking 'Admin' buttons in our avatars?
Posted: 2009.03.13 (20:49)
by Pixon
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!"
Re: Could we please stop faking 'Admin' buttons in our avatars?
Posted: 2009.03.14 (00:00)
by Universezero
Yeah, also, the colour of their names is a dead giveaway as to whether they're real or not.
Re: Could we please stop faking 'Admin' buttons in our avatars?
Posted: 2009.03.14 (23:29)
by Lenny
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.
Re: Could we please stop faking 'Admin' buttons in our avatars?
Posted: 2009.03.15 (01:17)
by jackass
I like snuggletummies, its looks cool even if hes faking them
Re: Could we please stop faking 'Admin' buttons in our avatars?
Posted: 2009.03.16 (10:18)
by blackson
Oh don't be such a girl.
Re: Could we please stop faking 'Admin' buttons in our avatars?
Posted: 2009.03.18 (02:47)
by Superpok
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...
Re: Could we please stop faking 'Admin' buttons in our avatars?
Posted: 2009.03.18 (05:12)
by Universezero
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.
Re: Could we please stop faking 'Admin' buttons in our avatars?
Posted: 2009.03.18 (23:54)
by Superpok
all in favor of giving UZ an actual explorer badge just for coming up with the explorer joke?
Re: Could we please stop faking 'Admin' buttons in our avatars?
Posted: 2009.03.20 (02:53)
by Atilla
Blackson wrote:Oh don't be such a girl.
Why not? It works for 50% of the population.