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POSTED BY: WHIMSICALNBRAINPAN
UPDATED: Monday, August 7, 2006 09:09
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Sunday, August 6, 2006 2:27 PM

How do you get a custom avatar into your profile? I've got one ready to go but I don't know how to upload it. What format does it need to be in? Yes I'm completely clueless when it comes to computers so nobody needs to bother and tell me this.

"Well, here I am." http://whimsicalnbrainpan.blogspot.com/

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Sunday, August 6, 2006 3:11 PM

FARFLY

Good question. Somewhere it says you can send in an avatar to be used, but I've sent one twice and still nothing.

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Sunday, August 6, 2006 4:04 PM

FOLLOWMAL

It does say that you can send one in to Haken for approval and then get it... be patient or maybe resubmit? Haken is a busy guy.

You can also just put a custom one as your signature. Just copy and paste the url for your custom avatar in the signature section of your personal settings under My Firefly. Not exactly the same, but it lets everyone have what they want .... with no waiting.

"You hold. Hold 'til I get back." Mal

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Sunday, August 6, 2006 11:53 PM

ZOID

Ummm... Actually, you really can't have a custom avatar.

I think (and I'm only guessing) Haken originally intended for folks to be able to have custom avatars; but the additional server space, dB linkages, and having to review each one for appropriateness (censoring) became apparently too time-consuming and/or cumbersome for one guy and one or two trusted allies to manage.

Still, 'back in the day' when the site was very young, a handful of people in fact did get custom avatars, and they are still associated with those avatars to this very day.

So, if you see a post with a custom avatar, know that you are talking with one of the very first patrons of FFFn, and show a little respect for the pioneers of this great site.

Succatash (who has a custom avatar) resurrected an old thread just last week, a mostly tongue-in-cheek (or at least 'cheeky') examination of pot and the 'verse. There were a few Original FFFn'ers who had posted in response during its first run, and you can still see their custom avatars on display in the resurrected thread.

But nobody's gotten one in the 2+ years I've been here, and it ain't from lack of trying (and praying and begging and pleading and wailing and gnashing of teeth). To paraphrase our Cap'n: Hoping for Haken to enable your custom avatar is a long wait for a train that don't ever come...

Significantly,

zoid

P.S.
Mine was gonna be this one:

...but Santa Haken never heard my prayers either.

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"I aim to misbehave." -Capt. Mal Reynolds, Serenity, a.k.a. 'the BDBOF'

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Sunday, August 6, 2006 11:57 PM

PHOENIXROSE

You think you know--what's to come, what you are. You haven't even begun.

That's too bad; I've made some shiny ones. Would he ever add a few to the basic page to chose from, I wonder? I would like to see one for Nandi, and more for River and more for Simon, since I don't really think the ones that are available express the characters that well. But I've also made one of Zoe and Wash, and of course the Captain. It would be very, very shiny if a few were added, just to break up the monotony a bit...

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Monday, August 7, 2006 12:16 AM

ZOID

PhoenixRose:

Wow... A fellow early riser? Cup o' coffee before getting hitched to the plow for another day? Or are you one of those 'I wake up fresh as a daisy every day at four in the morning' types?

Yah. Well. I don't think Haken's terribly inclined to change anything about the site's workings at this point. And I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that he considers avatars peripheral at best. You know, 'eye candy' that really doesn't amount to much compared to the core capabilities of the site.

Of course having said that, he's got his custom avatar.

But if you look at the avatar section of the Edit Profile page, that hasn't changed in at least the 2+ I've been here. It's an afterthought, at this point.

Maybe when he gets into his new server digs (within the next month or two, if memory serves) and gets everything settled code-wise, that might be a good time to broach the subject with him...

Respectfully,

zoid

P.S.
Please remember that I am merely extrapolating from observation. I have no relationship with Haken, other than that as subscriber to webmaster. I hope I've been respectful to him, and not led anyone to believe that I'm speaking for the man...
(But, I say again: No one has gotten a custom avatar in the two and a half years I've been active on this site. And I've seen 'em come, and I've seen 'em go...)
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Monday, August 7, 2006 12:24 AM

PHOENIXROSE

You think you know--what's to come, what you are. You haven't even begun.

Early riser? Oh you're funny. No, I work a night shift and have been up for at least nine hours. I can't wait to go home.
Well, yeah, maybe with a new server... Here's hoping, anyway.

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Monday, August 7, 2006 12:28 AM

GUYWHOWANTSAFIREFLYOFHISOWN

that'd be nice, I've seen some small images that would be great

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/llama.php
-try it out, I dare you

98% of teens have smoked pot, if you are one of the 2% that haven't, copy this into your signature

I'm so into Firefly, my butt glows in the dark.

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Monday, August 7, 2006 12:31 AM

ZOID

PR:

...And I've got to jump into the shower, be out of the house within 30 minutes and drive 56 miles to work, so... Have a good sleep.

Remember, not so very long ago (a month or two?) the site crashed in a most terrifying way for a couple of weeks. I'm thinking (again, meaning 'guessing') that Haken is not hot to change anything, right at this moment...

v/r,
-zed
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Monday, August 7, 2006 9:06 AM

WHIMSICALNBRAINPAN

FARFLY, FOLLOWMAL, AND GUYWHOWANTSAFIREFLYOFHISOWN:

Look at Ziod's post I think that will explain why you can't get a response.

"Well, here I am." http://whimsicalnbrainpan.blogspot.com/

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Monday, August 7, 2006 9:09 AM

WHIMSICALNBRAINPAN

So how do I get a hold of Haken? I'd be more than happy to help him with the approval process if I could. Thanks for letting me know what's up. BTW Zoid, I love your avatar choice. :-)

"Well, here I am." http://whimsicalnbrainpan.blogspot.com/

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