Tilted Forum Project Discussion Community - View Single Post - Disable avatars on a per-user basis

Yakk · 04-29-2004, 10:29 AM

First, I find that people tend not to change avatars all that often. And those who tend to NSFW tend to NSFW.

A distributed system might be cute, but you really couldn't trust it anyhow, and the infrastructure would be much harder.

A 6 level system:
[ ] Show no avatars
[ ] Show only approved, unchanged avatars
[ ] Show only approved avatars
[ ] Hide only surpressed avatars
[ ] Hide only surpressed, unchanged avatars
[ ] Hide no avatars

You could make it simpler and have fewer levels. =)

You'd have a sparse mapping from {account->account}x{No flag, Hide, Show}. If the user never explicitly set an avatar to hide or show, you wouldn't even store it. This keeps storage down to a minimium.

Some users would show all avatars, and hide only ones they disliked. Some would hide all avatars, and show only ones they trusted. And some would hide/show everything, because they didn't care...

As an aside, someone browsing TFP can implement all of this using a web proxy. The date and user id of each avatar is in the avatar URL.

04-29-2004, 10:29 AM	#13 (permalink)
Yakk Wehret Den Anfängen! Location: Ontario, Canada	First, I find that people tend not to change avatars all that often. And those who tend to NSFW tend to NSFW. A distributed system might be cute, but you really couldn't trust it anyhow, and the infrastructure would be much harder. A 6 level system: [ ] Show no avatars [ ] Show only approved, unchanged avatars [ ] Show only approved avatars [ ] Hide only surpressed avatars [ ] Hide only surpressed, unchanged avatars [ ] Hide no avatars You could make it simpler and have fewer levels. =) You'd have a sparse mapping from {account->account}x{No flag, Hide, Show}. If the user never explicitly set an avatar to hide or show, you wouldn't even store it. This keeps storage down to a minimium. Some users would show all avatars, and hide only ones they disliked. Some would hide all avatars, and show only ones they trusted. And some would hide/show everything, because they didn't care... As an aside, someone browsing TFP can implement all of this using a web proxy. The date and user id of each avatar is in the avatar URL. __________________ Last edited by JHVH : 10-29-4004 BC at 09:00 PM. Reason: Time for a rest.