Avatars are important, and they shouldn't be microscopic thumbnails

Cirno Strongest·9/17/2013, 7:14:47 PM·103 votes·7,611 views

My understanding is that you aim to build a better community with this and I think avatars are the one thing that the forums have lacked (now added on by a third party) that having implemented here would be nice. Due to the size of the league community, a sea of names makes it hard to recognize people however giving summoners the ability to set their own distinctive avatar makes it much easier for their fellow summoners to identify them even if they post less frequently (they need to be decently sized too).

98 Comments

Not Awful9/17/2013, 7:18:27 PM34 votes

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Vacus9/17/2013, 7:32:08 PM13 votes

I think it's fine to not allow users to set custom avatars. It would be abused. Constantly.

But I also agree that they need to be bigger and more noticeable.

AbiwonKenabi9/17/2013, 8:06:00 PM6 votes

Certainly the Reds need their icons to be back...I think someone already mentioned this in another thread, and a Red agreed.

I know I can always spot out Iron Stylus, Morello, etc just by glancing at their icon. It'd be nice to have that back, and not microscopic either >.-

Cirno Strongest9/17/2013, 8:24:30 PM5 votes

So because something can be abused we shouldn't have it? People can make inappropriate names, and they do, but when we see them we report them to Riot. We have the ability to post pictures and people have posted inappropriate pictures, but Riot does monitor for that stuff. Through an addon we can get custom avatars for the forums and yes, there has been abuse, however the very small team working on that has still managed to successfully moderate them. If such a limited team can do it then why can't Riot's much larger team do it?

Sir Frosthaven9/22/2013, 12:43:04 AM4 votes

I know you guys are probably going to laugh at me, but I do not believe that allowing fully customization avatars in any way is a good idea for companies in general for numerous reasons.

Tie the avatars to the user's game account, have a preset list of avatars to choose from, etc would be fine, but full on custom avatars is a pretty dangerous thing for a company to have to be responsible for.

SavageMinnow9/18/2013, 2:10:30 AM3 votes

Simply put, I'm not moving to a new forum unless it has avatars. I have FEK and most of the posters I give a damn about also have it. I'm not starting all over again with no avatars. If that means waiting for a FEK-like addon to be created for this, that's fine; but I don't like Riot's stance on avatars, at all.

DustyElLion9/17/2013, 8:29:43 PM3 votes

I'd say look at Battlelog. There you have total control over your avatar (its even a decent size) and yet you don't see much abuse because there's a report avatar button.

The argument about offensive avatars is a null issues because it is extremely easy for Riot to enforce there policy. It's already been demonstrated you can do this on Youtube, Battlelog, Facebook, and any number of public sites so why can't it be done here?

Kira Onime9/17/2013, 8:23:59 PM3 votes

Wouldn't hurt to add a pool of 30-40 default avatars. Choice is so limited right now.

Kinkshamed9/17/2013, 8:26:26 PM2 votes

How about instead of custom icons, there's preset icons with two options, 1. Use whatever your summoner icon is. it's just linked to your summoner profile. 2. A gallery of other preset icons outside from pvp.net to choose from. They can be champions, items, whatever. An icon for every champion would be great. Also, custom icons are abuse-able, but why are you guys acting like it'll become a zoo? With enough moderators, someone with a bad icon can be noticed and punished. There's no report option here as I noticed yet, but there should be penalties for inappropriate forum behavior that ban/suspend you from the forums. Anyway, a lot of forum communities I've seen have had a majority of sensible users using appropriate custom icons. If there's a penalty, most will try to keep their avatar clean.

Badministrator9/17/2013, 7:45:04 PM2 votes

I like this idea but I can see why it's scary. I don't want to open up the community page and see a bunch of disgusting nonsense avatars.

That said, Riot needs to put out even more summoner icons. I basically still only have the defaults and I'm not trying to rep any teams. I wasn't around for the freljord stuff so I'm stuck with this green hand. It's the worst.

innervation9/17/2013, 8:21:28 PM2 votes

Agree that they should be bigger, but I think that the decent sized pool of unique, prefab summoner icons are enough choices. This will be especially true if Riot keep adding new ones to buy/earn like they have been (holidays, LCS, worlds, season rewards, etc).

Eskimofo9/17/2013, 8:48:42 PM2 votes

my avatar is unique D: i approve of increasing the avatar size

Wezz9/18/2013, 2:24:14 AM2 votes

We could just ask frosthaven to add it in

Lunar Lightning9/17/2013, 8:03:19 PM1 votes

i agree

R2Shef212/3/2013, 3:45:02 AM1 votes

I agree with this. I am always seeing 3 or 4 of the same icons every game

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