Yea that is pretty common to see user avatars and they are nice because you can kind of show your creativity with your avatar. However I do still like the idea of Armatars, the name is creative first of all and I think this system works as far as showing someone's status on the site with the armatar they have
I would like it if maybe you could use off-sight avatars but like had to get admin approval. Avatars usually need to express what you're like. for example a fan avatar or a guitar or something. maybe a game controller or a skull i dunno.
After the beta there will be a lot of users here, and then the admins won't have enough time to check any avatar, I think.
I believe the only ways are not to allow own avatars, or allow avatars and then do it like Soulful_Plain_Strider suggested.
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