Does your avatar affect communications.

[dmr]

To answer your original question, on this and other boards, most of my avatars are me in one form or another. (Edit: The current one here is not me, obviously, I actually forgot which one I had here.) 🙂

However (comma) I have noticed a definite difference in responses depending on if I use an avatar of me, or one more whimsical or androgynous.

 

[varjag]

Hrm, good question.

 

[mtbbrian]

I am a moderator on another photography forum, and a year or so ago one member of the community PM'ed me about another's avatar.
The person that PM'ed me had a major problem with the person's avatar he was messaging me about. The person's avatar was a picture of a dog, that was morphed or something to look somewhere between a human and dog. I am sure you have seen a similar picture.
Anyway, the person who PM'ed me was having major flashbacks whenever he looked at the other person's avatar. The two of them had commented on a lot of the same threads and what not.
Between me and the forum administrator we talked to both parties. We never asked the person to change his avatar, but made it known that one person had a problem with it.
Since then neither person has really contributed much.
So yeah, avatars can cause communication barriers.
Brian

 

[peter_n]

I use the same one everywhere, I think it originally came from AOL. It is useful for quickly scanning down post lists so I can find my own posts because perceptually it's highly discriminable (I only read my own posts 😉 ). I like it because it is sort of vague; a bit like me really...

 

[dexdog]

Roland, I now feel compelled to let the world know that my avatar is actually a picture of my dog Dex. I use it because he is better looking than I am, and I really like the blurry expressionistic look of the photo, and the slightly manic smile on his face.

I don't think that my avatar affects communication.

 

[Valder]

valder, if u are hiding from the alliance, better not post ur face. the feds are everywhere, especially on the net ... 😛

cheers
sebastian

See it works. LOL!





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