A Vote for Avatars
A growing number of TPM posters have avatars - it's a trend I support whole-heartedly. It contributes to the sense of community here and creates continuity across threads. Names alone are harder to process and remember.
If posters who consistently have productive, interesting things to say have an avatar, we're able to pick their comments out of the crowd more easily as we scan threads; if unproductive posters have an avatar, we can skip over their comments unread more easily (comments that are intended to disrupt will be less disruptive).
Avatars are as varied as TPM posters themselves - face shots, baby pictures, animals, historical figures, cartoon characters, - I love them all.
My heartfelt thanks to TPM posters who have avatars. To name just a few that come to mind, thank you to DF, Ben Hocking, articleman, rabbitsmorgasbord, bluebell, HusseinTenaX, astral66, littleblackpropaganda, Tom Wright, Genghis, clearthinker, Subliminability, jdw, Cville Dem, LizB, DancingBear, PaDem, lifelongdem, ondioline, Larry Geater, urbinato, Maria Gomez, Allsburg, Iowa Mike, Lookingin, FreeBubba, chautauquan, hrebndorf, Morghan, Moose49, Billy Glad, donnerpass, whoffman, Wade Hussein Blazingame34, fabooj, roo_P, Slouch, demosaur, WorkinJoe, ergoquid, billysunday, Yvaughn, The Commenter Formerly Known as NCSteve, JohnDoe, AdAbsurdum, anna am, scofflaw, laurajordan, BionicSoy, clevomon, Liberal_Elite, mageduley, memoryaid, Phoebe Fay, Qwerty, (just added) TM, Madden (?), the Smurf character, the fellow with the rocket, and all the others.
So, John McFadden, AmericanDreamer, liam, womanand57, tpmgary, kavitz, cscs, jweb271, Hilarym99, observer2, Connie Manes, LaBobsterofAnaheim, James Watt, JedReport, houlios1, idiotic - this means you - I look forward to the day when you all have avatars!
I hope TPM management focuses on adding and polishing other features that enhance the community-building potential here; we're going to need it in the days to come. Suggestions?
If posters who consistently have productive, interesting things to say have an avatar, we're able to pick their comments out of the crowd more easily as we scan threads; if unproductive posters have an avatar, we can skip over their comments unread more easily (comments that are intended to disrupt will be less disruptive).
Avatars are as varied as TPM posters themselves - face shots, baby pictures, animals, historical figures, cartoon characters, - I love them all.
My heartfelt thanks to TPM posters who have avatars. To name just a few that come to mind, thank you to DF, Ben Hocking, articleman, rabbitsmorgasbord, bluebell, HusseinTenaX, astral66, littleblackpropaganda, Tom Wright, Genghis, clearthinker, Subliminability, jdw, Cville Dem, LizB, DancingBear, PaDem, lifelongdem, ondioline, Larry Geater, urbinato, Maria Gomez, Allsburg, Iowa Mike, Lookingin, FreeBubba, chautauquan, hrebndorf, Morghan, Moose49, Billy Glad, donnerpass, whoffman, Wade Hussein Blazingame34, fabooj, roo_P, Slouch, demosaur, WorkinJoe, ergoquid, billysunday, Yvaughn, The Commenter Formerly Known as NCSteve, JohnDoe, AdAbsurdum, anna am, scofflaw, laurajordan, BionicSoy, clevomon, Liberal_Elite, mageduley, memoryaid, Phoebe Fay, Qwerty, (just added) TM, Madden (?), the Smurf character, the fellow with the rocket, and all the others.
So, John McFadden, AmericanDreamer, liam, womanand57, tpmgary, kavitz, cscs, jweb271, Hilarym99, observer2, Connie Manes, LaBobsterofAnaheim, James Watt, JedReport, houlios1, idiotic - this means you - I look forward to the day when you all have avatars!
I hope TPM management focuses on adding and polishing other features that enhance the community-building potential here; we're going to need it in the days to come. Suggestions?
