All I can say is wow
I saw people with the new avatar, and being the meddling fool that I am, saw that the avatars were available in the options. So I decided to vote, and I even changed the avatar.
But people having the same avatars (2, and none) is boring, so I turned them off.
I think there is only one way to fix this, and that is to force the avatar to show off when people vote, bring back reputation, and then we can ding all of them, and enable thread ratings, and give them a poor rating everytime they start a new one
Honestly, this is an issue?