With the addition of the “O.G.” avatar I ask, why not fully implement avatars altogether. Now, to start, it would only be a small pool of avatars, but you still could get unique avatars (explained later). Now these could be anything from Spartans to pelicans, and have something like 10 or so to start. Now, here is the twist, every month there would be a contest held where you could enter your name in a drawing to have your own original avatar entered into the main avatar selection, and a few select members (like top 50 posters, winners of the for mentioned contest) could have there own “unique” approved avatars (they could still remove it and whatnot, but only they could access it in the avatar “menu”). I honestly think is will bring some personally back to the forums, comments?

Aloy’s thoughts?

kiunk:

go drown in a fire

Aloysius:I would have to manually add each avatar to each person.

I already have to do that for the O.G. thing, but I'm okay with that because there are not going to be a ton of them.

I'm definitely not going to do it for the 100,576 HaloWars forum accounts.

sad face =(

is there any way do add some sort of pic system, even if it is not unique for the few people (or the other way around =D) I mean there are many, many fourms that do this, im sure it is possible.

Edit: can you read what I am typing or soemthing, but come on, I mean jsut let some people have avatars, I eman lets say for example you only give it to contest winners and top 100 posters it would not be that hard would it?

kiunk:

go drown in a fire

Aloysius:I would have to manually add each avatar to each person.

I already have to do that for the O.G. thing, but I'm okay with that because there are not going to be a ton of them.

I'm definitely not going to do it for the 100,576 HaloWars forum accounts.

The HaloWars forums weren't built with Avatars in mind, and the only stock options that come with it are Upload your own (which we are absolutely not going to do) or none at all.

Aloysius, I think you give it a shot. Think how much complaining and whatnot will come from those who do not get the O.G. avatars. What do you have to lose. Put the forum on a trial run with sigs again. See how they go. What do you actually have to lose. Think about it though, the people who got sigs terminated were just two people. Two people who messed up the site a little. I hardly see that as a reason to punish everyone here for it, as though they were somehow responsible. I know I am just one voice. But a lot of the people here today know the rules, and with barely any new people joining of late, you have a group of people who know and respect the rules enough not to abuse them.

 Most forumers here today have never seen or had a picture sig before. Yes, you've explained this to me before, but I refuse to give up when I see a chance. I know you're reasonable. I know that doing something like this will boost your popularity. I know that it won't be a chance wasted. Aloysius, ask anyone of the forumers, many of them would not mind having picture sigs back, and they would all agree not to abuse them. I never abused them, there were whole threads devoted to tutorials on how to make them, request threads and competiton threads based off them. It would bring a lot of life back. Please, read through my points carefully, and tell me why this shouldn't happen Aloysius.

Encrypted AI:

Aloysius:I would have to manually add each avatar to each person.

I already have to do that for the O.G. thing, but I'm okay with that because there are not going to be a ton of them.

I'm definitely not going to do it for the 100,576 HaloWars forum accounts.

sad face =(

is there any way do add some sort of pic system, even if it is not unique for the few people (or the other way around =D) I mean there are many, many fourms that do this, im sure it is possible.

Edit: can you read what I am typing or soemthing, but come on, I mean jsut let some people have avatars, I eman lets say for example you only give it to contest winners and top 100 posters it would not be that hard would it?

if it went by post count count then people would spam the forums for a higher post count, even though I would get a cool avatar I say no way.

(this forum is only big enoguh for one spammer, me ;D)

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Aloysius:I would have to manually add each avatar to each person.

I already have to do that for the O.G. thing, but I'm okay with that because there are not going to be a ton of them.

I'm definitely not going to do it for the 100,576 HaloWars forum accounts.

The HaloWars forums weren't built with Avatars in mind, and the only stock options that come with it are Upload your own (which we are absolutely not going to do) or none at all.

Aloysius, I think you give it a shot. Think how much complaining and whatnot will come from those who do not get the O.G. avatars. What do you have to lose. Put the forum on a trial run with sigs again. See how they go. What do you actually have to lose. Think about it though, the people who got sigs terminated were just two people. Two people who messed up the site a little. I hardly see that as a reason to punish everyone here for it, as though they were somehow responsible. I know I am just one voice. But a lot of the people here today know the rules, and with barely any new people joining of late, you have a group of people who know and respect the rules enough not to abuse them.

 Most forumers here today have never seen or had a picture sig before. Yes, you've explained this to me before, but I refuse to give up when I see a chance. I know you're reasonable. I know that doing something like this will boost your popularity. I know that it won't be a chance wasted. Aloysius, ask anyone of the forumers, many of them would not mind having picture sigs back, and they would all agree not to abuse them. I never abused them, there were whole threads devoted to tutorials on how to make them, request threads and competiton threads based off them. It would bring a lot of life back. Please, read through my points carefully, and tell me why this shouldn't happen Aloysius.

+1, and I really do think they could be implemented without a problem in you have "minor mods" all they would have is the ability to remove pics from sigs and temp ban people, and aloy could ban the guy or ban the minor mod, so it really could stop flame wars and any more sig problems

kiunk:

go drown in a fire

studmuffin:

Encrypted AI:

Aloysius:I would have to manually add each avatar to each person.

I already have to do that for the O.G. thing, but I'm okay with that because there are not going to be a ton of them.

I'm definitely not going to do it for the 100,576 HaloWars forum accounts.

sad face =(

is there any way do add some sort of pic system, even if it is not unique for the few people (or the other way around =D) I mean there are many, many fourms that do this, im sure it is possible.

Edit: can you read what I am typing or soemthing, but come on, I mean jsut let some people have avatars, I eman lets say for example you only give it to contest winners and top 100 posters it would not be that hard would it?

if it went by post count count then people would spam the forums for a higher post count, even though I would get a cool avatar I say no way.

(this forum is only big enoguh for one spammer, me ;D)

OK "contributing members", stud, you would be in -12 place!

kiunk:

go drown in a fire

Encrypted AI:

Offensive Bias:

Aloysius:I would have to manually add each avatar to each person.

I already have to do that for the O.G. thing, but I'm okay with that because there are not going to be a ton of them.

I'm definitely not going to do it for the 100,576 HaloWars forum accounts.

The HaloWars forums weren't built with Avatars in mind, and the only stock options that come with it are Upload your own (which we are absolutely not going to do) or none at all.

Aloysius, I think you give it a shot. Think how much complaining and whatnot will come from those who do not get the O.G. avatars. What do you have to lose. Put the forum on a trial run with sigs again. See how they go. What do you actually have to lose. Think about it though, the people who got sigs terminated were just two people. Two people who messed up the site a little. I hardly see that as a reason to punish everyone here for it, as though they were somehow responsible. I know I am just one voice. But a lot of the people here today know the rules, and with barely any new people joining of late, you have a group of people who know and respect the rules enough not to abuse them.

 Most forumers here today have never seen or had a picture sig before. Yes, you've explained this to me before, but I refuse to give up when I see a chance. I know you're reasonable. I know that doing something like this will boost your popularity. I know that it won't be a chance wasted. Aloysius, ask anyone of the forumers, many of them would not mind having picture sigs back, and they would all agree not to abuse them. I never abused them, there were whole threads devoted to tutorials on how to make them, request threads and competiton threads based off them. It would bring a lot of life back. Please, read through my points carefully, and tell me why this shouldn't happen Aloysius.

+1, and I really do think they could be implemented without a problem in you have "minor mods" all they would have is the ability to remove pics from sigs and temp ban people, and aloy could ban the guy or ban the minor mod, so it really could stop flame wars and any more sig problems

I kinda disagree on the Minor Mod thing. On an official site like this, it wouldn't be practical. A lot would abuse the power. But if anyone abuses a sig, Aloysius could just ban them... It wouldn't be very difficult.

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studmuffin:

Encrypted AI:

Aloysius:I would have to manually add each avatar to each person.

I already have to do that for the O.G. thing, but I'm okay with that because there are not going to be a ton of them.

I'm definitely not going to do it for the 100,576 HaloWars forum accounts.

sad face =(

is there any way do add some sort of pic system, even if it is not unique for the few people (or the other way around =D) I mean there are many, many fourms that do this, im sure it is possible.

Edit: can you read what I am typing or soemthing, but come on, I mean jsut let some people have avatars, I eman lets say for example you only give it to contest winners and top 100 posters it would not be that hard would it?

if it went by post count count then people would spam the forums for a higher post count, even though I would get a cool avatar I say no way.

(this forum is only big enoguh for one spammer, me ;D)

OK "contributing members", stud, you would be in -12 place!

-12, since when did you start being ncie to me, you know I would be in - (insert infinte sign here) ;D

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Encrypted AI:

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Aloysius:I would have to manually add each avatar to each person.

I already have to do that for the O.G. thing, but I'm okay with that because there are not going to be a ton of them.

I'm definitely not going to do it for the 100,576 HaloWars forum accounts.

The HaloWars forums weren't built with Avatars in mind, and the only stock options that come with it are Upload your own (which we are absolutely not going to do) or none at all.

Aloysius, I think you give it a shot. Think how much complaining and whatnot will come from those who do not get the O.G. avatars. What do you have to lose. Put the forum on a trial run with sigs again. See how they go. What do you actually have to lose. Think about it though, the people who got sigs terminated were just two people. Two people who messed up the site a little. I hardly see that as a reason to punish everyone here for it, as though they were somehow responsible. I know I am just one voice. But a lot of the people here today know the rules, and with barely any new people joining of late, you have a group of people who know and respect the rules enough not to abuse them.

 Most forumers here today have never seen or had a picture sig before. Yes, you've explained this to me before, but I refuse to give up when I see a chance. I know you're reasonable. I know that doing something like this will boost your popularity. I know that it won't be a chance wasted. Aloysius, ask anyone of the forumers, many of them would not mind having picture sigs back, and they would all agree not to abuse them. I never abused them, there were whole threads devoted to tutorials on how to make them, request threads and competiton threads based off them. It would bring a lot of life back. Please, read through my points carefully, and tell me why this shouldn't happen Aloysius.

+1, and I really do think they could be implemented without a problem in you have "minor mods" all they would have is the ability to remove pics from sigs and temp ban people, and aloy could ban the guy or ban the minor mod, so it really could stop flame wars and any more sig problems

I kinda disagree on the Minor Mod thing. On an official site like this, it wouldn't be practical. A lot would abuse the power. But if anyone abuses a sig, Aloysius could just ban them... It wouldn't be very difficult.

Like I said, aloy would review why they where banned, and the minor mod would get the banhammer if it was not justified

kiunk:

go drown in a fire

studmuffin:

Encrypted AI:

studmuffin:

Encrypted AI:

Aloysius:I would have to manually add each avatar to each person.

I already have to do that for the O.G. thing, but I'm okay with that because there are not going to be a ton of them.

I'm definitely not going to do it for the 100,576 HaloWars forum accounts.

sad face =(

is there any way do add some sort of pic system, even if it is not unique for the few people (or the other way around =D) I mean there are many, many fourms that do this, im sure it is possible.

Edit: can you read what I am typing or soemthing, but come on, I mean jsut let some people have avatars, I eman lets say for example you only give it to contest winners and top 100 posters it would not be that hard would it?

if it went by post count count then people would spam the forums for a higher post count, even though I would get a cool avatar I say no way.

(this forum is only big enoguh for one spammer, me ;D)

OK "contributing members", stud, you would be in -12 place!

-12, since when did you start being ncie to me, you know I would be in - (insert infinte sign here) ;D

Well yours is over Negative 9000!!!!

kiunk:

go drown in a fire

I could be a mod =D

I only suggest this beacuse I know aloy wont allow it, this pic thingy will casue like every new memeber and some recent ones to start a thread gonig "wah, awh I want a cool pic I was so close and I dont feel it's fair wah".

I say get the *** over it people

Aloysius:We can't have volunteer moderators due to how Microsoft operates.

B.net fourms?

Getting picture signatures back would require a code change for the forum engine which is actually fairly complicated. Given that we had to remove them for being abused in the first place, I don't think it would be very long before people would abuse them again.

 Think, but you dont know like be and OB said, give it one try, that is all we ask, if you are right you are right, but we dont know that you are

kiunk:

go drown in a fire

studmuffin:

I could be a mod =D

I only suggest this beacuse I know aloy wont allow it, this pic thingy will casue like every new memeber and some recent ones to start a thread gonig "wah, awh I want a cool pic I was so close and I dont feel it's fair wah".

I say get the *** over it people

Language! Dont make me take away halo wars! =D

kiunk:

go drown in a fire