Originally Posted by
Punki
What I like as a general member and what I would support as a TalkBoard member are two entiely balls of wax.
There are many things that I don't personally like or even care about one way or the other, but I am flexible enough that I would still support those things as a TalkBoard member if I felt they were in the best interest of other members of the community. I sincerely hope that all TalkBoard members feel exactly the same way.
As was stated earlier, there really doesn't necessarily need to be any moderator involvement. That task could be allocated to an image monitoring team. Actually that might be a good way to create more general interest in FT, while simultaneously removing a burden from the moderator team.
Image monitoring team? We're to have moderators and... image moderators? You could say it the other way just as easily; post monitors and image monitors. Either way, is creating such a body within the purview of talkboard?
I know avatars are used elsewhere. I use them elsewhere. I simply don't feel them appropriate for FT. I would support their use if I could turn them off. I understand others may wish to have them and I firmly believe they shouldn't be denied simply because
I don't like them.
Setting that aside as it's not relevant to smilies; I would love to see an expanded collection of smilies. I do think the animated smilies add quite a lot to the discourse and have many times wished I could use them here. How did we get from smilies to avatars again?