Required selfie avatars.

Started by Nick June 8th, 2014 7:11 PM
  • 1584 views
  • 51 replies

Nick

Seen 4 Weeks Ago
Posted July 28th, 2021
17,572 posts
18.6 Years
PC just implemented a new change to the site.

You are now required to use a picture of yourself as an avatar at all times. Failure to do so will result in a ban. Also assume we live in a world where a picture of anyone is tagged with their name and using a picture that isn't tagged to your name results in imprisonment or something dramatic.

With this new change also comes an option to disable your account if you don't accept this new change.

How do you think you'll respond?

Alexander Nicholi

work hard, play hard

Age 25
Male
Research Triangle / Jakarta
Seen February 15th, 2023
Posted March 5th, 2021
5,498 posts
13.5 Years
Eh, conform. I've put selfies and portraits as avatars before, and will likely do so again. :/
the beat goes on (ノ^o^;)ノ
ヽ(;^o^ヽ) the beat goes on
the beat goes on (ノ^o^;)ノ
ヽ(;^o^ヽ) the beat goes on
( don’t stop the groovin’ )

donavannj

Age 32
Male
'cause it get cold like Minnesota
Seen 4 Days Ago
Posted 1 Week Ago
22,513 posts
18.2 Years
Welp, it was nice knowin' y'all. I like being able to control the level of my anonymity, even though a sizable number of people here already know my full name and what I look like, so in a society with mandatory tagging of all photos of you and with PC mandating pictures of you as an avatar, I would bail from the internet as a whole and dive whatever the hot new networking means was that provides an adequate amount of anonymity.
whoops

Tsutarja

Age 28
he / him
Florida
Seen 4 Hours Ago
Posted 13 Hours Ago
27,327 posts
13.2 Years
I'd bail. I know I have posted photos in the past, but I've just gone through changes and I prefer to keep more quiet about my general appearance. Besides, anybody on the internet could easily take a photograph of yourself and use it for their own profit on the internet, or even ruin your identity. I don't really think that'd be a risk I'd want to take.

Khoshi

とてもかわいい!

Age 24
Male
Sydney, Australia
Seen January 3rd, 2020
Posted October 16th, 2019
2,646 posts
10.1 Years
If that's the case, then goodbye PC.

I don't like selfies in general, so I'd personally hate that rule. I see avatars as a symbol of interests, personalities and hobbies, not of...well, you. It doesn't give me a good view of what you're like if your avatar's a face of you.

Oh, and if you've seen the picture threads here you'd know I always delete my pics, so there's that :\

Xilfer

Just won't die.

Male
Your mind
Seen May 5th, 2015
Posted May 5th, 2015
1,880 posts
12.7 Years
I'd just lie and put someone else's selfie up

Bye bye PC. Was nice knowing ya, but I prefer not to let just anyone know who I am. Facebook and social media stuff is okay I guess, as long as it's not linked to my anonymous profiles on other sites, since only a few close friends around here have seen my fb. But for just anyone to see me while browsing around... nah. I'll find another forum to frequent.

also I suck at selfies

Altairis

take me ☆ take you

Female
database database
Seen December 29th, 2022
Posted October 5th, 2018
5,170 posts
11 Years
I really don't care about most people on PC knowing what I look like, but I wouldn't want someone I know irl to connect this account to me, so I would probably leave for a bit. But I might end up sucking it up and posting a picture of myself anyway, if I decide I can't stay away haha.

ORAS/XYBW

£

You're gonna have a bad time.

Age 31
Male
"england would also be acceptible"
Seen November 3rd, 2019
Posted November 5th, 2017
947 posts
9.2 Years
boys wasting my time pretending to be girls,
If you're implying what I think you're implying... you're going to get slain so bad for that.

I honestly don't care either way.

If you want to be very close with me, you're going to need to spill absolutely every last shred of detail of your life to me mind; and I'd do the same. 8D But I'm perfectly fine keeping a casual anonymous distance from things too.

People could easily take selfies that look totally different too. 8D Nobody's going to know if that person even is you, you could easily take a picture of someone else/dressed up/whatever. How would you know if that person was lying or not?
Sarcasm, its what social able people have, you know wen you go out and meet chicks just not on forums 1,000,000 miles away from you and you ask them what color underwear they have. - Aristotle, 355 B.C

$ ¥ £

Hikamaru

Age 30
Female
Australia
Seen January 24th, 2019
Posted September 4th, 2018
50,214 posts
12.2 Years
I don't think I'd enjoy this, because I know how much I hate my self-appearance plus I agree with Nonon's post. Avatars should represent interest, personality, hobby and well what you like, not a pic of yourself. I know just how unattractive I look in real life and it would be a huge plot-twist to those who imagined me on what I am right now.
Gone forever for personal reasons.
Visit my Tumblr page if you wish to contact me.

http://daikenkki.tumblr.com/

Candy

Age 26
Female
In OJ Land
Seen 1 Week Ago
Posted August 22nd, 2020
3,813 posts
14.3 Years
Well then, it was nice being here in PC while it lasted.

aka. I prefer to be anonymous
_
Zhuang Zi
Crash Fever

Shining Raichu

Expect me like you expect Jesus.

Age 32
Male
Australia
Seen October 17th, 2020
Posted December 21st, 2017
8,958 posts
12.3 Years
^ just leaving that there so people can still see a great post even though i had to delete it because rules

Anyway I'd stay, it would mess with my beautiful themes but it's not really a big deal. I'd advise everybody who's squeamish about it to suck it up lol
Moderator of General Chat

Universe

all-consuming

Seen November 16th, 2016
Posted November 16th, 2016
2,239 posts
9.6 Years
Mario's face might as well be mine?

Nah uh I would probably leave? Because I'm not a fan of messing with my perfectly fine themes and I'm also not a fan of a lot of other things regarding real life that I don't wish to talk about publicly. uvu; So yeah I don't think, as much as I love PC, that I would conform to such a rule. I'd rather leave.

The internet is my escape from real life, and I don't plan on messing that up by including too much real life onto it.

" Catchphrase! "

Khilia

Kawaii in the streets, senpai in the sheets

Age 24
Female
Everywhere yet nowhere
Seen August 12th, 2014
Posted July 6th, 2014
459 posts
9.4 Years
Looking how I have gender dysphoria, and my appearance and everything else that comes along with it is just... more unacceptable than anything else for me, well...

It'd simply be the death sentence for me.

Poki

Banned

България
Seen February 20th, 2020
Posted September 21st, 2015
2,423 posts
9.8 Years
Can someone explain why they have a problem posting a picture of themself online but they likely don't have a problem just walking freely in a mall or large city or sporting arena?

Because I don't really get it.
It's one thing to be seen outside, and another to show people pictures of you where you can & have the right to remain anonymous.

Also, I can imagine how people with social anxiety would have a problem going outside, and be seen by others.

Khoshi

とてもかわいい!

Age 24
Male
Sydney, Australia
Seen January 3rd, 2020
Posted October 16th, 2019
2,646 posts
10.1 Years
Can someone explain why they have a problem posting a picture of themself online but they likely don't have a problem just walking freely in a mall or large city or sporting arena?

Because I don't really get it.
The internet's a whole lot more expansive than a shopping centre. That's around a thousand compared to millions. The internet isn't populated by the nicest people, either.

Not everyone's as willing to share a picture of themselves as you are.
Why are you even comparing being outside to the internet in the first place? I don't get that.

Khilia

Kawaii in the streets, senpai in the sheets

Age 24
Female
Everywhere yet nowhere
Seen August 12th, 2014
Posted July 6th, 2014
459 posts
9.4 Years
Can someone explain why they have a problem posting a picture of themself online but they likely don't have a problem just walking freely in a mall or large city or sporting arena?

Because I don't really get it.
The reason why I use internet forums is that very reason.

I want to escape real life and the mess it is, I want to be someone I want to be and enjoy being, rather than needing to be bound to something as superficial as the way I look like.
People can easily get along with each other -without- needing to judge or being judged by their looks, which is the unfortunate case in real life.
If I really wanted to see how others looked like I could visit the selfie threads, or just move to effing facebook.
In all honesty, the plain idea is just incredibly unfair to transgender or whatever people, or people who are simply just shy as hell and won't like everyone to know how they look like.

If that rule really would be pulled off then PC definitely would lose at least 1/2 or 3/4 of it's entire population...
Seen February 26th, 2015
Posted February 8th, 2015
1,908 posts
10.3 Years
Ehh, I wouldn't really like it. Not so much as run off from this site but... hmm, maybe my bro would allow me to pose as him. ofc, if his picture is tagged with his name then I'm going to get me own name changed.

Seriously though, I'd rather not do it, but I don't see much of a problem for most people, yeah.
~

Sopheria

響け〜 響け!

深き海の彼方
Seen July 19th, 2022
Posted December 17th, 2017
4,904 posts
9.5 Years
Eh, I wouldn't care, personally, but that would be a horrible rule. A huge portion of PC would choose the "leave PC forever" option, and such a rule would probably keep a lot of potential new members from joining.

With only a few people here, it'd be pretty lifeless here, and I'd probably get bored and leave :P

Edit: I just thought about something. What's to stop someone from using a picture that's not actually them? Even if someone did stay here and conform to the rule, you couldn't know if who you were seeing was actually them.
Paired with Dragon and Koakuma