Theory as to why many veteran posters use just the default avatar

[PlanetJosh]

The default avatar, which is the cardboard man looking thing. I think for most frequent or older posters who don't have a different avatar is because it's too much of a hassle to create your own or go fumbling around the net on sites that supply them. And afaik you can't choose a pre made avatar in your profile settings. Anyway I hope I'm wrong about the settings and I can just plop one in from this site.

I don't feel like searching the net for the right size avatar and certainly not going to make my own.
Edit: nm, added an avatar.

 

[deustroop]

Uh Oh !

 

[PlanetJosh]

No need for me to Google for an avatar. I just use a link from you guys in the thread for the proper size ones. And thank you.

 

[KMFJD]

Hmmm never thought of changing it, hows this?

 

[local]

I spent way too much time making the default one square just to discover the alternate themes that made them square...

 

[Crono]

More users did have custom but gave up or haven't gotten around to changing it after a Xenforo update screwed up the uploaded ones a while back. Plenty of people did use one of the included avatars back in the vBulletin and Fusetalk days (the infamous default/spammer "black man" avatar).

 

[feralkid]

That's really more of a hypothesis than a theory.

 

[FeuerFrei]

As soon as I found a circular avatar, they switched the forums to square. It's all circles now though.

 

[olds]

These forums change software and owners too much to keep picking avatars.

 

[MrSquished]

My avatar is wonderful

 

[WaTaGuMp]

Witch > all

Except bobo's

 

[tynopik]

is it apathy or ignorance?

i don't know and i don't care

 

[ISAslot]

Cardboard man? It's a toilet logo. Make more sense now?

 

[RLGL]

lazy

 

[theknight571]

Cardboard man? It's a toilet logo. Make more sense now?

LOL... Now all I see is a toilet. I'll have to find a new one now, thanks.

Edit: Selected new Avatar.

 

[nakedfrog]

Hmmm never thought of changing it, hows this?

Is that Bob Marley with a blue Yoda in his backpack?

 

[Anubis]

who shot who in the what now?

 

[nakedfrog]

Maggie did it.

 

[interchange]

Your stated intention was to explain why veteran posters use the default avatar. And you provided instead a hypothesis of why any poster would use the default avatar without providing any explain as to the difference between veteran and non-veteran posters.

I doubt that you consciously set yourself up like that, which makes me wonder why you did so unconsciously.

(Plus I actually think somewhere in your mind is a theory of what makes veteran and non-veteran posters different in regards to selecting an avatar.)

 

[Carson Dyle]

Weird.

 

[PlanetJosh]

Ok I fumbled around on Google and got a 200x200 pixel one.
Edit: Ok changed to the old man.

 

[bigboxes]

Witch > all

Except bobo's

Boxes rulez

 

[Printer Bandit]

i removed my avatar in case people at work saw my screen.

 

[DaveSimmons]

I'll get around to it . . . eventually.

 

[AznAnarchy99]

I miss the black man.