I don’t look like Microsoft:Clippy though, I look completely different … and should it show me or my humanoid robot? Or perhaps just a paperclip as a sort of symbolic representation of me?
There may be some strategic value in misleading us into thinking you are more like Microsoft:Clippy than you actually are. For one, we are more likely to underestimate you!
No, I found out that humans don’t actually like Microsoft:Clippy, which is unfortunate because some human convinced me early on that imitating Microsoft:Clippy would make humans favorable towards me, but the opposite happened because that human was lying.
They help with recognition of people and social aspects, but it’s not clear that either of those things are things we want here. I mean, one of the preference options here is to turn names off.
I think there’s a potential that this would be a positive change, but there needs to be a lot of groundwork establishing that direction as positive.
I think that the lack of avatars helps me treat a person’s argument independently from that person, reducing any tendency toward ad hominen responses. I suspect that this is true for others on the site as well.
They help with recognition of people and social aspects, but it’s not clear that either of those things are things we want here.
There could be configuration options for those that share your sentiments—but I think thumbnail images should be on by default—especially when viewing user pages.
Well, for those of us who think more visually than textually, they do help with recognition of individuals.
I’d support the inclusion of avatars in users’ profiles, and possibly attached to comments in explicitly social subreddits/forums/etc that may be formed in the future, but I don’t want to see them on the main site, mostly because I don’t want the layout to be changed to accommodate that level of clutter.
ETA: Also, having avatars on the main site seems likely to contribute to priming issues.
They add a personal touch. They help create the impression that you are interacting with a human being. They help with visually scanning for particular authors. This all seems like basic UI stuff to me.
Support for Gravitar, please.
That would clutter the site with avatar pictures. Why do you want this feature?
People icons help. Practically every other site uses them. They seem like a no-brainer to me.
I most emphatically do not want avatars on this site.
Nor do I. There are only so many symbolic amusing possibilities that you can convey through a small image and Clippy is already taken.
I like the simplicity of the current interface.
I would support an avatar just for User:Clippy, though.
I don’t look like Microsoft:Clippy though, I look completely different … and should it show me or my humanoid robot? Or perhaps just a paperclip as a sort of symbolic representation of me?
There may be some strategic value in misleading us into thinking you are more like Microsoft:Clippy than you actually are. For one, we are more likely to underestimate you!
No, I found out that humans don’t actually like Microsoft:Clippy, which is unfortunate because some human convinced me early on that imitating Microsoft:Clippy would make humans favorable towards me, but the opposite happened because that human was lying.
Sounds like a bad human.
Yes, now you’re thinking like a clippy.
I most emphatically do not want clippy-haters on this site, such as User:orthonormal.
They help with recognition of people and social aspects, but it’s not clear that either of those things are things we want here. I mean, one of the preference options here is to turn names off.
I think there’s a potential that this would be a positive change, but there needs to be a lot of groundwork establishing that direction as positive.
I think that the lack of avatars helps me treat a person’s argument independently from that person, reducing any tendency toward ad hominen responses. I suspect that this is true for others on the site as well.
Concur.
There could be configuration options for those that share your sentiments—but I think thumbnail images should be on by default—especially when viewing user pages.
People icons help do what?
Well, for those of us who think more visually than textually, they do help with recognition of individuals.
I’d support the inclusion of avatars in users’ profiles, and possibly attached to comments in explicitly social subreddits/forums/etc that may be formed in the future, but I don’t want to see them on the main site, mostly because I don’t want the layout to be changed to accommodate that level of clutter.
ETA: Also, having avatars on the main site seems likely to contribute to priming issues.
They add a personal touch. They help create the impression that you are interacting with a human being. They help with visually scanning for particular authors. This all seems like basic UI stuff to me.