Originally Posted by
Punki
We currently have three areas on FlyerTalk where members can post photos: The Picture Gallery, Travel Photography Forum, and Trip Reports. The moderators for those areas have all reported that allowing FlyerTalkers the the use of images in theose areas has added no extra burden to their load.
Avatars are not photographs and the net-wide expectations for and use of avatars are different from those of embedded photographs. I assert that you cannot tie one to the other.
Remember, this is a forum where the simple "reputation" feature led to angst and time-outs.
On a separate topic, perhaps this thread could be split into two, since it seems to contain both discussions of upgraded smilies and avatars.