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[LoveVolpe]

How do I set my avatar/profile picture?

[JB007YH]

I have the same question

[The Shark]

Profile > My Settings > General Account Settings > Change your photo...

[JB007YH]

I dont see the change your photo option. Is it only allowed once you post a certain amount of times?

[Chief of SIS]

I'm not sure if this is correct but if I recall, it's at a 1000 posts you get to post an avatar. The other way to do it I believe is link with a Facebook account or something but then it grabs the photo from there. I could be wrong but this is what I recall.

[JB007YH]

Thats what I thought. Personally I think its stupid, you should be able to have a pic from day one

[Jaws0178]

They do that because 1000 posts is something for you to work for. Once you become a vet, if I recall correctly, you can also have up to three signatures that you can interchange, unless that is no longer the case.

[Messervy]

Thats what I thought. Personally I think its stupid, you should be able to have a pic from day one

I think so too. One should be able to display a pic, just as in any other Forum. After all, we get to choose a name and all sorts of preference settings; a picture seems an obvious part of a Forumer's ID.
Maybe the new-shaped Forum will allow us that?

[Jaws0178]

Used to, you could have an avatar. I wonder if maybe that part has not been re set up yet for the new forum look.

[stromberg]

Setting an avatar is normally no problem. But currently, we're happy that the forums are up and running again at all.
We're working on getting everything back to normal asap. The user photo restriction is a relic of our strict copyright policy, could be that this will change.
Thanks for your patience.

[Dustin]

You guys are doing fine work. Thank you so much for your pains!

[LoveVolpe]

Thanks everyone. I could see 100 posts maybe but 1000 seems crazy. Oh well, I'll stay tuned.

[Messervy]

Setting an avatar is normally no problem. But currently, we're happy that the forums are up and running again at all.
We're working on getting everything back to normal asap. The user photo restriction is a relic of our strict copyright policy, could be that this will change.
Thanks for your patience.

Right you are. It's running great already.
I guess it's only natural that in the midst of the updating process some suggestions pop up on the side.
But in any case you've done a terrific work. It's much more user-friendly.

[col_007]

The user photo restriction is a relic of our strict copyright policy

So if i had an avatar of all the bonds would i be asked to remove it ????

[stromberg]

The user photo restriction is a relic of our strict copyright policy

So if i had an avatar of all the bonds would i be asked to remove it ????

Depends on the avatar. Off limits is basically everything that's Eon copyrighted, especially 007 gun logos, the classic Bond silhouettes, the gunbarrel, but also official posters, promoshots etc. Personally, I'd love to handle this less strict, but we've been in trouble because of such things before and it almost killed the site - we don't want to have that again.
If you manage to create an avatar that consists of non-Eon images of all Bonds, it shouldn't be a problem, unless we get a complaint from a copyright holder. We're currently working on a solution to bring back the old avatar galleries in some way. Thing is that what was meant as a quick board update turned out to be a major can of worms at the wrong time, as the whole structure of the boards has been changed by IPB and there has to be done a lot of work in the background.

[col_007]

The user photo restriction is a relic of our strict copyright policy

So if i had an avatar of all the bonds would i be asked to remove it ????

Depends on the avatar. Off limits is basically everything that's Eon copyrighted, especially 007 gun logos, the classic Bond silhouettes, the gunbarrel, but also official posters, promoshots etc. Personally, I'd love to handle this less strict, but we've been in trouble because of such things before and it almost killed the site - we don't want to have that again.
If you manage to create an avatar that consists of non-Eon images of all Bonds, it shouldn't be a problem, unless we get a complaint from a copyright holder. We're currently working on a solution to bring back the old avatar galleries in some way. Thing is that what was meant as a quick board update turned out to be a major can of worms at the wrong time, as the whole structure of the boards has been changed by IPB and there has to be done a lot of work in the background.

OK many thanks for the reply it was a picture with all the bonds posing with there guns a friend of mine made it for me in a few years back

Edited by col_007, 03 January 2012 - 10:16 PM.

[OwenDavian]

So you still can't upload an avatar?

[larrythefatcat]

1000 posts!? I don't have that much time to waste on these forums!

[Dustin]

I'm not around that long, too. But you guys can upload an image by your twitter/facebook accounts.

[Messervy]

Team, is there any new development on the possibility to set an avatar?

[S K Y F A L L]

Team, is there any new development on the possibility to set an avatar?

I started a https://en.gravatar.com/ account and added it as my website in my profile settings.

[AgentBentley]

OK, I was just wondering how to upload an avatar, going through the Help list, and so on. Now I understand.
I took a picture of a Skyfall poster outside an Omega shop that I thought would make a good avatar on here. Will try the Twitter/Facebook method later.

[B5Erik]

I still can't upload an Avatar pic.

Is it still stuck to the 1,000 posts thing? Because if it is I could always just start posting a bunch of nonsense to get to the 1,000 posts quickly....

Between the two accounts I've had I'm pretty close to 1,000 posts, but I couldn't access my initial account for a couple years for some reason (I wasn't banned or anything, but I couldn't get the right e-mail/password combo to work) so I created a second one that I used until I was able to get into the first one again.

[Shaun Forever]

I think it's a massive shame that we cannot use official images, but I understand and will co-operate with the rule completely.

 

 

You'd think that powers that be at MGM, Eon or whoever would turn a blind eye to it, after all we are all just James Bond fans, showing

our passion for the series, it's not as if we would ever sell the images, or hot-link from them.

 

It's like a lot of the football (soccer) forums I go on, don't allow images of the club badges, for fear or prosecution, I just think that's a great

shame, after all, where would they be without the fans?

 

 

Still, I know there's nothing the admin team on here can do about it, so I don't want you all to think I'm complaining.

[supernova]

I had an avatar on the day I joined Commander Bond, but now that you have a 1,000 post policy - my avatar as disappeared. Such a pity. Hope you guys rethink your policy on this as I have under 300 posts and am a LONG way off target.

[Dustin]

You have the option to use an avatar connected to your twitter/Facebook account, regardless of your post count.

[seawolfnyy]

That's what I did.