You may have noticed that next to some people’s comments is a small picture of themselves, such as:
If you want a picture to appear next to your comments you need to do two things.
Feel free to post test comments below.
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20 Comments
What is the purpose of having a picture next to your comments? Does it give the comments greater or lesser validity? Does it make factual assertions more or less true? Or is it just vanity?
Tony Greaves
I think it’s mostly vanity
LiberalDating.com
I find it useful to quickly distinguish between different regular posters with the same name.
Nice! Testing 123 ….
Tony: people have a range of different reasons, but a good and common one is a parallel with fringe meetings at conference. Think how often when someone asks a question, people turn round to see who the person is who is speaking as they’re interested to know who is making the comments. People’s names next to comments aren’t always a full substitute for that, e.g. you may remember the face but not the name, or because there’s more than one person with the same or similar names (Geoff Payne being a good example).
WellI would prefer that first of all you insist on people using their real names. Having a picture of a cat doesn’t help much. (And cats would be barred from conference anyway).
Tony
Are Sea Harriers more acceptable than cats?
Sea Harrier – RIP. I miss that Harrier Waggle at air shows:-( And we won’t even be getting the F-35 B to compensate. But hopefully some big cat(apults).
Tony: if nothing else, so there’s half a chance of recognising someone when meeting them in person.
I like the LiberalDating.com idea.. if only I can get it to work..
@ Andrew – “I think it’s mostly vanity”
Agreed! :p
Well here is my comment. Vanity or not I’ve given it a go.
testing … 456 …
Total vanity…
eek – I’m not very comfortable with that big yellow banner….. that’ll take some getting used to!
For me it’s not about vanity by the way. It’s about standing by my comments and inviting people to ask more in person or in other forums as well as here.
This blog which demonstrates the ability of Liberal Democrats to construct robust arguments over a triviality makes me proud to be one of them. Takes the mind off election results
Trying out my image. Maybe it needs some processing!
Looks like I’ve got mine working. Thanks for the advice…
LS